The art of camouflage

In the Perfect Camouflage exhibition, 11 artists from the WATARI-UM Collection, including Andy Warhol, and guest artists Hiraki Sawa, Noguchi Rika and Hiroshi Sugito, will exhibit approximately 80 works. The central theme of the exhibition is "camouflage". The exhibition is divided into four moments, everyday life, nature, memory and the spatial dimension. Andy Warhol, from whose comparison this exhibition was born, had stated on several occasions how his deepest desire, the reason why he had become a painter, was a not too hidden desire to "be like a machine". An infallible and repetitive mechanism for giving life to works that found their reason in their infinite, mechanistic reproduction. In fact, since the beginning of the 1960s, the father of Pop Art created many artworks using the silk-screen printing technique. A method that allowed Wahrol, always using the same plate, to create unique images by varying the colours, intentionally moving the print and expertly dripping the ink into unexpected places on the canvas.