KAWS (NYC special episode)
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Talk Art NYC!!! Russell & Robert meet artist Brian Donnelly aka KAWS at his Brooklyn studio for a rare glimpse into the private world of one the world's most iconic creative figures. KAWS engages audiences far beyond the museums and galleries in which he regularly exhibits. His prolific body of influential work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, street art, graphic and production design. Over the last two decades KAWS has built a successful career with work that consistently shows his formal agility as an artist, as well as his underlying wit, irreverence, and affection for our times. The nature of his work possesses a sophiticated humour and thoughtful interplay with consumer products and collaborations with global brands from DIOR (with Kim Jones), to his own, now dormant, streetwear label OriginalFake.
He often draws inspiration and appropriates from pop-culture animations to form a unique artistic vocabulary for his works across various mediums. Now admired for his larger-than-life sculptures and hardedge paintings that emphasize line and color, KAWS' cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters are perhaps the strongest examples of his exploration of humanity. KAWS has been exhibited at the Doha Fire Station Museum, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, High Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai.
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| 0:57.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening. Wherever you are in the world, I'm Russell Tovey |
| 1:05.7 | and I'm Robert Diemann. And this is Talk Art. Welcome to Talk Art. How are you, Robert? |
| 1:11.1 | I'm feeling really noisy. Noisy in what way? Well last time I came to this studio because I've been here once before. |
| 1:18.0 | We walked in and I'd never met the artist before but you very kindly invited me and Carl Friedman to come visit him and we came to the studio and everyone was working on in the studios he our artists that we're meeting today had been painting and he had a few of his colleagues also painting with him and I think I can't remember but a few other people and everyone was really silent and I walked in and I just felt like the noisiest human being on the planet. |
| 1:43.0 | And it was like the most Zen kind of chilled out, very focused, very precise, |
| 1:48.0 | very kind of rigorous vibe. |
| 1:50.0 | And my sneakers, |
| 1:53.0 | trainers were actually like squeaking, |
| 1:55.0 | and I had a broken like thing in my shoes. |
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