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of the french press relations for the Musée des beaux-arts
de Montréal, Canada.
Montreal, September 23, 2008 – For the
first time in the historiography of Andy Warhol (1928-1987),
the exhibition-event Warhol Live, presented from September
25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, explores the all-pervading
and fundamental role of music and dance in the artist’s
work and life. Music is an essential narrative element that
is present throughout the exhibition and will guide visitors
as they rediscover Warhol’s work. From this unusual
angle, viewers are treated to a chronological and thematic
reading, from the film music Warhol discovered in his youth
to the disco scene at Studio 54, the legendary nightclub that
opened in 1977, where he was one of the most famous regulars.
The exhibition brings together some 640 works and objects,
paintings, silkscreens, photographs, works on paper, installations,
films, videos, album covers, as well as objects and documents
from the artist’s personal archives. It juxtaposes Warhol’s
major emblematic works (Elvis, Marilyn, Liza Minnelli, Grace
Jones, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, the Self-portraits and the
Campbell's Soup Cans) with other, lesser-known works (album
covers, illustrations, photos and Polaroids). There are also
the artist’s films, including Sleep and Empire, as well
as the Screen Tests of the musicians of the famous Velvet
Underground, Andy Warhol’s TV and video clips produced
for groups like the Cars and Curiosity Killed the Cat. The
exhibition Warhol Live is produced by the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum, one
of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
The works come from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and
from leading public and private collections in Europe and
North America. A collection of some fifty album covers belonging
to Montreal collector Paul Maréchal is presented together
for the first time. It includes The Velvet Underground &
Nico, Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones), Love You Live (Rolling
Stones), Silk Electric (Diana Ross), Aretha (Aretha Franklin)
and Rockbird (Debbie Harry).
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