The Rooseum presents a previously unknown body of work including 35 large paintings, 6 films and a selection of graphic prints, by Andy Warhol one of 20th century most significant artists.

The visitors are given the unique opporturnity of viewing the work Warhol created during the last ten years of his life - abstract painting which is simultanieously playful, spitefully ironic and yet breathtakingly beautiful. In the light of his earlier films, from 1963 and 1964, it becomes clear that abstraction to Warhol was always a point of reference, as a temptation, but also as something infected with historicity which he distanced himself from.

Warhol's abstract painting is without doubt, on one level, a humourous comment on the abstract expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s such as Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and, not least, Jackson Pollock. This is evident in the Oxidation Paintings, or Piss Paintings as they are also titled, from 1977 onwards, in which Pollock's drip-technique and the central core in the myth surrounding Pollock of how he throws water into Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace, congenially integrates. Visitors to Warhol's studio were invited to urinate onto large canvases prepared with copper-paint, the result being beautifully shimmering canvases of "individual brushstrokes".

On another level this body of work constitutes an oeuvre that extrudes unreleased grief. Never before has Warhol's work been so true to his own artistic principles: so empty, but yet so beautiful.