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Warhol motion mania hits İstanbul

Featuring Warhol’s friends and “Superstars” Nico, International Velvet, Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar and Mary Woronov amongst others, the assembled reels of unedited film in double screen format present the normal everyday interactions of the avant-garde artist’s disillusioned subjects in a sequence that is at times desperate and cold, and perfectly encapsulates the dark underbelly of the often glamorized drug infused 1960s youth culture and the ugly side of pop.

“Chelsea Girls,” the cult artist’s first major commercial success in film, is just one of a broad selection of some of Warhol’s most acclaimed films, videos and polaroids currently on display at the “Warhol in Motion” exhibition across the three sites of İstanbul’s Galerist art gallery in Galatasaray and Tepebaşı in Taksim and Akaretler in Beşiktaş, which opened in synchrony on Wednesday evening.

The product of lengthy talks between Galerist and the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pennsylvania, this is the first time the pop art icon’s heavily copyrighted film-works have made their way to a Turkish audience.

Spanning a period of six years from 1962 to 1968, during which Warhol, already established as a successful commercial artist, took to producing a wide range of films in his New York City studio, The Factory, the works on display include “My Hustler,” hailed as one of the classics of gay cinema, “The Velvet Underground and Nico,” featuring German singer, model and actress, Nico, in rehearsal with the Velvet Underground, “Horse,” a homoerotic spoof of a traditional Hollywood Western and “Empire,” a fuzzy, slow-motion 8-hour film portrait of the Empire State building recorded out of a nearby window.

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