In the crowded Gallery of the Institute (Zaprokul), an exhibition was opened, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the death of one of the most famous artists of the pop art direction, Andy Warhol, who marked the second half of the 20th century, called Warhol – Polaroids and Portraits.
The exhibition was opened by Vladimir Tomčić, an art historian who said about the Warhol phenomenon: “Time is the measure of everything. Last year, after so many years since his death, one of his paintings of the famous Marilyn Monroe, was sold for an incredible 190 million dollars, which is the second highest figure in the world allocated for a work of art. I mention this because he was often contested and unloved. A market that is vulgar, that is the way it is, is still a criterion that speaks volumes.”
The director of Zaprokul, Marko Krstić, emphasized that: “the idea of the exhibition was to provoke the public to look at Warhol from a different angle, not the usual and canonized one, to distance ourselves from the fact that he is a man who created great brands, and to bring him back to himself. Warhol grew up in a religious family, and he was no stranger to religious art. In Andy, we can even trace the admixture of Byzantine art, because medieval artists never signed themselves. Not a single picture that Warhol painted shows us his signature. He lived his whole life in hiding.”
The exhibition includes Warhol’s portraits and self-portraits in the form of collages that show the development path of the artist and his entire life, a life-size sculpture of Warhol by the famous sculptor Svetozar Radović and a video work – a production on the screen that shows his works with the voice of the narrator.
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN FOR VISITORS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 8th
ON WORKING DAYS FROM 9 AM TO 5 PM,
RIGE OD FERA 4
ENTRANCE IS FREE
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