Kaws : What Party - Black On Pink Edition - Daniel Birnbaum

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Résumé :
Drawing from Pop art traditions, KAW's work straddles the line bbetween 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 maior 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.

Biographie:
Daniel BIRNBAUM is director of London's Acute Art, a laboratory exploring art and technology. He is professor of philosophy at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and the author of numerous books on art and philosophy. From 2000 to 2010 he was rector of the Städelschule and director of its Portikus gallery. He has been a member of the board of directors of Frankfurt's Institut für Sozialforschung as well as of Nobel Media, which organizes all events and productions surrounding the Nobel Prizes. Between 2010 and 2018 he was director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He was co-curator of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), Airs de Paris (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (2007), and the 2nd Yokohama Triennale (2008). He organized 50 Moons of Saturn (the 2nd Torino Triennale, 2008) and ZERO (with Tijs Visser) at Martin-Gropius-Bau (2015). In 2009 he was director of the 53rd Venice Biennale. He is a contributing editor to Artforum. Eugenie TSAI is the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum. Prior to joining the Museum in 2007, she held curatorial positions at MoMA PS1 and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Among the exhibitions and installations she has organized are Shirin Neshat's Turbulent, which received the International Association of Art Critics' award for best show by an emerging artist in 1999 . the midcareer survey Threshold : Byron Kim, 1990-2004 . Robert Smithson, which received the International Association of Art Critics' first-place award for the best monographic exhibition of 2005 . LaToya Ruby Frazier : A Haunted Capital . and Kehinde Wiley : A New Republic. Recently she co-organized Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley and Jeffrey Gibson : When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks. Tsai received her PhD from Columbia University.

Sommaire:
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....