Silver Factory > Andy Warhol's New York Studio Recreated in Beirut > @qcontemporary

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe
 Screen-print on white paper,
 1967,  
36" x 36" 
Edition of 250, signed in pencil and numbered with rubber stamp on verso;  
Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc./Du-Art Displays, New York Publisher: Factory Additions, New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To celebrate its 3^rd anniversary, Q will bring back the American swinging sixties by re-creating Andy Warhol’s New York studio “The Factory” in Beirut featuring one of Warhol’s most iconic artwork: the original Marilyn Monroe-series from 1967.

Andy Warhol (1928 -1987) was a leading artist in the visual art movement known as Pop art, a movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades. His works explored the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.

Staying true to the artist’s bold personality, Q will be transformed into “The Factory”, Warhol's original New York Studio from 1962 to 1968. In this period, he created numerous “mass-produced” images from photographs of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Onassis. In this famous Marilyn artwork on display, Warhol merged art with the culture of mass production. By creating multiples of her icon image Warhol transformed pop culture into art. Fascinated by death and the cult of celebrity, Warhol generated brash, assembly-line paintings of Monroe symbolizing the mortal behind the myth, and her widespread presence in the media. 

The work exhibited is on loan from the collection of Emmanuel Javogue, an internationally celebrated art collector and curator. Over the last three decades as an owner of several Parisian galleries he had launched artists such as Basquiat, Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, and Dennis Oppenheim. In addition he was dealing in modern masters like Picasso, Matisse, Dali and Renoir.  Hailed as one of the first purveyor of Western art into Shanghai (China) in the early nineties.  He was also behind stellar museums exhibitions in Vienna such as “Jean Michel Basquiat works on paper” at the National gallery of Klagenfurt.  Next year he will be curating the Biennale of Costa Rica where he has been living over the last 7 years.

The Silver Factory

Q Contemporary - Beirut

November 13-17 2012