KENNY SCHARF
SUPER POP UNIVERSE
'We all had very different styles, Keith and Jean-Michel and me, but very similar philosophies. We used each other to make each other excited, even if it was tinged with jealousy. It lit a fire in you. And the same thing happened when they were gone.' - Kenny Scharf
an exhibition of Kenny Scharf, a living legend of Pop Art whose ingenious works incorporate social messages through animated characters in science fiction settings, as inspired by the fast-growing pop culture of 1970s New York. It is the first-ever grand-scale exhibition to feature over 100 works by Kenny Scharf, including his paintings, sculptures, drawings and videos.
His exhibition was held at the recently opened Jamsil Lotte Art Museum.
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As soon as I enter, exciting music flows and hectic lighting shines.
Specially featured in this exhibition are The Jetstons series, Cosmic Cavern, and other major works by Scharf that reflect his perspective on the world. Scharf’s artistic vision was heavily influenced by animated cartoons he watched as a young boy on color television (a new invention at the time). One such cartoon, the Flintstones, is a story involving a family in the stone age, while the aforementioned the Jetsons is set in the futuristic space age. Using these shows as a medium, Scharf combines the two cartoons to create a new story titled the Jetstones.
a face painted on the back of the TV
Kenny Scharf turns the mundanity of everyday life into a marvelous playground. He can breathe new life into detritus just as effortlessly as he can create a new artwork out of random cars on the street by merely painting on them. An ordinary donut becomes a spaceship heading for utopia. The anxieties over war and the environment are amplified through caricature and humor. Interconnected in his work are visions of the past, the present and the future, inducing us to confront the social issues of the present.
This exhibition is re-examine Scharf’s unique worldview in the larger context of visual culture and Pop Art, and provide viewers with a magical experience in which art transforms life, and reality melds into fantasy.
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