KAWS: ALONE AGAIN
KAWS: ALONE AGAIN is a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist KAWS (American, born 1974), organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder in close collaboration with the artist. Featuring five sculptures, a site specific wall work, and three paintings, this highly anticipated exhibition will occupy the main exhibition space of the museum. ALONE AGAIN will showcase the artist’s masterful compositions that appear to be abstract while retaining the artist’s colorful acrylic palette with his trademark motif. Riffing on specific genres of pop art, figuration, deconstruction, collage, and fashion, the exhibition represents an underlying irreverence and affection for our turbulent times, as well as KAWS’ agility as an artist to appropriate and transform.
Made in collaboration with the Library Street Collective, the momentous presentation is comprised of three large-scale paintings, five sculptures, and a sprawling wall mural. Highlights include the Brooklyn artist’s FINAL DAYS wooden sculpture in black standing nearly 20 feet tall and the 72-by-120-inch painting entitled FAR FAR DOWN that features an intricate abstract composition made using acrylic paints.
“Riffing on specific genres of pop art, figuration, deconstruction, collage, and fashion, the exhibition represents an underlying irreverence and affection for our turbulent times, as well as KAWS’ agility as an artist to appropriate and transform,” said the museum in a statement.
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