GATESHEAD, UK.- BALTIC presents Dazed & Confused Vs Andy Warhol; a landmark show celebrating the legacy of Andy Warhol, as it lives on in the work of today’s cultural investigators and innovators.

The exhibition, prompted by the twentieth anniversary of Andy Warhol’s death, explores how his unparalleled influence continues to inspire a new creative generation. Jerome Sans, Director of Programme, BALTIC, invited British style and culture magazine, Dazed & Confused to nominate 12 multimedia artists whom it felt to have a specific link to a post Warholian discourse. After ideas were exchanged with Jefferson Hack, Rob Montgomery and Katy Louis from Dazed & Confused, the resulting exhibition was created as an alternative homage to this iconic artist.

With an ethos that can be seen to parallel that of the world of Andy Warhol, Dazed & Confused curate an exhibition which covers advertising, photography, graphic design, fashion design, performance, new media and music. It will explore the ways in which the ‘now generation’ question, subvert and investigate Warhol’s key themes and ideas in today’s evolving creative landscape.

Dazed & Confused magazine was founded in the early 1990s and was directly influenced by Andy Warhol, his work and the environment he created around him. Dazed & Confused Vs Andy Warhol pays tribute to Dazed & Confused’s important role in identifying and promoting creative talent, echoing Warhol’s Factory of the 1960s – Warhol’s New York studio where artists could work and party together.

Warhol’s Factory offered artists on the fringe of the artistic establishment a creative and social outlet, providing them with a voice through publications such as Interview Magazine. The Warholian belief that everyone should be famous for fifteen minutes is perpetuated by Dazed & Confused with the platform they offer both unknown and established artists. The magazine embodied the zeitgeist of the 90s when Dazed & Confused led the way for a mixed media culture merging music, fashion, film and conceptual thinking that persists today.

Exhibiting artists include: David Fryer, Cyprian Gaillard, Trevor Jackson, The Kills, M/M (Paris), Miltos Manetas, Robert Montgomery, Gareth Pugh, Rankin, Rafael Rozendaal, Peter Stitson, Henry House of Holland and Matthew Stone.