Until February 22nd the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is presenting the exhibition Andy Warhol: Death and Disaster, according to the organisers "the first European museum exhibition devoted exclusively to this topic" Correct. The first European museum exhibition. But not the first European exhibition devoted exclusively to this topic. On January 13th 1964 Andy Warhol's first solo exhibition in Europe opened at Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris. Although officially titled "Warhol", the exhibition
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Much as Andy Warhol predicated we'd all be famous for 15 minutes, he also understood we'd all be dead forever. And that he dealt with the inevitably of death in all its poetic, brutal and unjust facets in works of art every bit as lively, critical and complex as those he created to deal with the vagaries of celebrity, trash culture and consumerism can currently be experienced in the exhibition "Andy Warhol – Death and Disaster" at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Much like displaying a
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