Meet Andy Warhol

To add a Pop Art dimension to your stay in the City of Light, visit the largest Andy Warhol exhibition ever held. ‘Warhol Unlimited’ is at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris from October 2nd, 2015 until February 7th, 2016, and features more than 200 works of the ‘Pope of Pop’. Among the works on display is the seldom seen cycle of paintings called ‘Shadows’, created by the artist in 1978-1979. The museum is located just 15 minutes on foot from the Hotel Cristal Champs Elysées, via the Avenue Georges V.

A well-known and controversial artist

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is certainly one of the best-known and most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century. A major figure in contemporary art, he was one of the pioneers of the creative but often controversial movement known as Pop Art. However, there are many art critics who, in the wake of the exorbitant prices attained by his work have asked the question, “Was Warhol a genius or a fraud?” Go to see this dazzling exhibition and you’ll have the best possible opportunity to answer this question for yourself.

An exhibition not to be missed

‘Shadows’ is widely regarded as the most ambitious series of paintings Andy Warhol ever created. One vast environmental work in 102 paintings (along with others in various formats and with differing motifs), it is a room sized installation which, when exhibited, covers around 130 metres of display space, its sheer scale suggesting the importance of the subject matter to the artist. Or perhaps the truth is just the opposite, as Andy Warhol was also a master of paradox. The series focuses on images photographed in the artist’s New York studio, The Factory, and is rarely seen as a complete group. As the work of a master of excess breaching boundaries and playing with themes of presence, absence and representation, it deserves to be seen.

Curators: Sébastien Gokalp and Hervé Vanel.

Picture : Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris