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Download the free Acute Art app by using the buttons to the right and Serpentine’s free wi-fi.Ģ. View the augmented reality artworks on your smartphone both indoors and outside the gallery.ġ. All the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition as well as a miniature version of the entire show exist as AR works on the Acute Art app and can be placed and viewed at home. The Acute Art app offers a bridge between each of the different worlds. They can also be shared on social media, making KAWS’ art visible across the world. All the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition as well as a miniature version of the entire show will exist as AR works on the Acute Art app and can be placed and viewed at home by viewers globally. In addition to the Fortnite collaboration, Serpentine and KAWS will use an app developed by Acute Art to offer a bridge between the virtual and the physical worlds. A parallel digital version of the show launches simultaneously in Fortnite, a video game developed by Epic Games. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Acute Art and curated by Acute Art’s Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum. In his first major solo exhibition in London, NEW FICTION, KAWS (Brian Donnelly b.1974) presents new and recent works in physical and augmented reality at Serpentine North from 18 January – 27 February 2022. It probably wasn’t Donnelly’s plan to become the conglomerate.Serpentine start 2022 with a multi-layered global project with the internationally acclaimed artist KAWS developed in collaboration with Acute Art and the online video game Fortnite. But he also shows that the work’s strengths are also its weaknesses. The art world prefers not to engage with commercialism, its best worst kept secret - what is any art gallery if not a store? Donnelly’s work is an attempt to make visible the hidden side of consumer art. This is the quality that makes people uneasy. Because of his close work with consumerism, this feels like a part of the show. KAWS presents new AR works, allowing visitors to interact virtually with his sculptures using their smartphones to create their own experience.įinishing off Kaw’s collection is a gallery-size gift shop, a monument to his merchandising potency. He teams up with Acute Art, a digital art platform directed by acclaimed Swedish curator Daniel Birnbaum. Additionally, he invites explore our own relationship with and connection to objects. KAWS invites us to engage with his work, both in person and virtually. He emphasizes that even within a cultural environment shaped by image and consumption, universal emotions such as love, friendship, loneliness, and alienation remain constant. The aesthetic and the transcendent, the commodified and the priceless. KAWS’s practice acknowledges that works of art can occupy multiple realms. It also features new pieces made uniquely for the exhibition along with his early-career altered advertisements. KAWS: WHAT PARTY is a sweeping survey featuring more than one hundred broad-ranging works, such as rarely seen graffiti drawings and notebooks, paintings and sculptures, smaller collectibles, furniture, and monumental installations of his popular figures.
His practice both critiques and participates in consumer culture. He adapts the rules of cultural production and consumption in the twenty-first century. Brooklyn Museum Exhibit Kaws: What Partyįor twenty-five years, Brooklyn-based artist KAWS (Brian Donnelly, American, born 1974) has bridged the worlds of art, popular culture, and commerce.