EXHIBITIONS
ANDY WARHOL: SERIAL PORTRAITS
The Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo is proud to present “Andy Warhol—Serial Portraits,” featuring a selection of celebrated and lesser-known works by the iconic American artist from the collection of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Andy Warhol was a multifaceted figure, one of Pop Art’s great masters and an extremely prolific artist who worked in New York from 1949, when he started out as advertising illustrator, until his death in 1987. Portraiture was always central to Warhol’s work. He compulsively sketched, photographed, filmed, and silkscreened the people in his entourage. From his Self-Portrait of 1963–64 to 1981’s enigmatic The Shadow, the works assembled here illustrate both the evolution of the artist’s media image and the technical and stylistic development of his artistic practice. His rarely shown drawings of young men, sketched in ballpoint pen in the 1950s, open the exhibition and offer an uncommon glimpse of the expressive, highly personal style that was characteristic of his early advertising illustrations. The exhibition establishes a common thread connecting these Unidentified Male sketches to the photo booth snapshots in a dishevelled fright wig taken the year before the artist’s death and his Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century from the 1980s—the fruit of a ceaseless exploration of mechanized artistic techniques.
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo stays open until 10pm on November 5.
ESPACE LOUIS VUITTON TOKYO
- F-2
- Omotesando
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo is located on the seventh floor of the Louis Vuitton Omotesando building. The space is dedicated to holding exhibitions organized in the framework of the Hors-les-murs program developed by the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a cultural and artistic institution dedicated to contemporary art, artists, and the works that inspire them. The program presents artworks from the foundation’s collection at Espace Louis Vuitton venues in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Beijing, Venice, and Munich, with the goal of bringing the collection to broad audiences around the world.
