Transmitting Andy Warhol – Tate Liverpool

Andy Warhol
[no title] 1967
Screenprint on paper
image: 910 x 910 mm
Purchased 1971 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./ARS, NY and DACS, London 2009

Transmitting Andy Warhol – Tate Liverpool ‘Transmitting Andy Warhol’ is the first exhibition to explore Warhol’s role in establishing new platforms to disseminate art, and his experimentation with new approaches to art reception that redefined artistic practice and distribution.

Tate Liverpool, 7 November 2014 – 8 February 2015.

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Source: Tate Liverpool

The first major solo exhibition in the north of England that focuses on Warhol’s expanded practice, it brings together more than 100 works, across a range of media with major paintings to explore Warhol’s experiments with mass-produced imagery. He ‘transmitted’ these images back into the public realm using processes of serial repetition and mass dispersal, establishing new approaches to distribute his work. Warhol’s transmission of ideas and imagery brought to life his democratic conviction that ‘art should be for everyone’.

Highlights include the “Marilyn Diptych”, “Dance Diagram” and Do-it-Yourself paintings, and other loans from international collections and the ARTIST ROOMS collection. Also presented is a spectacular evocation of the “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”, Warhol’s famed ‘total art’ environment which provided the framework for performances by the Velvet Underground.

“Transmitting Andy Warhol” provides audiences with new insights into the breadth of his artistic processes and philosophies, as well as the social, political and aesthetic implications of his practice. Warhol’s expanding of the networks for distributing art is especially important today in an era when digital media offers artists, as well as any member of the public, boundless possibilities of distributing information, images and ideas. By presenting Warhol in the context of the mass information networks of his time, the exhibition reveals the artist’s role in re-defining access to culture and art as we understand it today, while challenging the traditional separation between high and low culture, and private and mass experience.

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