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Andy Warhol in Los Angeles
Opened recently in the Californian megalopolis is the biggest ever retrospective dedicated to Andy Warhol to be organised in the US in the last thirty years. 250 paintings are on display including the well known portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Mao, Elvis, Liz Taylor, the Campbell soup cans and his famous self portrait. The Los Angeles retrospective will cover the entire artistic life of this major exponent of Pop Art from the first rare drawings made in the forties up until his last piece made in 1986 “The Last Supper”, Warhol’s original homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting.
Particularly interesting are the paintings of “disaster” – which deal with iconic subjects such as suicide, the electric chair and street accidents – and a selection of work from his younger phase which has seldom been shown to the public, including “The Most Wanted Men”.
To complete and enhance the exhibition is a series of film showings, documenting the cinematic work by the American artist who made a number of experimental movies, both silent and with sound such as “Empire” from 1964 and “Blue Movie” from 1968.
until 18.8.2002 Andy Warhol Retrospective MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles T +39-213-6266222 F +39-213-6208674 http://www.moca-la.org
