Outer and Inner Space + The Velvet Underground in Boston
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
The screening of Outer and Inner Space (2X16mm) will be done by filmmakers and projectionists Karl Lemieux and Eduardo Menz
A particularly audacious work on the formal level, consisting of a simultaneous projection in 16 mm of two films built in split-screen, so that the heroine Edie Sedgwick is permanently confronted with doubles or reflections of herself. Her addresses to the camera are systematically dephased by her doubles who comment on her words with an off-screen individual.
The Velvet Underground in concert at The Boston Tea Party nightclub in 1967. This is the only known color footage of the band, and one of the two known films with synchronous sound of the band in concert.
Photo header and poster : Andy Warhol, Outer and Inner Space, 1965 16mm film, black-and-white, sound, 66 minutes; 33 minutes in double screen ©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, “Velvet Underground in Boston”, 1967 16mm film, color, sound, 33 minutes ©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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