Andy Warhol - Motion pictures

Andy Warhol Screen Test: Beverly Grant, 1964 16mm film, černobílý, němý, délka 4 minuty při rychlosti 16 obrázků za sekundu / 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second ©2009 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved Warhol’s Movies in the Rudolfinum Gallery “Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures” focuses on the artist's screen tests and non-narrative films from between 1963 and 1973. Andy Warhol’s films are sometimes unjustly perceived as nothing but additions to his paintings. But watch the most famous films “Dracula” and “Flesh”, originating from the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, which would not come to light without Warhol’s collaborators from the New York Factory! Warhol experimented with film camera from 1963, when he created his most radical films like the legendary, several hours’ shot of the Empire State Building. The present exhibition is the first one to present to the Czech viewers Warhol’s early films in which the main role is played by the artist’s fascination by recording the time. These are films like “Sleep” (1963), where we watch a sleeping man for several hours, or the series of “Screen Tests” from between 1964 and 1966, in which Warhol frontally captured faces of his friends like Dennis Hopper, Walter Burne, Piero Heliczer and James Rosenquist. The films screened at the exhibition can be seen today on a larger scale thanks to digitalisation in large-screen projection, in the form of suspended tableaux. This exhibition enables the viewer to essentially view the films, most of which have never been displayed alongside their counterparts. The exhibition, held in the Prague Rudolfinum Gallery, was organized by the New York MoMA and the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol, “Motion Pictures” Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague 30 January 2009 – 5 April 2009 Popisek 01 Andy Warhol Screen Test: Beverly Grant, 1964 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second © 2009 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved