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monDieu + Det Gode Selskab: Silver Factory Renaissance

Uncontaminated Journals by Maren Serine and Det Gode Selskab
Profile — November 12th, 2016
Uncontaminated Journals by Maren Serine — 7 years ago

”Well there’s not very much to say about me” –Andy Warhol

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That was the answer that leading figure of the pop art movenent and legendary Andy Warhol gave when a moustached interviewer in a suit asked why Warhol absolutely never, in any of his work at that time, told anything about himself. This question clearly reflects a huge paradox as the pop art pioneer today still remains one of the most influential figures in the international contemporary art and culture scene.

The interview was set 50 years ago in front of Double Elvis, Andy’s work of silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on a big canvas. At that time, in the mid 1960es, Warhol had turned 38 years, and he was an important figure in the cultural scene of New York city.

”He sent us to see people” –Bob Recine

In an interview now many years later, that monDieu recently did through our collaboration with international fashion art festival UNCONTAMINATED Oslo, artist Bob Recine, explains when we asked him how he back in the days became one of the kids in the New York punk-rock scene that got Warhol’s attention. The Silver Factory was a studio and paralel universe in the 1960es and 1970es. In Andy’s studio the Warhol Superstars, a group of New York City personalities that Andy picked out for their talent and promoted pretty much did exactly what they wanted.

Andy Warhol’s strong curiosity resulted in an enormous body of work that spanned every available medium. The perhaps most important result of his artistry was his contribution to the collapse of boundaries between high and low culture, something which is still an obvious part of contemporary art thinking of important artworks in our days. Being based in Oslo, which is far from Andy Warhol’s Silver factory in many ways, we only have to do a visit to our local contemporary art museum, Astrup Fearnly Museet, to see pop artworks like the sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles by Jeff Koons. The trace back to Andy Warhol is not difficult to identify.

Absolut Blue Dog by George Rodrigue

Absolut Blue Dog by George Rodrigue

Putting day-to-day goods in his artworks, like Campbell’s soup cans from 1962, was ”new”, as Warhol maybe would have called the phenomenon himself. Collaborations with big comercial brands, like Absolut vodka’s Andy Warhol Edition, has been an important change and remaining movement in commersial design. One of the latest pulses in zeitgeist of today is all about nostalgia, and we glance back towards socalled utopic places, like Warhol’s Silver Factory parties.

Is it possible to interact with the past while moving towards the future? We will absolutely try with Det Gode Selskab tonight.

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