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The Arts Intel Report

Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst: A Revolution in Printmaking

Andy Warhol, Electric Chair, 1971.

Feb 24 – July 23, 2023
Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

Printmaking changed after W.W. II. When visionaries such as Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, and Chuck Close began experimenting with repetition, seriality became an artistic principle. In 1964, Warhol created his Electric Chair, a canvas screenprinted with acrylic paint. This jolting work shows the empty chair, leather straps hanging to the floor, just waiting. In Europe, artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, and Franz Gertsch were playing with large-scale printed graphics, placing monumental pieces in small spaces. The Albertina’s exhibition of 70 works, the third in a series, explores the modernization of printing techniques. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.