Andy Warhol - Time Capsules
"What you should do is get a box for a month,and drop everything in it
and at the end of the month lock it up.
Then date it and send it over to New Jersey.
You should try and keep track of it,
but if you can't and you lose it, thats fine.
Because its one less thing to worry about,
another load off your mind..
I started off myself with trunks and the odd peices of furniture,
but then I went shopping around for something better
and now I just drop everything into the same-size brown cardboard boxes."
(Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again)
'Trash or Treasure?' a Published Commentry on Warhol exhibition 2005 @ NGV Melbourne
'....The 15 time capsules that have come to Melbourne occupy all three galleries of the NGV's temporary exhibition space ..
The contents are displayed in custom-built cabinets made from brown corrugated cardboard that echoes the material of the capsules themselves.The contents include both trash and treasure. There are numerous Warhol artworks, including a painting from the 1950s, original Polaroids and photobooth strips. There is also the source material for a lot of artistic projects, both finished (the original frame cut from a comic strip that was used as the source for Warhol's 1961 Dick Tracy painting) and unfinished (a script treatment for a Broadway show based on the music of Lou Reed). Publicity material for his art shows and films. Some cover a period as short as a week; others span 10-20 years. Most of those on display in Melbourne represent Warhol's life and times in the late 1970s. Celebrity is a constant theme, both in the items he collected (Jean Harlow's dress, Clarke Gable's shoes) and in his friendships (thank-you notes from Divine and Diana Vreeland). Correspondence covers the intensely personal (letters from his assistant Gerard Malanga after a falling-out) and the crazily impersonal ,pizza dough, dirty knickers - mingle with items that cast a more substantial shadow over his life, such as hate mail from Valerie Solanos, the hanger-on who shot and nearly killed him in 1968. One Solanos letter is addressed to "Andy Warhol, Asshole, New York". Such was his fame, it managed to get to him through the postal service.
The contents of the time capsules afford us new insights into Warhol's biography and his personality. More than confirming the dates of certain events or the sources of various projects, they present a vivid, chaotic collage of his era. "
how odd to think the ephemera of your whole life could end up behind glass cases!
'....The 15 time capsules that have come to Melbourne occupy all three galleries of the NGV's temporary exhibition space ..
The contents are displayed in custom-built cabinets made from brown corrugated cardboard that echoes the material of the capsules themselves.The contents include both trash and treasure. There are numerous Warhol artworks, including a painting from the 1950s, original Polaroids and photobooth strips. There is also the source material for a lot of artistic projects, both finished (the original frame cut from a comic strip that was used as the source for Warhol's 1961 Dick Tracy painting) and unfinished (a script treatment for a Broadway show based on the music of Lou Reed). Publicity material for his art shows and films. Some cover a period as short as a week; others span 10-20 years. Most of those on display in Melbourne represent Warhol's life and times in the late 1970s. Celebrity is a constant theme, both in the items he collected (Jean Harlow's dress, Clarke Gable's shoes) and in his friendships (thank-you notes from Divine and Diana Vreeland). Correspondence covers the intensely personal (letters from his assistant Gerard Malanga after a falling-out) and the crazily impersonal ,pizza dough, dirty knickers - mingle with items that cast a more substantial shadow over his life, such as hate mail from Valerie Solanos, the hanger-on who shot and nearly killed him in 1968. One Solanos letter is addressed to "Andy Warhol, Asshole, New York". Such was his fame, it managed to get to him through the postal service.
The contents of the time capsules afford us new insights into Warhol's biography and his personality. More than confirming the dates of certain events or the sources of various projects, they present a vivid, chaotic collage of his era. "
how odd to think the ephemera of your whole life could end up behind glass cases!
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