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Keith Haring Luna Luna Karussell. A Poetic Extravaganza!, 1986 (Keith haring Luna Luna):
Luna Luna "was organized by Andre Heller for “A Fair with Modern Art,” Hamburg in 1987 and recently reintroduced to the world, after nearly 40 years in storage, by Drake in Los Angeles. Haring was one of about thirty major artists, including Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein & Kenny Scharf who participated in creating objects for the fair.
Haring created a Merry Go Round comprised of pop-up sculpture. This was the only object of this type that he made during his career - and it was no doubt in memory of his hero, Warhol, who had made his famous “Index Book” 20 years earlier. Of the edition of 2000, most copies were destroyed immediately after the Fair in an accident. The supplier bought all the remaining copies at the time and it is said that there are 'nearly 100 pieces.'
Medium: Folding pop up book; cover is offset printed.
Dimensions open: 12 x 24 x 9.5 inches.
Dimensions closed: 12 x 12 inches.
Light surface markings & minor age related wear to front & back cover; in otherwise good overall vintage condition. Pop up object appears unused.
'Keith Haring 1986' printed signature on lower left of cover. From an edition of 2000.
Suitable for framing when closed or presented open in a display case.
Literature/References:
Keith Haring: Posters (Doring & Von Der Osten); entry 52.
Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania. From a young age he enjoyed drawing, especially Disney characters and other cartoons. He initially wanted to become a commercial artist but after a year at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, Haring dropped, moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Haring immediately felt connected to the thriving alternative arts scene happening downtown in the late 1970s and became friends with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf.
Inspired by the ideals of “art as life” and moving the art experience out of galleries and into the streets, Haring’s first major works were his subway drawings. Haring produced over one hundred of these public works between 1980 and 1985, integrating his now-iconic exuberant, cartoonish outlined figures into everyday public space in a way that directly engaged its viewers. Haring recalled that the most important aspects of these works was the immediate engagement people had with them, asking him “what does it mean?” and giving him feedback that he’d then incorporate into future drawings. In this way, these works became reflections of the people who viewed them, responsive to and in dialogue with their environment. These works quickly garnered the attention of tastemakers in New York and his first solo exhibition was held at Westbeth Painters Space in 1981 and a celebrated show debuted at the high-profile Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York the following year.
Throughout the 1980s, Haring was committed to democratizing the art experience and along with paintings, he also created theater sets, billboards, murals, advertising campaigns and even a line of Swatch watches. In 1986 he opened the Pop Shop in SoHo - a highly influential contemporary crossovers to art & commerce that are now so dominant in the work & practice of Yayoi Kusama, KAWS and Takashi Murakami.
In addition to this ideology of accessibility, Haring was also very socially engaged and used his striking imagery to promote awareness of various political and social campaigns. His many notable public works included a mural on the western side of the Berlin Wall, the Crack is Wack mural in New York, and a mural for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and used his presence in the arts community to raise awareness of the crisis. In 1989, a year before his death, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, whose mission is to raise funds for AIDS organizations and children’s literacy and arts programs.
Since his death in 1990, Haring has become one of the most widely-recognized and celebrated artists of the 20th century.
More on Luna Luna:
Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy is a rescued art carnival that was staged in Germany in 1987 by Andre Heller and resurrected on a soundstage in L.A., just next to the Sixth Street Viaduct in Boyle Heights this year. The restored swings, carousels and Ferris wheel (you can look but can’t touch) come from a jaw-dropping array of artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Keith Harjng, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenny Scharf, to name a few. The revival project was spearheaded by owner, inventor Drake.
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1986
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)
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- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU354313643922
Keith Haring
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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