Keith Haring Exhibition

Pace Prints Chelsea

poster for Keith Haring Exhibition

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In cooperation with the Keith Haring Foundation, Pace Prints presents Keith Haring.

Keith Haring highlights the artist’s black and white compositions, prime examples of his purity of line and energetic process. Exhibited for the first time is Retrospect (1989), comprised of twenty-four images from Haring’s Pop Shop series in a rare edition of 10. Also on view is the lithograph Dog, (1985), in which Haring’s signature creature becomes the structure to house an assortment of televisions, angels, devils and autonomous creatures addressing life, power and chaos.

The largest print in the artist’s oeuvre, Untitled (1986), depicts a hydra-like figure, whose head of tentacles morphs into individual bodies. Abandoning conventions of Western pictorial language, Haring’s aggressively flat, lineament-al Stones (Portfolio) (1989) is unique for its use of negative space as line, and speaks to the influence of pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican and Aboriginal art on the artist’s work.

Also featured are two documentation videos from 1979, Painting Himself into a Corner and Circle Play, which speak to the performative nature of Haring’s practice and illustrate the fluidity of his line. In a Flash Art text from 1984, Haring described his art-making process as, “Total control with no control at all. The artist becomes a vessel to let the world pour through him.”

Of the thousands of works on paper created between 1978 and Haring’s untimely death in 1990, only a relatively small percentage were limited edition prints. The Keith Haring exhibition includes several behind-the-scenes photographs of Haring creating works in various printmaking studios around the world.

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Schedule

from November 14, 2014 to December 24, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-11-13 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Keith Haring

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