Andy Warhol exhibited in Rome

Rome - Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art, gets his first major monographic exhibition in Rome.

This exhibition is a sequel made after its highly successful period at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where it attracted more than 225.000 visitors and was highly acclaimed by the critics.

From 18 April until 28 September 2014,  150 art works by the American artist are on display at the Museo Fondazione Roma, Palazzo Cipolla.

As Francesco Bonami says “the exhibition provides a very rare opportunity for the public to see one of the most important collections of work by this American artist ... built up not by an ordinary, albeit passionate collector, but by a great personality, Peter Brant, one of Warholʼs closest friends, with whom he experienced New Yorkʼs most artistically and culturally dynamic period in the 1960s and 1970s".

Warhol died in 1987, after having miraculously escaped the grim reaper in 1968 when a “radical feminist" shot him in the stomach. Andy Warhol was not only a sharp observer of mass society and consumerism and a brilliant sociologist of 1960s America, but he also succeeded in transforming the fetishes of the collective American imagination into art, anticipating the power that would be achieved by the mass media.

He turned Coca Cola, Elvis Presley, Campbellʼs Soup, Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, the dollar bill and Jackie Kennedy into icons.