Warhol exhibit to hit Asia
The Andy Warhol Museum has announced that a retrospective of his work will be traveling throughout Asia beginning with a show in Singapore on March 17th. It will be the largest, most comprehensive exhibit of his work ever to hit the continent. Featuring work that spans his career, the show will feature greatest hits such as Silver Liz (1963), Jackie (1964), Marilyn (1967) and Self Portrait (1986). Most interesting among the celebrity print series is the 1972 work Mao. With stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the cultural implications of the late chairman's veneration at the hands of a Westerner is fascinating to contemplate.
No less interesting to mull over are the reproductions of iconic American consumer goods that litter the Warhol oeuvre, most famously his blood-red Campbell's soup can prints. Stripped of their subtext a soup can is just a soup can – an irony Warhol himself would have enjoyed.
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