With this exhibition, the curators ask audiences to reconsider Marisol as a leading figure, and her friendship with Warhol as a pivotal force, of American Pop art.
magazine that she needed to spend three to four hours a day daydreaming. “Otherwise I would lose touch with myself,” she said.
Whether it was just one of many cheeky remarks she gave in interviews or Marisol really did devote that much time to rumination, we’ll never know , but it’s not hard to believe given her delightfully eccentric body of work. Her almost-life-size wooden assemblage sculptures, often layered with paint and found objects, play with dimensions and perception, blending absurdity and figuration and pulling from Pop and folk as much as they do pre-Columbian art.
The same cannot be said for her dear friend Andy Warhol, an outsider who struggled to break into the artistic and social circles that Marisol reveled in before finding his own footing and ricocheting into rarefied art-history air. An exhibition opening this week at the Pérez Art Museum Miami , “,” through September 5, aims to chart their overlapping trajectories, bringing to light how this under-appreciated sculptor influenced perhaps the most widely known Pop artist of all time.
The exhibition, curated by Jessica Beck of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, where the show first ran, traces Marisol’s and Warhol’s creative output from the years 1960 to 1968, starting two years before the pair met and ending with the year Warhol was shot and Marisol left New York for Europe. Pieces each artist made of the other, like Marisol’sDigital Image © Acquavella LLC 2022. © 2022 Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society , New York.
“You get to know her through the eyes of Warhol, quite literally,” says Franklin Sirmans, PAMM’s director, who organized the Miami show with assistant curator Maritza Lacayo. Sirmans and Lacayo both emphasize the importance of placing this show in the context of Miami, with its Latino population. In many ways, “From the silent Warhol films, the show moves loosely chronologically.
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