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13/2/2004

Andy Warhol

Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

The Late Work

Andy Warhol is one of the most influential and charismatic personalities in the world of 20th century art. In the early 1960s he became one of the icons of Pop Art. But in addition to the well-known pictures of Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, he created since 1972 numerous ambitious works which have more rarely been seen by the public hitherto.

This exhibition of more than 100 paintings, along with numerous previously unpublished photographs, videos and film, represents a first opportunity to explore the extensive "late work" of Andy Warhol in all its rich variety. After he claimed to have given up painting, the series of Mao portraits of 1972 represented for Andy Warhol the start of an intensive confrontation with this medium. It is characterized first of all by the combination of the silk-screen print with a texture created by a free painterly gesture, and use of color.

Alongside numerous innovations in his painting, Andy Warhol also extended and deepened his artistic repertoire in the photographic, video and film media. This exhibition presents for the first time a large number of his contact prints, which convey an intimate insight into the New York of the 1980s, thus showing Andy Warhol once more in the role of social observer. As a further autobiographical aspect, the exhibition integrates Andy Warhol's books and interviews. The conversations which Andy Warhol himself had with various artists and celebrities for his magazine "Interview" complement the spectrum of confrontation with his immediate environment and thus round off the picture of our view of him as the great "Recording Angel" of his epoch.

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