Where is your rupture

Accession Number:. About This Artwork. Read more about Andy Warhol. By Andy Warhol in the Collection. Andy Warhol, Folding Screen Piglet. The Nation's Nightmare. Male Seated at Automat Counter. Two Marilyns. Twenty Jackies. Superman Myth Series. Statue of Liberty Fabis. In Warhol began to create silkscreen prints, the medium he is best known for. Through these choices Warhol drew on themes of celebrity, death, disaster, and commodity, often read as metaphor for American culture.

In his celebrity portraits and self-portraits, some see religious icons as inspiration; Warhol was Catholic, and he remained religious throughout his life. Warhol was skillfully ambiguous, and his work is interpreted as both celebratory and critical. From his artwork, ranging from painting and sculpture to film, to his studio The Factory , which became a flashpoint for s counterculture, to his infamous celebrity persona, Warhol was deeply influential during his lifetime, and his influence on younger generations of artists is difficult to overstate.

Visitor Guides. Ultimately, the viewer's capacity to make sense of rupture might be said to depend upon the degree of shock absorption built into her or his drive towards meaning. Brigit Kempker's Exercise in Drowning presents boys on the brink of adolescence singing a selection of choral arrangements, audible through headphones. The inevitability of the boys' transition into manhood and the resonance of tradition within the work suggests that although youthful voices might crack, they cannot entirely break from their heritage.

Kempker's piece is assimilated so inconspicuously into the space that it seems to drown before it could rupture. Hans-Peter Ammann's two videotapes use a candid-camera vantage point and slow-play mode, not to provide a faithful recording, but to suggest how the tape as document is translated through a matrix of familiar narrative cues. In Couple , a Chet Baker song, You don't Know what Love Is, combines with the title to form romantic directives that exploit our gullibility.

Leading us down the garden path, these obvious, though possibly empty, signs of a romance get us nowhere in our attempt to unravel the elusive interaction between the people who comprise the 'couple'.

Using the reverse strategy, Mission begins with a montage of apparently arbitrary edits of a quasi-formal cocktail party. Over the course of the minute videotape we become privy to its tenuous logic: through the chatting crowd, the camera concentrates on one man.

Though this device initially heightens the sense of the camera as surveillance tool and evokes the possibility of a desiring gaze, a momentary gesture shifts the narrative. The man turns to look directly at the camera and suddenly disappears, and in so doing intensifies our doubt about who is really in control.

Whereas Ammann makes use of disorienting techniques to deconstruct a linear narrative, Lutz Bacher de-familiarises a key moment in the highly publicised footage of Princess Diana's funeral. The appropriated sequence a loop showing a Welsh Guard carrying the coffin including video scan lines, funeral organ and ominous church bell sounds, extends the public indictment of the media.

The 'live' caption that appears at the top left hand corner of the frame implicates the Janus-like, voracious systems of deployment and consumption: the role of technological mediation and public deification.