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 7 February - 1 April 2002
'If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and
there I am. There's nothing behind it.'
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Andy Warhol
210 Coca Cola Bottles 1962
Daros Collection, Switzerland
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / ARS, NY
and DACS, London 2002
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More than any other artist of his generation, Warhol showed us that the ubiquitous imagery of mass
culture had come to reflect and shape contemporary life. Coca-Cola bottles, newspaper photographs of car
crashes and of the empty desolation of the death chamber are as closely associated with Warhol as they
are with America. This powerful subject matter, however, has often obscured his radical explorations into
different media. He painted and drew with silkscreen, made moving film images appear still, stitched together
identical photographs, and filled a room with silver balloons. His life's project was to explore the aesthetic and
cultural associations of the term 'media', questioning structural boundaries in a way now heralded by some
as 'post-medium'.
This exhibition was organised by the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, where it was curated by Heiner Bastian.
The Tate Modern presentation is curated by Donna De Salvo.
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Media partner: The Guardian
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