Arte y Ciencia con IDIBAPS: Christopher Makos

Photographer Christopher Makos’ series “Altered Image” shows us the most intimate version of his friend Andy Warhol through photographs that combine the famous pop artist’s obsession about his image with the revelation of his most vulnerable side, revealing his most captivating gaze. Andy Warhol is presented here beautiful and delicate, with a changing identity that blurs gender boundaries, celebrating fluidity and ambiguity in an artistic context far ahead of its time, anticipating current debates on identity, image and performativity.

Andy Warhol showed a continuous curiosity about science and medicine, heightened by his own health problems. Through medical images and clinical references, he explored the fragility of the body from an artistic and analytical perspective, just as he did with celebrities or consumer products.