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Tuesday, Sep 28, 1999
Warhol's Outer and Inner Space and Restaurant
Tonight we present two recent restorations in The Whitney Museum's Andy Warhol Project."In Outer an#d Inner Space...Warhol combined experimental technology and multiscreen structure with the rigors of the traditional portrait sitting to create a multiple film-and-video portrait of Edie Sedgwick. In this film...Warhol can be seen reworking certain formal and aesthetic concerns-with media, multiple imagery, celebrity, and portraiture-which he previously explored in depth in his serial silk-screened portraits of movie stars of the early sixties....'Outer and inner' refers not only to the dichotomy between Sedgwick's outer beauty and inner turmoil, so vividly diagrammed in this double portrait, but it also describes the two very different spaces of representation occupied by the video/television medium and by film."-Callie Angell, Adjunct Curator, Andy Warhol Film Project"Restaurant focuses on a single table's crowded arrangement of drinks, cigarettes, and other social accessories as the swirl and chatter of an offscreen dinner party eddies around it. The intrusion of shadows, hands, and bodies passing in front of the camera, compounded by reframing movements, constantly alter the composition as they frustrate viewers' attempts to reconcile seen and unseen cues, the arbitrary with the cagily controlled."-Paul Arthur
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