“I want to be a machine,” Andy Warhol famously declared. What may have at first seemed like standard drollness uttered by the founder of the Factory was actually a prediction that in the future art would increasingly become more mechanised. The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art takes this theme to explore the work of Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi, charting their development on either side of the Atlantic. The show demonstrates how both artists captured images from photography and advertisements – Warhol traced while Paolozzi used collage – before turning to screenprinting in the early 1960s. Highlights include rarely seen Warhol drawings from the 1950s, and Paolozzi’s early proto-Pop collages.
Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi | I want to be a machine. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
