An exhibition at the Amuti Gallery by Simon Thompson that explores the mixed metaphor and throw-away comment:
“I’m unsure what people are trying to say with repeated subversions of Mona Lisa or Ben Day prints of newspaper pictures in pretty colours, has edgy become a byword for the banal? Is this what Warhol was really saying in his exploration of the everyday or are both viewers and painters just lazy. I think maybe the latter and that this infatuation with the reproduced image rather than an original piece has run its course. Sorry folks but Warhol is over (If you want it - that is).”
Warhol is Over! If You Want It, 29 May–13 June, The Amuti Gallery & Bookshop, London
First posted: Friday, May 30th, 2008.
