Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 – Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017
Film still from Andy Warhol, Sunset, 1967. 16mm film, color, sound, 33 minutes. © 2016 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum
Daily screening of the 16mm film held Wednesday-Sunday at 6 pm.
A rare, unfinished film by Andy Warhol, Sunset is a meditation on the temporality of an everyday phenomenon. Warhol began making the film in 1964 when the Menil Collection founders John and Dominique de Menil commissioned the artist to create a new film, one with spiritual significance. Warhol shot sunsets in San Francisco, East Hampton, and New York City, but never completed the project, stating, “I filmed so many sunsets for that project, but I never got one that satisfied me.”
About the Exhibition
Sunset was restored and re-released in 2000 as part of The Andy Warhol Film Project, begun in the 1980s to research, catalogue, and preserve the artist’s massive—and for a time, relatively unknown—moving-image body of work. The Andy Warhol Film Project is a collaborative archival research project of Whitney Museum and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Warhol himself gave his approval to the project and handed over his original films to MoMA for cataloguing and storage in 1984.
This presentation of Sunset is curated by Michelle White.
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