the warhol: press release Contact FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jessica Warchall THE WARHOL ANNOUNCES ANNOUNCES ANDY WARHOL: MY 412-237-8351 PERFECT BODY OPENING OCTOBER 21, 2016
[email protected] warhol.org/museum/pressroom Pittsburgh, PA, June 29, 2016 — Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body October 21, 2016–January 22, 2017 The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body, opening October 21, 2016. The exhibition is the first comprehensive look at Andy Warhol’s engagement with the body, highlighting The Warhol’s permanent collection and including rarely Image: Edward Wallowitch, Andy traveled loans from the collections of major American museums. The Warhol’s Associate Warhol with Face in Hands, 1957– 58, The Andy Warhol Museum, Curator of Art Jessica Beck curated the exhibition. Pittsburgh, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., © Estate of Edward Wallowitch. All rights reserved. Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body reveals the parallels between Warhol’s personal history, including his struggles with his own physical appearance—such as early signs of balding in the 1950s to scars following his 1968 shooting—and the treatment of the body as a subject in his work, from student drawings of the 1940s to late paintings of the 1980s. “This exhibition reveals how the body in Warhol’s work becomes a subject for trauma, torment, shame, desire, transformation, and manipulation,” says Beck. “It is meant to Image: Andy Warhol, Before and After, 4, 1962, Whitney Museum of establish a different narrative and introduce a new approach to understanding Warhol’s American Art, New York, purchase; with funds from Charles Simon © practice, tracing how his personal afflictions manifested in the work and, more broadly, 2016 The Andy Warhol Foundation how this torment fueled his working method.