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Indepth Arts News:
"Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell"
2002-05-10 until 2002-07-21
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam, ,
NL Netherlands
The American painter, graphic artist,
and sculptor, Keith Haring, is one of
the most popular artists of our time.
Eleven years after his death, his
works still have a significant impact
on the general public. Haring's
immediately recognisable figures,
such as the logos of stylised,
radiating dogs and babies, have
become part of our visual culture.
This exhibition brings the less
well-known and stylistically utterly
diverse Keith Haring into focus with
the presentation of over 80 of his
works (paintings and drawings).From
the very beginning Keith Haring
dealt with the meaning of death,
violence, and sin, of power, religion,
and redemption.
The theme of
sexuality also repeatedly challenged
him to create new images. Another
focal point of his artwork is the
depiction of the individual as part of
the anonymous mass or as an
isolated figure standing against it.
The confrontation with the immune
deficiency disease AIDS, to which
he succumbed at the age of 31, is
also the theme of many pictures and
drawings. It is only from this
perspective that we can fully
comprehend Keith Haring's
life-affirming and colourful "icons" as
alternative images of hopeDuring
the exhibition a party of wel known
graffiti artists wil present their work
on the wall surrounding the
museums' building site.
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