Warhol's connection to pop and youth culture on show
The most comprehensive exhibition of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) in China, on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), is currently under way at UCCA Edge.
"Becoming Andy Warhol" features nearly 400 drawings, paintings, photographs and films by the American artist. Some of the works are being displayed for the first time outside the museum in the United States.
The exhibition, which ends on March 6, showcases Warhol's innovative and versatile artistic legacy with a holistic understanding of his life and prolific output. It includes both representative and lesser-known works from various phases and aspects of his career, asserting his anticipation of hybridity and repetition as primary influences in contemporary visual culture.
Structured into five sections, the exhibition crafts a non-linear exploration of the artist's life and career through these works.
Visitors will find Warhol's early drawings and historical photographs in the first section of "Origin," which includes photos during his middle school days with his classmates.
The highlight of the exhibition is in the last section, "The Immaterial", which explores Warhol's confrontation with the spiritual and his focus on abstraction and conceptual art near the end of his life, in series such as "Camouflage" (1986) and "Rorschach" (1984).
According to the organizer, the exhibition tries to refresh the particular relevance of Warhol's connection to contemporary pop culture, communication, and youth culture in his ravenous, generative approach to a wide range of media – fine art, commercial illustration, experimental filmmaking and masterful appropriation.
The exhibition includes both representative and lesser-known works from various phases and aspects of Andy Warhol's career.
Exhibition info
Dates: Through March 6 (closed on Mondays), 10am-7pm
Ticket: 100 yuan
Venue: UCCA Edge
盈凯文创广场
Address: 2F, 88 Xizang Road N.
西藏北路88号2层
