A multi-stop curator’s tour of KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness at the National Gallery of Victoria by Simon Maidment.
KAWS: THE EARLY DAYS
Explore KAWS: COMPANIONSHIP IN THE AGE OF LONELINESS with NGV Senior Curator, Dr Simon Maidment as he discovers KAWS’s early years. This is the first part of a three-part series that walks through the exhibition in full.
KAWS: THE INFLUENCE OF POP-CULTURE
Explore KAWS: COMPANIONSHIP IN THE AGE OF LONELINESS with NGV Senior Curator, Dr Simon Maidment as he explores KAWS’s cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters drawn from pop-culture animation across generations.
KAWS: THE ABSTRACTIONIST AND CONTEMPORARY COLOURIST
NGV Curator Dr. Simon Maidment explores KAWS’s work as a skilled abstractionist and contemporary colourist. Here we see the influence of KAWS’s background as an animator on his use of colour and the precision in his technique.
KAWS: AN EXPLORATION OF HUMAN EMOTIONS
NGV Curator Dr. Simon Maidment, reflects on KAWS’s sculptures which often portray intense human emotions like fragility, humility and vulnerability while engaging with contemporary social issues.
