KAWS

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

Sculpture, Russell Tovey, Painting, Drawing, Art, Artist Interview, Arts, Studio Visit, Visual Arts, Art Talk, Contemporary Art, Entertainment, Celebrity, Modern Art, Artwork, Talk Art, Robert Diament

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In celebration of its 30th anniversary, The Warhol presents KAWS + Warhol, the first exhibition to examine the dark themes present in the work of both artists. From skulls to car crashes, both artists deploy their signature bright colors and pop culture references while also presenting the lurid spectacle of death. The dark undercurrents in the work of KAWS and Warhol are magnified and brought into plain sight by presenting the two artists together for the first time.

KAWS will also respond to Warhol’s embrace of commercialism by presenting a new series of paintings, sculptures, and installations related to his recent commission with General Mills which inserted his signature characters into the packaging for some of America’s most loved cereal boxes including Reese’s Puffs, Count Chocula, and Boo-Berry. The cereal works will be juxtaposed with Warhol’s iconic Brillo Boxes and his lesser-known series of paintings for children.

In response to The Warhol’s new initiative The Pop District, KAWS will also present a monumental wooden sculpture in Pop Park, directly across from the museum and visible from its entrance space.

https://www.warhol.org/exhibition/kaws-warhol/

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0:40.0	And I'm Robert Diemann. And is talk art. Welcome to talk art. How are you today Robert?
0:46.5	Today Russell I am feeling like a time traveler.
0:50.0	Oh that's a nice feeling because today's guesswork has often made me think about time in many different ways.
0:58.2	There's actually a sculpture in my house which is of a spaceman which got me thinking about time
1:02.1	travel to another dimension.
1:04.0	But also he has a recurring figure kind of character at the heart of his work called
1:10.0	the companion and I always feel like the companion is this kind of time-traveling
1:14.8	being that is able to go to all different nations and different places and even to space
1:19.2	and somehow connect to people without even sharing like a language, it's kind of a
1:26.5	visual language and also just this idea of humanity and how maybe in the end we are
1:31.1	actually all one and I wish more people realized that. But yeah
1:34.9	time travel is something that within art I think I've always felt a bit like a
1:39.0	time traveler because one of the things that inspires me so much, especially in my teenage years, was actually artists that had died a long, long time ago,
1:47.0	but I still felt really connected to them and to their story and to their kind of commitment to art and to survival through art.
1:55.1	People like Frida Carlo is an obvious one.
1:56.8	But I'm also really into something that connected me in you,
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