The aim of Andy Warhol. Pentiti e non peccare più! is to explore the spirituality of an artist whose work is universally known as the clearest and most direct representation of 1960s and 70s American consumer society. The monograph is part of the exhibition in Rome curated by Gianni Mercurio and produced in collaboration with the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Pentiti e non peccare più! focuses on one basic aspect of Warhol's work: the relationship with people and things to life and death, a theme which absorbed the artist and which, explored in this way, implicitly becomes a religious fact, connected to the relationship between man and his destiny. An unusual Andy Warhol emerges from this study, which enriches our understanding of this larger than life twentieth century artistic figure, who is generally only identified with his most celebrated iconic works, such as the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy or the images of Campbell's Soup.
Through a comparison between his more typical works and others which are openly dedicated to religious themes, such as The Last Supper or Repent and Sin No more!, this publication highlights how the artist always shifted his professed Catholic religious nature to a passionate exploration of meaning in the themes of his work: from the series of early paintings with "iconic" figures that made him famous (Marilyn, Marlon Brando, Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor), to the works which are symbolic of American consumerism, the Disaster series from 1963 with images of automobile accidents and victims taken from the pages of newspapers and "resuscitated" on canvasses in all their horror, and the Big Electric Chair, modern instrument of torture similar to the cross.
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