How to visit the Andy Warhol exhibition (Valencia): schedules

The possibility of rediscovering Warhol is already a reality in Valencia until the month of January in a exposure that allows us to enjoy some of its most iconic pieces.

You will have seen them hundreds of times, but now you have the opportunity to get to know them up close: the mythical Campbell's Soup, famous portrait of Marilyn, its Polaroid collection, Together with the series Ladies and Gentlemen, where he portrays the community Drag Queen New Yorker.

The sample includes more than 120 original works of the artist, in addition to personal and unique souvenirs, such as two guitars signed by two other kings, Michael Jackson and Rolling Stone.

These are just some of the historical gems of the 20th century that you cannot miss in the Warhol Super Pop exhibition in Valencia.

Warhol exhibition dates in Valencia

This is an exhibition organized by Next Exhibition Art Motors and the support of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, and it is a trip to America in the 50s, 60s and 70s that allows us to get closer to an iconic artist who has marked generations of artists.

The Warhol exhibition dates in Valencia consist of from September 29 to January 29, 2023, and you can see it in the Mercantile Athenaeum of Valencia.

Who was Andy Warhol, genius of Pop Art

The name of Andy Warhol is a safe bet for collectors who raffle off his work, a mythomaniac and iconic artist who managed to bring the American culture to all audiences.

Throughout his 40-year career, he flirted with numerous disciplines, such as painting, photography, marketing, graphic design, advertising, film, fashion and music.

Was the highest representative of Pop art, art accessible to all, which was born as a contrast to abstract expressionism in Great Britain, although it reached its peak in the United States.

It does not seek an inner journey through art, but rather to enrich the artist and maintain a direct relationship between the work of art and the viewer.

And how did he get it Warhol?

Well, popularizing art, using common elements from the street and American culture, such as a soup can, a Coca Cola bottle or a dollar, and elevating them to the category of artistic work but that you can find in your own home or in a gallery.

Warhol He is also a representative of business art and he was never ashamed to say that he wanted to be a rich artist.

Andrew Warhol He was born in Pittsburgh in 1928, and began as an illustrator in the late 40s, collaborating in different magazines.

It was a decade later when he reached the summit with the exhibition at the Bodley Gallery New York.

In 1960 he inaugurated The Factory, an art studio that he maintained until 1984, where he generated some of his most emblematic works that you can see in this exhibition.

Warhol He was a friend of celebrities and intellectuals, but also of bohemians and people from all walks of life, achieving worldwide fame and acquiring a role as a guru of modernity and the avant-garde.

He is considered like one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

What to see at the Andy Warhol exhibition in Valencia

La exposure It is organized in three rooms.

The first thing you find is a multimedia area in which we approach the artist with a documentary video which includes an interview with one of his muses.

Campbell's Soup and other iconic works by Warhol on display in Valencia

El American dream It is the next stage of the journey in which we immerse ourselves directly in the universe Warhol with his most important and iconic work: Campbell's Soup, the pyramid of canned goods is responsible for whetting visitors' mouths.

There are thirty-two cans, because as the artist himself explained, there are thirty-two varieties (of soups).

Next to it we find the portraits of Liz Taylor y Jacky Kennedy, two of his great muses.

Another of the treasures of this room is the Gold Book, Andy Warhol's Golden Book with some of his first designs in the 60s.

Marilyn Monroe and Warhol in Valencia exhibition

La second room It is located on the second floor of the palace, where you are greeted by a set of silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe, Which Warhol contributed to rise thanks to this photo so repeated throughout history.

Only one is the original silkscreen on paper from 1967 belonging to a private collection.

In the 70s was when the Warhol portraitist who receives numerous commissions from stars and models of the fashion world.

This part of the exhibition is dedicated to explaining the technical pop revolution, and how he managed to implement industrial systems in artistic production, in this case, serial production.

Another element that impacts the work of the American artist is the Electric Chair.

Here we find it in two serigraphs from 1971 that we can see at the beginning and at the end of a long corridor, where both clash with the color of the rest of the floral works in this gallery.

Death It is a topic that he developed, above all, when the debate about its use in the United States began. Both are part of his disaster series, which explores the dark side of “American way of life".

Along with the also featured image of Mao, we found the series of Ladies and Gentlemen in which he portrays the trans community New York from the 70s.

Here Andy talks to us about sex, gender and oppression.

Beautiful images that will not leave you indifferent and that give you a more complex vision of his work, beyond Hollywood celebrities or American symbols.

Polaroids of Andy Warhol in Valencia exhibition

Among the treasures of this exhibition, the collection of Polaroids with which the Pittsburg artist captured multiple moments every day.

took thousands of photos Polaroid throughout his career, including those of Armani, Diana Ross, Truman Capote, Yoko Ono, Liza Minnelli. In the exhibition you will see the negatives.

Along with them we find the black and white self-portraits by Kristofer Makos; it's about your “Altered Images”, from 1981, well-known photographs in which he portrays himself as Lady Warhol.

Andy Warhol, music producer

El final point The tour takes us to the works of Warhol as music producer already numerous memories of this time, in which he rubbed shoulders with important personalities such as the Rolling, John Lennon o David Bowie.

In the exhibition we can see some of the vinyls with the covers that he designed and produced, like the John Lennon, Miguel Bosé o The Velvet Underground.

Warhol became manager and producer of this latter rock band, and for them he made the famous banana cover, But it was not the only one.

The best known is the one from the album “Sticky Fingers” by The Rolling Stone, considered as the most famous cover in music history.

The original LP from 1971, we find it with another Rolling guitar, signed by all its members and by Andy.

But it is not the last surprise, this instrument competes with another guitar, that of himself Michael Jackson with hat Fedora also dedicated, along with the cover of the singer of the Time magazine of 1984.

The exhibition concludes with two fundamental elements to understand its success: on the one hand, the vision of art as a business and the artist as businessman and on the other, the ability to create art accessible to all audiences.

The culmination of this exhibition are the original covers of the Interview magazine, founded in 1969, which was the prototype of today's fashion magazine.

Here we find some iconic covers like those of Jack Nicholson, Nick Jagger o by Tom Cruise.

Thanks to them, Warhol He was considered a visionary, since in addition to celebrities, he also put unknown people who would later become famous on these covers.

Their typically Warholian designs led him to make other editions to Play boy o Times. 

Children's Art Corner at Warhol exhibition in Valencia

Finally, on the second floor you have a painting workshop so that the little ones can discover their Warhol inside.

In this room you have tables, with colors and templates, so that they can get closer to the genius, and color some of his most famous works, such as Cow (1966) and Flowers (1964-65).

Warhol exhibition visit schedules in Valencia

You can see the exhibition until January 29 2023 in the Mercantile Athenaeum of Valencia, Town Hall Square 8.

The Warhol exhibition schedules They are, from Tuesday to Friday, from 11 a.m. to 19 p.m., and on Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m., with closure on Mondays.

Warhol exhibition ticket prices in Valencia

The ticket prices for the Warhol exhibition in Valencia The general price is 16,50 euros (12 euros from Tuesday to Friday); 13,50 euros, for seniors +65, children between 6 and 12 years old, students, teachers and people with disabilities (9,50 euros from Tuesday to Friday).

they have free pass children under 6 years of age and companions of people with reduced mobility.