KAWS : companionship in the age of loneliness (brand new copy)

A$125 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Edited by Simon Maidment ; with text by Margaret Atwood. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, edges pink, pp. xi, 333, colour illustrations. A brand new, mint copy, still sealed in publisher s shrink-wrap, purchased brand new from the National Gallery of Victoria at the time of the groundbreaking solo exhibition, and placed in storage since. Contemporary American artist KAWS, a.k.a Brian Donnelly, is one of the most resonant artists of his generation. In an Australian first, KAWS: Companionship In The Age Of Loneliness is a comprehensive survey of 25 years of KAWS s oeuvre, full of humour, hope and humanity, celebrating his ability to connect with broad audiences. The full range of KAWS s artistic output will be on display featuring more than 100 works including iconic paintings reappropriating pop-culture figures to his more recent large-scale abstract works, and an impressive collection of his celebrated sculptural figures. KAWS engages with universal feelings of isolation and loneliness through his works, in reaction to the turbulent world we live in today. His larger-than-life sculptures are playful, toy-like figures, however at closer look, they reveal a fragility and darkness in the vulnerable poses of the characters. The exhibition will include a newly commissioned 7-metre bronze COMPANION sculpture GONE, 2019, standing solemnly in a Pietà pose, evoking a sense of sorrow and empathy. On display in the NGV s Federation Court, this

Binding: Hardcover

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