Warhol, Pollock and other American spaces is a temporary exhibition curated by Estrella de Diego and organized by the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum.
This exhibition features works by Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, two very different, key figures of the 20th century. However, we find some common characteristics in their work, such as repetition, seriality, and abstraction.
They also share some conceptual themes, such as an interest in the changes taking place in painting at that time, spatiality, and a fascination with large-scale formats.
Other artists from this same period who also explored new ways of occupying space, such as Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg, have also joined this exhibition.
Like the entire 20th century generation, Jackson and Pollock were united by a concern for the changes taking place in painting and the new ways of looking at the world in which they lived.
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This exhibition attempts to break stereotypes by showing that Pollock was not merely an abstract artist, nor was Warhol only interested in banal subjects.
An example of this is "Death and Disaster," a series of silkscreen prints created by Andy Warhol that explores the theme of car accidents, a subject of great importance and seriousness. Warhol's fascination with his fellow artist allows us to relate this series to the accident that cost Pollock his life in 1956.
Both artists explored the concept of space in their works, using it as a space of concealment and overlapping. Furthermore, both sought to redefine the figure-ground relationship, so that the figures unfold and camouflage themselves, because the backgrounds reclaim their status as figures. The projects in which they carried out this exploration were eminently autobiographical and situated themselves between figuration and abstraction.
"This exhibition is an invitation to look again, to cross the boundaries between the figurative and the abstract, to contemplate once more as a subversive act". - Estrella de Diego, curator of the exhibition.