Eat, Sleep, and Kiss, all created around 1963, led to the creation of nearly 650 short films and Screen Tests by Andy Warhol between 1964 and 1968. Warhol, considered one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, was not only an influence attributed to the movement known as Pop Art, but an innovator in avant-garde and experimental film.

The classical elements of life: earth, fire, air, and water were originally proposed by various ancient cultures to explain the nature and complexity of all matter and believed to be essential for life. Through his subjects [now historical and significant artists and poets, Robert Indiana (EAT), Jon Giorno (SLEEP), Gerard Malanga (KISS)] Warhol recorded his own elementary pillars of humanity through radical explorations that leapt beyond the frontiers of conventional cinema.

This September, anonymous gallery will present the 3 Warhol films, Eat, Sleep, and Kiss, as part of Gallery Weekend Mexico galleryweekendmexico.com. Through a curatoially contained installation, it is the hope that presentation will imagine a dialogue between the films that will resonate beyond their original intentions, but will also further explore Andy Warhol’s influence and legacy in Americas and the world.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Andy Warhol

Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.

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