A comprehensive monograph on the work of KAWS, one of the most sought-after artists and creative forces of our time
Drawing from Pop art traditions, KAWS's work straddles the line between fine art and popular culture, crossing the mediums of painting and sculpture, along with fashion, merchandise, vinyl toys, and, most recently, augmented reality. This book, made in close collaboration with the artist, features his most well-known works alongside sketches, preparatory drawings, and never-before-seen images of KAWS at work, revealing the meticulous process behind his iconic artworks. Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, it captures the artist's unique ability to reshape the ways we think about contemporary art and culture today.
KAWS卡通形象由身为嘻哈艺术家+玩具设计师的Kaws创作,KAWS的卡通形象有着X双眼、豆荚一样的大大双耳、灯泡一样的头型,没有嘴却有4颗暴露的大牙,有着米老鼠一样的大裤衩和双手双腿的奇异造型。设计师Kaws出生于美国新泽西州,在东京Aoyama区开了一家时尚潮店OriginalFake,KAWS这个品牌是Kaws与Medicom Toy玩具公司合作的创意产物。KAWS公仔以下店铺有售:奇点动漫商城 潮流公仔平台设计师Kaws和不少潮流品牌和艺术家都有合作,其中包括与川久保玲(Comme des Garcons)著名的丹佛街(Dover Street Market)合作、与安逸猿(Bape)的合作 Kaws X Bape、和涂鸦大师Futura的合作Kaws X Futura、和凯罗伯大头机器人(Kidrobot)的合作Kaws X Kid Robot等!
25年来,布鲁克林的艺术家KAWS(出生于1974年的美国人Brian Donnelly)在艺术、流行文化和商业世界之间架起了桥梁。他的实践适应了21世纪的文化生产和消费规则,既批判又参与了消费文化。KAWS: WHAT PARTY是一个广泛的调查,包括超过100件广泛的作品,如罕见的涂鸦绘画和笔记本,绘画和雕塑,较小的收藏品,家具,和纪念装置,他受欢迎的同伴人物。展览还展出了一些为这次展览特别制作的新作品,以及他早年职业生涯中修改过的广告。
KAWS: WHAT PARTY是由Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein策展,布鲁克林博物馆当代艺术高级策展人。
For twenty-five years, Brooklyn-based artist KAWS (Brian Donnelly, American, born 1974) has bridged the worlds of art, popular culture, and commerce. Adapting the rules of cultural production and consumption in the twenty-first century, his practice both critiques and participates in consumer culture. KAWS: WHAT PARTY is a sweeping survey featuring more than one hundred broad-ranging works, such as rarely seen graffiti drawings and notebooks, paintings and sculptures, smaller collectibles, furniture, and monumental installations of his popular COMPANION figures. It also features new pieces made uniquely for the exhibition along with his early-career altered advertisements.
KAWS’s practice acknowledges that works of art can occupy multiple realms—the aesthetic and the transcendent, the commodified and the priceless—and emphasizes that even within a cultural environment shaped by image and consumption, universal emotions such as love, friendship, loneliness, and alienation remain constant. KAWS invites us to engage with his work, both in person and virtually, and explore our own relationship with and connection to objects. Teaming up with Acute Art, a digital art platform directed by acclaimed Swedish curator Daniel Birnbaum, KAWS presents new augmented reality works, allowing visitors to interact virtually with his sculptures using their smartphones to create their own experience.
A fully illustrated catalogue, co-published with Phaidon Press, accompanies the exhibition. Essayists include Daniel Birnbaum, art critic, curator, and director of Acute Art, and Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.
KAWS: WHAT PARTY is curated by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.
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