Andy Warhol: Motion Pctures
From 30/01/2008 to 04/04/2008
This exhibition was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in cooperation with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. It takes place under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.curator: Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, New York) Andy Warhol - Motion PicturesThis exhibition was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in cooperation with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. It takes place under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.curator: Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, New York)30. 1. 2009 - 5. 4. 2009 Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures focuses on the artist's screen tests and non-narrative films from 1963-73. Within it we see sequences of his ?most beautiful women? - screen tests featuring ?Baby? Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Edie Sedgwick - and other works that showcase a parade of friends, actors, and models - Dennis Hopper, James Rosenquist, and Walter Burn to name just a few. This collection of tests is followed by the artist's non-narrative films including Eat, Sleep, Kiss, and Blow Job. His films and videos capture the rich and raw texture of the fertile cultural milieu in which he lived and worked, and are crucial to the understanding of Warhol's work in other media. Prolific, mercurial, thought-provoking, charming, engaging, dynamic, confusing - just like the artist himself, Andy Warhol's films explore the gamut of human emotion. The exhibition is a unique collection of twenty experimental silent, black and white films from the 1960s, which we can only see on a larger scale today thanks to digitalisation in large-screen projection, in the form of suspended tableaux. This exhibition enables the viewer to essentially view the films, most of which have never been displayed alongside their counterparts.