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🕒 Date of last update of the article: 11.02.2024 at 9:49 p.m | 🖋 Author: Viktor Shatrov
The mini-sculpture of the king of pop art Andy Warhol was installed on 6 December 2014. It became the tenth anniversary sculpture in Uzhgorod. It is located on Zhupanatska Square in Uzhgorod near the Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after Yosyp Bokshai (GPS: 48.625372, 22.296508).
The sculpture of Andy Warhol is made of 2 kg of bronze by the famous sculptor Mykhailo Kolodko and blacksmith Vasyl Kryvanych. The authors of the idea to install this mini-sculpture are sculptor Mykhailo Kolodko and tourism expert Fedir Shandor.
Miniature Andy is pointing his camera towards a Slovak school. There is a certain symbolism in this, as the parents of the US-born Andy Warhol come from the territory of modern Slovakia. It is also interesting that the sculpture has its back to the museum. According to the author of the sculpture, Mykhailo Kolodko, the reason for this placement is the absence of Warhol’s works in this museum. He promised that he would turn the mini-sculpture towards the art museum as soon as a Warhol painting appears there.
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| 🗺 Location | N48°37′32″ E22°17′47″ |
| 🗽 Opening date | 06.12.2014 |
| 🧑 Sculptor | Mykhailo Kolodko |
| 🧑 Blacksmith | Vasyl Kryvanych |
| 🧭 Distance from the center of Uzhgorod | Near |
| 🚙 Road for | Car, on foot |
| 🏕 Stop with a tent | No |
| 🏡 Housing nearby | Uzhgorod |
| ☕ Cafes and shops | Uzhgorod |
Andy Warhol (real name Andriy Vargola) is a world-famous painter, sculptor, film director, publisher of Ukrainian (Lemko) origin, one of the founders of pop art culture, who became a legend during his lifetime.
The E. Warhol Museum of Contemporary Art in Medzilabirca, Slovakia, is located 15 km from Uzhgorod. However, the most complete collection of his works is located in the E. Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where there are more than 8,000 of his works that he created in his art studio “Factory” in New York. Warhol was guided by the idea of mass production of artworks in the same way that factories produce products for supermarkets on conveyors. He involved his superstar guests in the creative process and that is why the studio became a factory. It was also called the silver factory because everything inside was painted silver, with pieces of foil scattered on the floor and mirror balls on the ceiling. The most expensive painting by Andy Warhol, Silver Linings Playbook (double), was sold in 2013 for $105.4 million.
The original legend of the Andy Warhol mini-sculpture is told by Nadiya Popadiuk in her book Uzhgorod – the World Capital of Mini-Sculptures. According to legend, in 1962, when Warhol’s factory had just started operating and was not yet so bohemian, it was visited by a young sculptor from Ukraine. He introduced himself to Warhol as a fellow countryman of his parents, as he lived at the time in Uzhgorod, just 113 kilometres from the village of Mikova, where they were from. Andy was very interested in the guest and asked him to tell him more about his life and work in the country that his mother remembered fondly throughout her childhood. She was a very important person in his life, because it was his mother who inspired him to create creative art, as she made and sold flowers from tins and corrugated paper, taught him to draw and make collages from newspaper clippings. Warhol and his unusual guest talked for more than two hours. As a parting gift, the Ukrainian sculptor gave Andy a rare camera, which the owner of the silver factory really liked, and he never parted with it again, it was with its help that he took the best photos that went down in the history of pop art. When he returned to Uzhgorod, The talented sculptor installed a mini-sculpture of Warhol near the Transcarpathian Art Museum, and Andy is holding his legendary camera.
| 🔰 Start | From the mini-sculpture “Ukraine – One” |
| 🚶 Walking distance (through Dovzhenka Street and Zhupanatska Square) | 290 m |
| 🕒 Approximate time | 4 minutes |
| ⬆ Rise | Mostly without ups and downs |
Author of the article: Viktor Shatrov
Number of articles: 1100+
Knowledge of languages:: Ukrainian, English
Favourite quote: “Travelling – the only thing that makes you richer“
He was born and lived all his life in Uzhhorod. He graduated with a gold medal from Uzhhorod School No. 1 named after Taras Shevchenko (now Uzhhorod Lyceum named after Taras Shevchenko). He studied at the History Department of UzhNU, graduating with honours in 2009. He worked as a senior researcher at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, a lecturer at the East European Slavic University.
