Andy Warhol - the birth of pop art

Pop art, called common-art (art of ordinariness) by the artist himself, became a new way of treating art, created from advertising, from banal objects, referring to consumerism, mass, accessibility. Controversial, arousing emotions and extreme evaluations. Warhol became part of the history of 20th-century mass culture.

The exhibition featured dozens of works by pop art creator Andy Warhol (1928-1987).Several of them will appear in Poland for the first time. The exhibition comes from the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia. It was from there, precisely from the nearby village of Mikova, that the artist’s parents (born in Pittsburgh), poor Slovaks of Ruthenian descent, emigrated overseas.

The second part of the exhibition, in turn, brings the works of two Slovak artists, Daniel Brogyányi and Katarína Obermanová, representing a contemporary continuation of and at the same time a confrontation with the trend started by Warhol.

The exhibition, shown so far in only a few cities in Poland, will next embark on a tour across Europe.

The exhibition introduces one of the important trends in 20th-century art: pop art and its creator. It provides an opportunity to discuss the faces of art and mass culture.