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The self-styled artistic product of a certain Andrijku Warhola's
metamorphosis into Andy Warhol is only an invisible central theme
connecting these two worlds, while the main emphasis of the film
rests on his weirdly droll relatives and the inhabitants of the
small village of Miková.
After the death of Andy Warhol the tiny village for a short time
enjoyed the limelight of international attention, and almost everybody
here had the pleasure of his or her fifteen minutes of fame',
when TV-crews and journalists from various countries were all over
the place. A strange Warhol-fever took hold of most anybody, as
consciousness of the celebrated son spread. Everyone reached out
for a share of the fame, and all of a sudden relatives of Warhol
made up the entire village population.
In a rather strange fashion his art became integrated into quotidian
life, as if this kind of cultural annexation was the most ordinary
thing on earth. The glaring wave of Pop Art washed over the drab
diaspora of the Slovakian Carpathians. Handcrafted items of bizarre
appearance integrated the Warholian touch or his image, be it on
clay tiles picturing soup cans or pillowcases embroidered with his
motifs. With the movingly staged act of business in devotional objects
Miková has recaptured its Andrijku by storm.
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