More than 80 pieces spanning the career of pop art legend Andy Warhol will show at the Art Gallery of Alberta this summer.
The collection, direct from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, includes some of the influential artist’s most famous works, including a selection of his Campbell’s soup cans, celebrity portraits including Sixteen Jackies and a series of Fright Wig self-portraits on Polaroid. Much of Warhol’s film work will also be on display, including an excerpt of Sleep, a long-take 1963 film of poet John Giorno on a couch.
The AGA’s chief curator Catherine Crowston says Warhol was the rare artist whose work changed what art could be, using methods like silkscreen printing to take art out of the painter’s hand.
“The show is broad in scope. It includes early work from the ’50s,” Crowston says. “There’s also some transitional works that show the move from what would be an abstract painterly tradition to one where he defines what pop art is.”
The Warhol exhibit, which opens May 28, will take up the entirety of the one-year-old gallery’s third floor. Later this summer, a show featuring conceptual Canadian art created between 1965 and 1980 will open on the other floors. “Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada” opens on June 25.
“Having the two shows together is an attempt to look at the radical shifts in artmaking that happened in the 1960s,” Crowston says.
The exhibition is the largest Warhol collection ever shown in Edmonton, and Edmonton is its only Canadian stop.
The gallery will be collecting soup cans for the food bank and working with Fat Franks to create a Warhol-themed hotdog to promote the show. They will also be throwing their own factory party at the gallery the evening of June 4. Guests will get the opportunity to make silkscreens, shoot their own screen tests and contribute to a time capsule.
“Andy Warhol: Manufactured” runs May 28 to Aug 21.
The show is sponsored by energy company Enbridge, which has struck a three-year partnership to fund whatever modern, contemporary or Canadian shows the AGA endeavours to bring to the city.
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