Eat + Henry Geldzahler

Date: 17 February 2002 | Season: Andy Warhol Tate

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EAT + HENRY GELDZAHLER
Sunday 17 February 2002, at 3:00pm
London Tate Modern

Minimal portraits of figures from the New York art world.

Andy Warhol, Eat, USA, 1964, 39 min
Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, USA, 1964, 99 min

Two slow motion, minimal portraits of figures from the New York art world. Artist Robert Indiana eats, and the former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art smokes a cigar. Eat consists of several short rolls assembled out of order so the consumed mushroom occasionally renews itself. During the course of his extended portrait Geldzahler’s initial poise descends into discomfort and self-consciousness.