Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen is a one-of-a-kind exhibition about the eccentric filmmaker featuring a lifetime of memorabilia including film, television and video work as well as drawings, screen prints and photos.
The exhibition has been organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and is presented in collaboration with TIFF. This season’s flagship exhibition, Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen traces the artist’s journey from starstruck to starmaker, interweaving the copious collections of Hollywood memorabilia that Warhol amassed over his lifetime including 8x10s, magazines, posters, and costume pieces.
The display digs right into “the depth of his obsession with celebrity culture and how that really affected all of his work throughout his entire life, from his childhood to 1987 when he died, in every medium he worked with,” Laurel MacMillan, TIFF’s director of exhibitions, told CBC News on Wednesday during a media preview. “He became a superstar himself, so this obsession with celebrity was something incredible. To see that, in the depth of the collection coming from the Warhol museum, is amazing.”
Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen opens on October 30th only at TIFF Bell Lightbox (Reitman Square, 350 King St West) inside the HSBC Gallery.
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