Warhol: Larger than Life at the WAG

Waaah! THIS IS EXCITING!!! And I thought they wouldn't have a MAJOR exhibition this year!

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WARHOL: LARGER THAN LIFE
October 5, 2007 to January 6, 2008

Andy Warhol will literally be making the WAG POP this Fall in our season's feature exhibition, Warhol: Larger than Life.

Credited as one of the major artistic innovators of the 20th century, Warhol's fame spread well beyond painting and printmaking. Filmmaker, sculptor, author, collector, publisher, provocateur, music producer, celebrity—Warhol understood and negotiated the ride of fame, a sophisticated arbiter and manipulator of popular culture and fashion.

Warhol: Larger than Life examines the entirety of the artist's career. Its Larger than Life focus considers three main issues: the elevation of everyday subject matter to the sphere of "fine art," the celebration of celebrities and their larger than life existences, and finally, the creation of Andy Warhol—his metamorphosis from Andrew Warhola, a sickly young boy from a poor neighbourhood in depression-era Pittsburgh to the New York. trendsetter. Of interest to Canadian audiences, the exhibition also explores Warhol's contact with this country, be it in terms of events, exhibitions, celebrities, or controversy.

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