Interview with Gerald Malanga


Andy Warhol, The Kiss (Bela Lugosi) 1963. Silkscreen ink on paper, 30” X 40”

Interview with Gerald Malanga


“Andy’s ironic way of separating
himself from the immediate reality
of a violent event with an equally
violent yet fictive cinematic tableau
vivant framed as a publicity shot?”
—Gerald Malanga, Archiving Warhol

It's all—that remains
Decades ago now—seem non-existent
A fiction—taking place
Film decades—restlessly over time
The background—now black mostly
Truth  no longer—24 frames per second
And nobody—remembers
A face slowly flickers—and fades

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