keith haring narrated

KEITH HARINGNARRATED

November 12 - December 14, 2015Opening Night November 12th, 2015

From 6:00 to 9:00 pm

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Keith Haring Narrated

Keith Haring was and remains an irreplaceable symbol of the freedom that ate metropolitan streets and drank the night air of that wonderfully accursed place, the East Village. His art work has a marvelous capacity to convey the spiritual anarchy of an artist outside the normal confines. Haring has become the one most loved artists by the younger generations on every continent. He has gained an indefinable number of admirers who can be found everywhere, whether among the ranks of the wealthy and middle class, or on the impersonal edges of our cities, where walls and graffiti form the open air salon of the young. It is sobering to reflect the extent to which an artist, year after year, is able to exert an influence on the culture of vast numbers of people.

Haring was shaped by the street spirit of an overflowing and uncontrollable phenomenon of the eighties, know as "Street Art". However, it is important to look at Haring's whole body of work, and not just his graffiti work. Keith Haring seems to have been the spokesman for a "political" art with a powerful capacity for communication. His paintings on canvas, chalk drawings on black paper, and his graphic works were to become a far more subtle means of communication than the sledgehammer methods of graffiti on a grand scale.

Effortless, but also in the depth of its own signs, brought to the highest degree of formal childishness, Haring's work shows how synthesis is not just the beginning, but also the endpoint of any progressive evolution. Beyond the aesthetic style, beats and throbs the morality of the artist, ready to attack the eyes, the heart, and the head of every observer.

The messages are easy to decode, but have behind them, a long path of ethical development that has endowed their contents with great structural force. Frenzied consumption, global dehumanization of the human race, increasing levels of pollution, sexual prohibitions, prejudice against homosexuals, and social phobias amidst systematic automatisms and robotisms, are just a few of the many messages that Keith Haring's art works deals with.

The genius of his artwork not only lies in the messages, but also in the brilliant manner in which Haring tackled these risky subjects. The emergence of animals at the center of new and universal concepts of purity, children who find their way to the hub of the metropolitan scene, symbolic pyramids, cheerful pregnancies, flying angels, amorous couplings, these are just some of the images that Keith Haring's whole course of development has clung to this double track of themes, that his irony turns into a single, pictorial body where gaiety and softness becomes the radiant surface of a complex body of work.

Gregg Shienbaum

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Andy Mouse #3, 1986Silkscreen38 x 38 in. (96,5 x 96,5 cm.)Edition of 30Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Best Buddies, 1990Silkscreen26 x 32 in. (66 x 81 cm.)Edition of 100Signed, dated, and numbered on verso by Julia Gruen, Executor of the Keith Haring Estate










Blueprint Drawing #15, 1990Silkscreen42 1/2 x 47 in. (107,95 x 119,38 cm.)Edition of 33Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Blueprint Drawing #17, 1990Silkscreen42 1/2 x 46 1/2 in. (107,95 x 118,11 cm.)Edition of 33Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Chocolate Buddah #1, 1989Lithograph22 x 27 3/4 in. (56 x 70,5 cm.)Edition of 90Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Chocolate Buddah #4, 1989Lithograph22 x 27 3/4 in. (56 x 70,5 cm.)Edition of 90Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Untitled (Cup Man), 1989Silkscreen30 x 20 3/4 in. (76 x 53 cm.)Edition of 100Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Dog, 1981Collage cut out on paper9 x 12 in. (22,86 x 30,4 cm.)UniqueSigned and dated in ink










Fertility 1, 1983Silkscreen42 x 50 in. (106,68 x 127 cm)Printer's Proof (P.P.) edition of 5Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Fertility 2, 1983Silkscreen42 x 50 in. (106,68 x 127 cm.)Edition of 100Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Keith Haring(American, 1958-1990)

Flower #3, 1990Silkscreen36 x 50 in. (91,5 x 127 cm.)Edition of 100Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Untitled (Free South Africa #1), 1985Lithograph32 x 40 in. (81,2 x 101,6 cm.)Edition of 60Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Untitled (Free South Africa #2), 1985Lithograph32 x 40 in. (81 x 101,6 cm.)Edition of 60Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Untitled (Free South Africa #3), 1985Lithograph40 x 32 in. (101,6 x 81 cm.)Edition of 60Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Growing #1, 1988Screenprint40 x 30 in. (101,6 x 76,2 cm.)Edition of 100Signed, dated and numbered in pencil












Lucky Strike I, 1987Silkscreen11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (29,46 x 21,84 cm.)Edition of 30Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Ludo #3, 1985Lithograph19 x 26 in. (48,26 x 66,04 cm.)Edition of 90Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Ludo #5, 1985Lithograph19 x 26 in. (48 x 66 cm)Edition of 90Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Pop Shop III (B), 1989SIlkscreen13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (34 x 42 cm.)Edition of 200Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Pop Shop III (C), 1989Silkscreen13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (34,3 x 42 cm.)Edition of 200Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Pop Shop IV (C), 1989SIlkscreen13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (34 x 42 cm.)Edition of 200Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Pyramid #1, 1989Anodized aluminum41 x 56 1/2 x 1 in. (104 x 143,5 x 2,5 cm.)Edition of 30Signature and number etched on verso










Retrospect, 1989Silkscreen46 x 82 in. (116,8 x 208,2 cm.)Edition of 75Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Subway Drawing (Untitled), 1982White chalk on black paper44 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (113 x 60 cm.)










Subway Drawing (Untitled), 1982White chalk on black paper mounted on linen49 x 34 in. (124 x 86 cm.)

Reference: "KEITH HARING. Subway Blackboards And Street Art 1980-86", Galleria Giulia - arte contemporanea Via Giulia 148 Roma, edited by Gianluca Marziani and Paolo Buggiani, 1996, p. 16.










Subway Drawing (Oh! Calcutta!), 1982White chalk on black paper mounted on linen35 7/16 x 24 in. (90 x 61 cm.)

Reference: "KEITH HARING. Subway Blackboards And Street Art 1980-86", Galleria Giulia - arte contemporanea Via Giulia 148 Roma, edited by Gianluca Marziani and Paolo Buggiani, 1996, p. 29-31.










Untitled 'Double Man' (Bill T. Jones), 1986Lithograph22 x 30 in. (55,8 x 76,2 cm.)Edition of 85Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Untitled (Man On A Dolphin), 1987Lithograph29 1/2 x 35 3/8 in. (75 x 89,8 cm.)Edition of 170Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










Untitled 4, 1982Lithograph24 x 36 in. (60,96 x 91,44 cm.)Edition of 40Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










USA 19-82, 1982Lithograph22 x 30 in. (55,8 x 76,2 cm.)Edition of 50Signed, dated and numbered in pencil










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