APOLLO
By Matthew Holman
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| Detail of Camouflage Last Supper (1986), Andy Warhol. |
It is often repeated that to see one Warhol is to see them all. And, in turning reproducibility into an art form, isn’t that half Warhol’s point? Yet at the Whitney’s spectacular survey of his work, ‘Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again’, nothing feels further from the truth. This exhibition of some 350 works opens with the headliners, a room dedicated to the silk-screened images that have made Warhol an instantly recognisable Pop superstar: the Brillo pads, Campbell soup cans, and Coca-Cola bottles. But the central achievement of this exhibition is how it frames Warhol before and after his 1960s heyday and demonstrates the complexities of his oeuvre – settling the question of whether we have exhausted ways of seeing his work. [
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| Camouflage Last Supper (1986), Andy Warhol. Private collection. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York |
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| Paramount (1984–85), Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Private collection. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York |
