Warhol’s Dream

Présentation
Saul Anton
Warhol’s Dream

Saul Anton, critique d’art et éditeur de Cabinet magazine, décrit une rencontre imaginaire entre Robert Smithson et Andy Warhol, conversant du glamour, de la science-fiction, du cinéma, et de l’art de leur temps.

Extrait (en anglais)

«Bob : So, you really want to go?
Andy : I just said so, didn’t I? Fifth Avenue is my second-favorite avenue.
Bob : Which one’s your favorite?
Andy : Madison.
Bob : Why is that?
Andy : All of the fashion boutiques. I couldn’t buy most of that stuff, but I always love a good shop window. Lower Fifth is nice too. On weekends, it’s deserted. Everyone’s uptown at Bergdorf’s and Bloomingdale’s, and only a few are down here looking for rugs.
Bob : It doesn’t seem like we have to worry about any crowds today.
Andy : Well, it’s still pretty early. Are you sure they’ll let us go up at this time?
Bob : I don’t see why not.
Andy : Anyway, what I was going to say was that when you think about it, the rug stores are just like art galleries, aren’t they? They have those giant silk carpets in the windows wall-to-wall, the way I did my cows, and in the big stores, you almost feel like you’re in a museum. And you don’t even have to pay for admission.
Bob : Good point. Are you ready? We got up and left without even paying the bill. But there was no one there, so it didn’t seem like it mattered. Outside we headed over to Fifth, and on the way over, we passed one of those large imported rug emporiums we were just talking about.
Andy : Aren’t they fantastic?
Bob : Some of the rugs are the result of hundreds of years of work, so we really have no idea what we’re looking at or who the artist was.
Andy : I didn’t know that.
Bob : It’s like looking at a Gothic cathedral. You’re not seeing the execution of a blue-print; rather, you’re seeing a series of evolutions that don’t necessarily make sense together. We think we’re seeing just a pattern or a picture, but we’re really looking at cross-sections of time, cathedrals in wool and silk, a weave of conflicting ideas and priorities.»

Saul Anton a collaboré avec de nombreux magazines, parmi lesquels Artforum, Frieze ou Parkett. Il a étudié à la City University de New York et à la Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Il prépare actuellement une thèse de doctorat en philosphie et littérature française sur le rapport de l’esthétique à l’histoire à la Princeton University.