A major exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Andy Warhole opened at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh on 4 August 2007.

The exhibition has attracted the biggest ever sponsorship of modern art in Scotland from the Bank of Scotland.

Bank of Scotland totalART Andy Warhol is the first in a series of two major modern art exhibitions at the National Gallery Complex featuring Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys. Bank of Scotland will invest over £400,000 in the programme over the next two years.

The exhibition will be the most comprehensive show dedicated to the work of the artist in Scotland and will be arranged on both floors at the National Galleries of Scotland’s world-renowned temporary exhibition space in the centre of Edinburgh. The exhibition aims to show how a life/death duality runs through all of Warhol’s work.

The show will present a broad range of Warhol’s work from the early 1950s to 1986 in a wide range of media – painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, film, photography and installation. Many of the works are being lent by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and there will also be loans from other museums and private collections in Britain and Europe.

Special displays will be dedicated to ‘Marilyn, Liz, Jackie and Elvis’, ‘Portraits of the 1970s and 1980s’, ‘Consumer Products’, ‘Death and Disaster’, ‘Skulls’, ‘Stitched Photographs’, and ‘War, Death and Religion’.

The important installation Silver Clouds (1966) - a room of floating silver-coloured helium balloons - will be included in the display and a number of Time Capsules and Screen Tests are among the many works on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

There will be a special recreation of Warhol's 1983 Zurich exhibition. Paintings for Children, with artworks hung at child's eye level. The Edinburgh College of Art will present a programme of films by and on Warhol and the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, will show a special exhibition of 125 original posters by Warhol covering exhibitions, films and advertising from 1964 to 1988.

The exhibition in Scotland is one of a number of worldwide events dedicated to the artist throughout 2007-2008.

Image: Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, 1979. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Founding Collection, Contribution Dia Centre for the Arts © Licensed by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc/ARS, New York and DACS London 2007.