Soup cans, silkscreen, and celebrity. All words that come to mind when mentioning the late, great Andy Warhol. His works have been exhibited in the chicest of galleries of New York, London, Paris, and now…Winnipeg?

The Winnipeg Art Gallery will feature a Warhol exhibit, entitled “Warhol: Larger Than Life” for the consumption and consideration of some of the city’s artiest individuals, and will remain open until Jan. 6.

The exhibit will showcase work from every end of the Warhol spectrum including his drawings, painting, films and photographs. Warhol is known for his keen curiosity in the concept of celebrity, the glorification of everyday, inanimate objects, and mass production of art as a form of art itself.

Helen Delacretaz told CBC News that the exhibit will include a wide range of his works, and can surely appeal to anyone.

“Visitors will be able to see all aspects of Andy Warhol’s production, from early drawings that they might not expect from the ’40s and ’50s, when he was just out of art school, to when he was starting his commercial career in New York in the ’50s through to his icons of the ’60s, his Marilyn Monroes, his Campbell soup cans, his electric chairs,” stated Delacretaz.

After Winnipeg, the exhibit will also visit The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria sometime in May.






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