Andy Warhol e i media / Andy Warhol: Headlines
12 giugno 2012 - 9 settembre 2012 / June 12th, 2012 - September 9th, 2012
GNAM Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma

Andy Warhol, A Boy for Meg, 1962, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, 1971.87.11 © 2011 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York	Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle, 1977 - cm 182,9x218,4 Pittura a polimeri sintetici e serigrafia su tela, Roma, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna
	Warhol in the Factory during work on the triptych "Fate Presto," 1981. Photo by Michele Bonuomo

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Warhol è rappresentato alla Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna da una delle sue 'nature morte politiche': Hammer and Sickle (1972), una delle opere della serie dedicata a falce e martello, la cui fonte d'ispirazione è l'Italia.

La mostra "Warhol: Headlines" è costituita da un gruppo cospicuo di opere riunite insieme per la prima volta, in cui le notizie vengono elevate al livello artistico. Warhol ci ricorda che un fatto, anche se scioccante, non diventa notizia fintantoché non è tradotto in un titolo, finché non gli viene data una forma grafica. In questa esposizione, per la prima volta, la relazione tra Warhol e i media non è analizzata attraverso icone (ritratti di celebrità o immagini pubblicitarie), ma attraverso simboli linguistici. Meno conosciuta delle Marilyn o del Ketchup Heinz, questa fase della sua produzione presenta maggiori legami con altri fenomeni artistici quali la poesia concettuale e quella visiva, o l'attuazione di importanti cooperazioni con altri artisti (Keith Haring).

In collaborazione con la National Gallery of Art of Washington, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; a cura di Molly Donovan con John J. Curley, Anthony E. Grudin, John G. Hanhardt, Calie Angell e Matt Wrbican

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In cooperation with the National Gallery of Art of Washington, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; curated by Molly Donovan with John J. Curley, Anthony E. Grudin, John G. Hanhardt, Calie Angell and Matt Wrbican.

Warhol is represented in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna by one of his "political still lives": Hammer and Sickle (1972), one of the works of the series properly dedicated to hammer and sickle, whose source of inspiration was Italy.

The exhibition "Warhol: Headlines" is made up of a consistent group of works gathered together for the first time, whose main theme is the "news" elevated to artistic levels. Warhol reminds us that an event, even a shocking one, does not turn into a piece of news unless it is translated into a title, unless it gets a graphic form. In this exhibition the relationship between Warhol and the media is for the first time not analyzed through his icons (celebrities' portraits or ads) but through linguistic symbols. Less known than the Marylin or the Ketchup Heinz series, this stage of his production presents more connections with other artistic phenomena, such as conceptual or visual poetry, or as the carrying out of important cooperations with other artists ( Keith Haring ).

Warhol: Headlines will define and bring together works that the artist based largely on headlines from the tabloid news. Warhol had a lifelong obsession with the sensational side of contemporary news media, and examples of his source materials for the works of art will be presented for comparison, revealing Warhol's role as both editor and author.

The rich headline motif will be traced through about 80 works representing the full range of its treatment in Warhol's practice—from paintings, drawings, prints, photography, and sculpture to film, video, and television. A major, yet previously unexplored theme that ran through Warhol's entire career, the headline encompasses many of his key subjects, including celebrity, death, disaster, and current events.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) is among the foremost American artists of the last century. Alongside Pablo Picasso, he is also considered one of the most important 20th-century artists in the world. Wherever one places him, Warhol's influence is indisputable. His visual vocabulary has become a part of the vernacular from which it originally derived. Even his purported 1968 statement "in the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" has become as ubiquitous as the 24-hour news cycle.