Pop Shop Drawings
March 13 — April 13, 2019
Brussels
Gladstone is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by Keith Haring, most of which have not been shown since they were created in the late 1980s. Made for his iconic Pop Shop, the series of drawings in this show served as the underlying artwork for prints and other Pop Shop merchandise. Depicting a variety of forms and figures in the artist’s signature style, these black and white compositions demonstrate Haring’s career-long exploration of the medium of drawing and his astute ability to create a unique version of reality using a distinct visual language.
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Keith Haring Self-portrait wearing glasses painted by Kenny Scharf, Polaroid, circa 1980.
© Keith Haring Foundation.
Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania and died at the age of thirty-one of AIDS-related illnesses in New York City in 1990. Since his death, his work has been the subject of major institutional solo exhibitions around the world, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Broad, Los Angeles; Tate Liverpool; the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Kunsthal Rotterdam. In 1994, the Castello di Rivoli hosted a major solo exhibition of Haring’s work, and in 1997, the Whitney Museum of American Art staged a retrospective of Haring’s work that traveled internationally. In 2012, “Keith Haring: 1978-1982”, co-organized in 2010 by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Haring’s work is in major private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
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