From Thursday, the city’s District Museum is running an exhibition entitled Andy Warhol: Before and After, featuring items sourced from the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia.
The artist’s parents, Andrij (Andrew) Varchola and Ulija (Julia) Justyna Zavacka, were immigrants to America from the Slovak village of Miková.
Currently, the nearby town of Medzilaborce hosts a museum that collects works and memorabilia associated with the artist, who was born Andrej Varchola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928.
The exhibition in Rzeszów is entirely based on the collections of that museum, which is currently undergoing a comprehensive renovation, Poland's PAP news agency has reported.
Described by the exhibition's curator Michał Rut as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Warhol is recognized as an art revolutionary, the founder of pop art, and a pop culture icon.
"This is an artist who transitioned from a successful graphic designer in advertising to celebrity status, whose popularity rivaled that of film stars and pop music idols," Rut told the PAP news agency.
The exhibition in Rzeszów features a total of 115 works by Warhol, spanning both his early creative periods and the peak of his popularity, as well as documents, photographs and family memorabilia.
Photo: PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
The event runs until June 16.
Following its display in Rzeszów, the exhibition will travel to Nice, France, after previously being shown in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Source: PAP