Andy Warhol: A review of His Time Capsules - Shown at the National Gallery of Victoria: Andy Warhol exhibition

What is the meaning of time? Time means many things to me. But the most appropriate description I often say is that time is the period of every being’s lifetime. People from the middle ages has always tried ways of finding immortality and living forever, although I know dreams for dreams. Time goes swiftly, and we are remembered only for our achievements and popularity, and Andy Warhol’s popularity was from pop art culture.

So how is time related to culture? Time relates to culture because time represents civilizations. Every civilizations belongs to a “culture”, which in my own words, is a “group” or society in which someone belongs to. Andy Warhol belonged to the culture of his era, pop culture, in which it drew its subjects from the media. He revolutionized things, and driven into a pursuit of money and fame by his belief that by being idle would accomplish nothing, and so started the TIME CAPSULES Collection.

My first reaction as I entered the NGV to see Andy Warhol exhibition was to be bemused. The whole exhibition virtually spend looking into Warhol’s time capsules. The capsules were spread out so one can see all the contents inside, but at first I wondered if he did all of this purposely or it was mere accident that he just happened to stuff everything he could put his hands on in the boxes. There were some various items that were very disturbing; pictures of naked young men and one that I believed that looked like a naked transsexual. He also created “films”, that is, motion pictures that stayed stationary or repeating the same actions over and over again for minutes on end. I was very bewildered and confused at first to see this, but I reflected upon the fact that Warhol lived...