It will also be the first to explore the complete spectrum
of his astonishing artistic output, stretching across five
decades from the late 1940's to his untimely death in the 1980's — and the first to put Warhol himself — his background and history, his family
life and
formative experiences in Pittsburgh, his crucial experiences as a commercial artist in New York, and his trajectory across three
of the most transforming
decades of the century — back into the presentation
of his
life.
It begins with the
formative period following World War II, when Herrera
lived in Paris and experimented with different modes
of abstraction before establishing the visual language that she would explore with great nuance for the succeeding five
decades.