Mario Banana II + The Velvet Underground and Nico
In collaboration with the Musée d'art contemporain and at the initiative of curator and artist Nelson Henricks, we present six films made by Andy Warhol. As a continuation of Warhol's Screen Tests presented in the exhibition Henricks' Oeuvres inédites, these six 16mm films provided by MoMA will be presented by Nelson Henricks and Ara Osterweil (McGill).
Header: Andy Warhol, Kiss, 1963-64
16mm film, black-and-white, silent, 58 minutes at 16 frames per second
©The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum
Presented by Nelson Henricks and Ara Osterweil
Black and white version of Mario Banana I, in which Mario eats another banana.
Andy Warhol's Factory in New York City hosts a rehearsal of the group The Velvet Underground and the singer Nico. The session stretches into a long, psychedelic and chaotic musical improvisation. Initially intended to be screened at one of their concerts, the film segues from footage of the rehearsal into snippets of private conversations.
Image header and poster : Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground and Nico, 1966
16mm film, black-and-white, sound, 66 minutes
©The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum
Poster 2 : Andy Warhol, Mario Banana No. 2, 1964
16mm film, black-and-white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second
©The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, whose birth name was Andrew Warhola Jr. was born in Pittsburgh in 1928 to parents of the Ukrainian Rusyns who had emigrated to the United States a few years earlier. His childhood was marked by the hardships of the Great Depression, an illness that forced him to be often bedridden and the early death of his father. After studying art, he moved to New York and worked as an advertising designer for Glamour, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. During the 1950s, he continued his advertising practice while exhibiting in galleries and creating costumes for the theater. Warhol began painting pictures in 1961, quickly becoming a leading figure in Pop Art, and in 1964 he opened the Factory, an art studio and meeting place, where he produced the Velvet Underground and began making experimental films. Until his death in the late 1980s, he continued to alternate between his pictorial practice and his cinematographic work.
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