Andy Warhol, presented by Halcyon Gallery

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Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Talk Art Special Episode! We meet Paul Green, President and Founder of Halcyon Gallery and Kate Brown, Halcyon's Creative Director. #AD

We explore the epic new Andy Warhol exhibition BEYOND THE BRAND, dedicated to the life and work of Andy Warhol which is now open at Halcyon's galleries until 7th April at 148 & 29 New Bond Street, London. Free to visit!

‘The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.’

ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) explored the intersection between art and commerce like no other artist in history. Beginning his career as a commercial illustrator, his transition to contemporary artist was marked by the depiction of everyday products such as Campbell’s Soup cans, Brillo boxes and Coca-Cola bottles.

Born Andrew Warhola, the artist ‘Americanised’ his name and transformed himself into a brand. He contrived a public persona that was apparently naïve to the implications of his work; ever armed with glib remarks to deflect questions from journalists. As he became active in numerous industries, ‘Andy Warhol’ became a record label, a production company and a publisher.

His commitment to the exploration of commercial themes persisted throughout his career as is best demonstrated by the Ads series, created towards the end of his life. Through these works, Warhol elevated advertisements, transforming them into vibrant, captivating works of art. In doing so, he blurred the line between commercial design and fine art more directly than at any point in his career.

Warhol’s seismic contribution to art history is that he tied his work to a collective consciousness more closely than any other artist had before. His art is a pure reflection of popular culture in his lifetime and the spirit of western capitalism.

Andy Warhol, Beyond the Brand will run until 7th April. Visit Halcyon Gallery's two spaces at 148 & 29 New Bond Street, London to see this powerful exhibition!

Free entry. Show runs until 7th April 2024: https://www.halcyongallery.com/exhibitions/79-andy-warhol-beyond-the-brand/

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0:00.0	Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, whatever you are in the world.
0:07.2	I'm Russell Tovey.
0:08.2	And I'm Robert Diemann.
0:09.4	And this is Tawkart.
0:10.5	Welcome to Tawkart.
0:12.1	How are you today, Robert Today Russell I feel like I'm under a spell.
0:17.0	A spell of a legend and I've been thinking a lot about the idea of legends and the myths that are created historically through culture and we were born in the early 1980s. I'm aging you know, aren't I rass?
0:32.0	You were born a year before maybe. Okay, so I'm technically you know, aren't I rust because I'm born a year before maybe okay
0:34.0	so I'm like technically a bit older than you I was born 1980 so my whole
0:37.1	childhood was kind of under the spell of a like pop musicians like Prince Madonna
0:42.0	and these kind of like very iconic people like
0:44.6	Freddie Mercury who really did in their own way create these kind of
0:48.1	incredibly powerful visual myths and illusions and this idea of the mask.
0:53.4	And then through popular contemporary art of the time,
0:56.5	I sort of began to love art without even really being totally aware
1:00.6	that I was falling in love with art at the time when I was sort of five, six years old, and then seven.
1:04.8	And I remember one of the earliest things was Andy Warhol's series of endangered species,
1:09.5	which last week you and I, which we've done for more than 15 years now, went to an exhibition together
1:15.9	and we actually got to see all of the screen prints of endangered species which I'd never seen in real life before.
1:21.4	I think maybe I'd seen
1:22.5	like the giant well I think I'd seen the giant paintings in a museum show but I'd never
1:28.6	seen them on on paper like the screen prints and they were so cool and it just brought back this kind of full
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