At the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, the exhibition "Warhol, Pollock, and Other American Spaces" defies traditional expectations with a surprising installation in which visitors are invited to sit down and contemplate the works of Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko in an act that the curator Estrella de Diego considers political and radical. The last room of the exhibition, titled "Space as Metaphysics," displays a collection of Warhol works that challenges the conventional perception of the artist, famous for his iconic pop art, by presenting works that explore abstraction and engage in a dialogue with the creations of other artists such as Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. The exhibition, which will extend until January, seeks to question the traditional notions of space in Western art.
Among the featured works, the exhibition surprises with Warhol's paintings that apparently flow between the iconic and the abstract, generating a new reading of his work in dialogue with Pollock's creations. De Diego has gathered works from around thirty institutions to offer a fresh and provocative reading of these artists, highlighting a Warhol more complex than is generally known and a Pollock that approaches figuration. With the intention of breaking away from academic categorizations, the exhibit challenges the visitor's perceptions, prompting him to reevaluate his understanding of contemporary art. The director of the Thyssen, Guillermo Solana, notes that the exhibition presents a Warhol "more intellectual and avant-garde" than what many expect, promising surprises for all kinds of audiences.
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