The Eternal Now
Warhol and the Factory '63 - '68

Andy Warhol is one of the twentieth-century's most renowned and complex artists and twenty years after his death The Eternal Now presents an opportunity for audiences to experience at first hand some of his most important and influential work.

This major exhibition marks the work of Andy Warhol and those involved in his expansive studio, the Factory - a centre of experimental art production in the 1960s. The exhibition brings from the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to Ireland some of the most important work emerging from the studio during that time including film, painting, photography, sculpture, music and books. In 1964 Warhol moved into what became known as the Silver Factory and until 1968 this space provided a physical and conceptual framework for a broad range of activity that pushed the boundaries of what art production can be and helped define our contemporary ideas of the role of the artist.

Between 1963, when he bought his first 16mm movie camera, and 1968, Andy Warhol led an intensive period of film-making from the Factory, which challenged the conventions of cinema and blurred the lines between fiction and reality. During this period Warhol expanded his practice into a collaboration with the seminal band the Velvet Underground. The exhibition includes films and music resulting from this collaboration. This exhibition features many works never before seen in Ireland and presents a rare opportunity to address the creative legacy of Warhol and those artists working with him during this extraordinarily productive period of the Factory's history.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Jan Winkelmann and Francis McKee.

The Eternal Now - Warhol and the Factory '63 – '68 is curated by Sarah Glennie and organised by the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. The exhibition is a research partner in The Arts Council Touring Experiment.

The Inevitable Show (reproducing fame)
Damien Hirst, Michael Riedel, Static


28 February - 8 June 2008

The Inevitable Show presents new installations and projects developed in response to the exhibition The Eternal Now – Warhol and the Factory ’63 – ’68, which is presented at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery simultaneously. The title of the exhibition refers to Warhol’s “Exploding Plastic Inevitable (show)”, which he presented in 1966 together with the band The Velvet Underground and the singer Nico.