Review: Andy Warhol Exhibition at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin – Rating 4 Stars

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Experiencing “Andy Warhol: Three Times Out” at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin brings to mind a remark that the art critic Bernard Berenson once made to the historian Iris Origo as they walked through the Tuscan hills a century ago. “One moment is enough,” Berenson said, as he talked of the art of looking, “if the concentration is absolute”.

That quality of absolute concentration presents itself in moments short and long in the spacious, unhurried installation mounted by the curators Barbara Dawson and Michael Dempsey at the Hugh Lane. It stands out in Warhol’s fastidious concern with color, with memorializing and mortality; his mastery of studio process; and in the unflinching way he used self-portrayal and self-mythologizing to create an epoch-defining take on the artist’s life. Then there is Warhol the history artist who saw through the workings of news media in the days of 1960s protest; and the film director who played the unblinking voyeur of sleeping, eating, gossiping and lovemaking.

“Andy Warhol Three Times Out” includes more than 250 works by the artist, lent by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and

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