Keith Haring was one the emblematic figures of the art scene of the eighties, who managed to speak to the widest possible audience through his works that fuse graffiti, popular and high culture. Haring, who was only 30 at the time of his death due to AIDS, would be celebrating his 50th birthday in 2008.
Haring began his artistic career in a New York subway station: he started drawing his characteristic figures – the ‘radiant baby’, the dog, the flying saucers – on vacant advertising billboards. Soon the most prestigious galleries and museums opened their doors for him.
He elaborated his complex system of symbols starting from 1984, in which the symbols of the consumer-culture of the U.S. are mixed with the universal symbols of media, culture and art-history, to form a singular, 20th century book of beasts. Along with the easily identifiable and understandable style, the fact that he popularized his art on a most diverse palette in his environment also backed his enormous success: his art could be seen in underpasses, on billboards, and on all various commercial products, which he sold in his own shop, the Pop Shop.
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art is the first to showcase a comprehensive selection from the art of Keith Haring, in collaboration with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York.
Date: August 15-November 16
Place: Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
Open Tue.-Sun. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Tel.: +36.1.555.3444
Place: Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
Open Tue.-Sun. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Tel.: +36.1.555.3444
Photo:
Untitled, 1981
felt-tip pen on paper
50,1 x 66cm
© Estate of Keith Haring, New York
Untitled, 1981
felt-tip pen on paper
50,1 x 66cm
© Estate of Keith Haring, New York
