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Contemporary artists Douglas Gordon, Simon Fujiwara, and Jonathan Monk are deeply influenced by the pop revolution initiated by Andy Warhol. Douglas Gordon, renowned for his provocative video installations and celebrated self-portrait series draws from the aesthetics of pop culture to explore the complexities of perception and memory. Simon Fujiwara, on the other hand, takes inspiration from Warhol's characteristic appropriation as can be seen in his celebrated series ‘Who the Baer’ addressing issues of identity, celebrity, and cultural consumption in his multidisciplinary works . Jonathan Monk, by revisiting elements of art history and pop culture, engages in a conceptual approach influenced by Warhol, shedding light on the mechanisms of artistic creation and appropriation. These contemporary artists thus continue Warhol's legacy by interpreting his pop revolution through innovative perspectives and diverse artistic expressions.Influenced by mass communication and publicity, Andy Warhol opted for machine artistry. His new technique became his hallmark and he emerged as the key figure of pop art. Warhol was intrigued by the repetition and managed to depict each subject several times in his unique way with 'the sieve'. He either used different colors or different mediums and managed to convince us with a complex but fascinating oeuvre of a redefinition of the visual arts. 'The Flower', a Hibiscus flower, is one of his most iconic images. Warhol found the photo of this in the magazine 'Modern Photography', from the photographer Patricia Caultfield. In 1966, Andy Warhol was accused of plagiarism, although his entire pop oeuvre was typical of the use of existing objects and images from everyday life.
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Simon Fujiwara
Who's Immersed in Identity Soup? (Drowning Baer), 2023Collage and graphite on Silkscreen print
59,6 x 99,6 x 3,5 cm (framed)
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Who the Baer
Who the Baer was developed by the artist during the first pandemic lockdown as a ‘Dada-esque response to an increasingly absurd and incomprehensible world.’ Fujiwara’s character takes the form of an identity-free cartoon bear named ‘Who’ that moves through a hyper-mediated, image-obsessed world in search of a true self. With seemingly no race, no gender and no sexuality, ‘Who’ is only recognizable by their white fur, golden heart and impossibly long tongue. Doomed to forever be ‘only 2 dimensional’ and trapped in their status as an image, ‘Who’ poses earnest questions on the nature of a ‘true and authentic self’ in an era of hyper technological mediation. ‘Who’ has the unique ability to shapeshift and perform any identity they wish. Will ‘Who’ ever find a true, authentic self? For a cartoon character, isn’t it enough to simply appear to be authentic? Fujiwara reshape and reinvent 20th century masterpieces through the lens of Who the Baer and explore themes from gender identity and image culture to internet dating and cultural appropriation. Working though the canon of Western art historical icons - from Picasso and Matisse to Basquiat and Warhol - Fujiwara’s Who the Baer pastiche paintings and collages invites audiences on a journey through 20th century art history. Presented as a fairy tale of endless possibilities, the works shed light on the philosophical struggle of Who the Baer as they transform endlessly in their restless desire just to ‘be’. Since its debut in 2021 at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, exhibitions of Fujiwara’s acclaimed series Who the Bær have travelled to Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam and Prada Aoyama, Tokyo and KIASMA, Helsinki. The series has also been presented across multiple media, from painting and sculpture, full scale installations, stop frame animations and a children’s book, to a Whotique – a boutique of Who the Bær – that produces merchandise by ‘Who’ and has collaborated with world-renowned fashion labels. Who the Bær can also be followed via their official Instagram account: @whothebaer
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Douglas Gordon
Self Portrait of You + Me (Elvis 6 Pistols), 2019burned print, smoke, mirror and acetone
72.6 x 123.6 x 5 cm
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Exhibit Model Details with Additional Information
The ‘Exhibit Model Details with Additional Information’ are installation views of former exhibitions. Three-dimensional artwork editions and everyday objects belonging to popular culture are added to the photographic support, makinga new collage/composition opening up for new interpretations. Several time periods and sensations are presented simultaneously and overlap each other. According to the artist: ’This particular series of works does (kind of) feed from itself. Images of them installed may even become wallpaper within the Exhibit Model series and they potentially become part of this series again, vanishing into the documentation of documentation.
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Jonathan Monk
Exhibit Model Detail with Additional Information XIII, 2020inkjet print on aludibond in grey shadowbox frame,
total size 135,5 x 102,6 x 6cm
Nirvana – Nevermind, 1991 in plexiglas box (32,1x32,1x2,5cm);
Kippenberger bookmark aka: King Size, published by W.König 1991 (30,5 x 22 x 1,7cm);
pizza cast from real in PU resins and silicones (15x12x3cm)
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Jonathan Monk
Exhibit Model Detail with Additional Information IV, 2020inkjet print on aludibond, Daniel Buren printed stripe in plexiglass case; 1916 Man Ray portrait of Marcel Duchamp, reproduced 1992 in yellow plexiglass case; Morrissey and Marr magazine page (signed by Morrissey) in wooden frame
123 x 163 x 7,5 cm
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ART basel honk kong 2024
Booth 3c25
Chaya Hazan
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