Warhol’s Wide World at Grand Palais
http://www.ivyparisnews.com/2009/03/warhols-wide-world-at-grand-palais.html
March 18 through July 13, 2009
Andy Warhol comes to Paris in a major exhibition of his trademark society portraits
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2009-03/18/content_7591090.htm
PARIS- Andy Warhol comes to Paris in a major exhibition of his trademark society portraits but a famous image of Yves Saint Laurent will be missing after a dispute over whether the late couturier was an artist or a mere designer.
"Warhol's Wide World," which opens this week, presents some 140 of the 1,000 or so portraits of actors, stars and assorted jet set personalities turned out by the "Pope of Pop" from the 1960s until his death in 1987.
Based on existing photographs or created with a specially designed Polaroid camera, Warhol's garishly tinted pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy or Saint Laurent became icons in the modern cult of celebrity.
Along with his Campbell's Soup can, they are some of the best-known images in modern art and the exhibition is expected to be one of the biggest of the year.
Warhol once remarked that he wanted all his portraits to fit together and make one big painting called "Portraits of Society" and exhibition curator Alain Cueff regretted that it had not been practical to do so.
"It would be wonderful to recreate the dream of Warhol, to have 1,000 portraits of people just like that but it was quite impossible, I'm afraid," he said.
Even so, the Grand Palais, a vast hall created for the Great Exhibition of 1900, has been lined with some of the most famous faces of the era, from stars like Monroe or Mick Jagger to artists like Man Ray or fashion designers like Giorgio Armani.
Présentation de l’expo Warhol
http://www.rmn.fr/Presentation-de-l-expo-Warhol
En 1962, Andy Warhol peint les portraits de Marilyn Monroe, de sa rivale Liz Taylor, réinterprète La Joconde et Elvis Presley. A partir de 1967 et jusqu’à sa mort en 1987, il réalise, sur commande, les portraits de dizaines de personnalités diverses, célèbres ou inconnues, offrant à un monde fasciné par les apparences un miroir flatteur et vertigineux. Il remettait ainsi à l’honneur un genre négligé, en y appliquant de nouveaux codes qui marqueront très profondément l’histoire du portrait.
Aux côtés de stars du cinéma et de la musique (Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone), on trouve aussi des portraits d’artistes (Man Ray, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Keith Haring), de collectionneurs et de marchands (Dominique de Ménil, Bruno Bischofberger, Ileana Sonnabend, Leo Castelli), d’hommes politiques (Willy Brandt, Edward Kennedy), de couturiers (Yves Saint-Laurent, Sonia Rykiel, Hélène Rochas), de personnalités de la jet-set (Gianni Agnelli, Lee Radziwill, la princesse de Monaco, Gunther Sachs) connus ou moins connus, tous y gagnent un peu de cette aura que procure le génie de Warhol.
Warhol's "Wide World" hits Paris
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Mar. 18 - The exhibition "Wide World" at Paris Grand Palais is already shaping up as one of the biggest art events this year. Cindy Martin reports
