Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp / Andy Warhol at The Andy Warhol Museum on artrepublic.com
Exhibition running from May 23 2010
until Sep 12 2010
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are among the most influential artists of the 20th century, and their influence continues to grow among contemporary artists in the 21st century. Both artists' early works were notorious and iconoclastic in their eras but are recognized now as important touchstones of modern art history. These include Duchamp’s Dada Fountain (1917) and Warhol’s Pop Art Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962). Among their shared interests and themes are optical-effect experiments, language and puns, pseudonyms, sexuality, identity and role-playing, money, fame and death. To generate new art, both Duchamp and Warhol mined their personal archives and recycled their previous works. In other equally interesting ways, the artists are in complete opposition. Duchamp may have held more influence on Warhol than any other artist. While their connection has often been described in writing, the museum’s archivist and curator of the exhibition, Matt Wrbican, has had the advantage of studying Warhol’s personal papers to present Warhol’s great interest in and indebtedness to Duchamp. “These two artists are a bit like the Giotto and Michelangelo of modern and contemporary art,” said Wrbican, “and the number of connections that can be made between their works is quite surprising.” This exhibition consists of more than 40 works in various media by each of the two artists, which show clear relationships between them. The paired works echo each other across decades in a variety of media, including film, painting, sculpture, installation, published works, and ephemeral and written statements. The artists even posed for similar photographs. Many of the Duchamp works in the exhibition are on loan from the Moderna Museet of Stockholm, one of the largest collections in the world of Duchamp’s work. Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, is also a very generous lender and a valuable resource in other ways. Nearly all of the Warhol works are drawn from the Warhol Museum’s collections of art, film and video, and archives. The Warhol thanks these additional important lenders to the exhibition: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection; Carroll Janis, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Marion Meyer Contemporain, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Andrew L. Terner, Inc.;Jay Reeg; and other private collections. OPENING HOURS: Tue, Wed, Thur, Sat and Sun: 10.00 – 17.00 Fir: 10.00 – 22.00 Image Credits: Andy Warhol, 100 Cans, 1962, Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr. ©2010 AWF Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, Photo Moderna Museet - Stockholm Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa, ca. 1979,C AWF, Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919,  |
