Journey into the artistic and human universe of Andy Warhol

by time news

Time.news – C’è l’Andy Warhol religious stranger who deepens in his art the relationship with the sacred, he has always been a practicing Catholic, who draws a Mother-Madonna with child or the homage to Sant’Apollonia. And there is the Warhol universally known as social commentator with his most famous works, such as the Marilyn Monroe, several examples of Flowers, including a rare one on paper, the Mao, the Cows, and the Campbells soup cans.

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Beyond 300 works, almost all unique such as canvases, serigraphs on silk, cotton and paper, as well as drawings, photographs, original discs, make the very rich exhibition unmissable “Andy Warhol. The advertising of the form“, promoted and produced by the Municipality of Milan – Culture and Navigation, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva con Edoardo Falcioni for Art Motors, Partner BMW and Hublot, which from 22 October to 26 March, is open to the public, at the Fabbrica del Vapor di Milano.

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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BMW requested by Warhol

There is the BMW that Warhol painted by hand

The exhibition is a journey into the artistic and human universe of one of the artists who have the most innovated the history of world art. That this is an exceptional project can already be understood from the first room, when one is in front of one Bmw hand painted by Andy Warhol in ’79, when in just 28 minutes he applied 6 kilos of color. And there is also a video that testifies the birth of this supercar that bears his signature.

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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“Warhol – Bonito Oliva intervened – is the Raphael of the American mass society who gives surface to every depth of the image, thus making it immediately usable, ready for consumption like any product that crowds our daily life. In this way he develops an unprecedented classicism in his aesthetic transformation. Thus the advertising of the form creates the epiphany, that is, the apparition, of the image ”.

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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from left Eugenio Falcioni, Achille Bonito Oliva, Edoardo Falcioni

As he explained to the Time.news, Edoardo Falcionito fully understand the protagonist of pop art, we begin with “a full immersion in his works from the 1950s, when he expressed himself as a very fine advertising graphic, draftsman, illustrator ”for magazines: on display we find the drawings of a ring, earrings and a cake, which show his skill. Portraits of men and shoe designs. At the beginning of his career, shoes were his income. “In his book he tells that he designed them for magazines and remembers that he had to count his shoes to calculate his profits.”

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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Then everything changed in the following years when he moved to New York, and dal ’60 began portraying advertisements on the canvas. The Warhol commentator of American society is also found in the section ‘disasters’, where electric chairs, traffic accidents, and several Jackie Kennedys are exhibited, previously smiling, as in ‘Jackie smile‘and then sad, at John’s funeral.

In the interesting sector of 70’s “There is a bipartition: Warhol between marginalization and celebrity. Here is one of the most fascinating series dedicated to ‘Ladies and Gentlemen‘for which Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote the text, he did it for a Milanese exhibition in 1975 in which Warhol presented these works. The artist managed to transform the archetype of marginalization par excellence, the drag queen, in celebrity like Marilyn Monroe and the other stars ”explains Falcioni.

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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Given the vastness of the works on display, we ask the expert for help on what are the curiosities? And there are many. Do not miss “one of the Marilyns, the black one, which still has the original frame of Warhol’s framer of ’67”. The Polaroid, from which his works later came to life. The Commodore Amiga 2000 computer. There is also a “Flower on Halston fabric that belonged to the private collection of Keith Haring, his great friend”.

And under a display case “documents never exhibited, on the first exhibition of ’75 in Ferrara. From the papers it emerges that it had to be done in Milan but it was not possible to find an agreement with the Municipality. There is the catalog of that exhibition dedicated to the curator of the time, Janus.

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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And there is the series ‘Andy Warhol in drag’: “Seven years after making the transvestites he decided to have himself portrayed as a transvestite. There are also two polaroids showing Christopher Makos helping him get ready. “

On the walls of the Steam Factory, dozens of celebrities, such as Liz Taylor, Joseph Beuys, Man Ray, and Caroline of Monaco, wink, colored. “One of his also appears self-portrait of ’77. It is Warhol himself who becomes a celebrity, a very rare and never exhibited piece “. In this careful work, the “faithful reconstruction of its first Factory.

Andy Warhol exhibitions in Milan, over 300 works

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“It is extraordinary to have the preparatory study for the album on display ‘Sticky Fingers’oh you ‘Love you live‘for the Rolling Stones, with the autographed LP.

The path ends with the ‘sacred and profane’, where the canvas “Repent and sin no more“. And an “original acetate that shows the artist shortly before dying, as a sort of spiritual semi God: the father of this popular art, pop art”.

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