Eleven years after the retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, the iconic work of this gifted man, who died at 32 but known throughout the world, returns in force, in an exhibition in two locations, at the Galerie Enrico Navarra and at the Gravida Gallery, during Art Basel Paris week.
In the motto, « Art for everyone », made Keith Haring famous. We will be able to judge this, in Paris, in the major exhibition in two locations, initiated by the Galerie Enrico Navarra, with the support of the Haring Foundation in New York that the artist created in 1989. To be accessible to all, to show to as many people as possible, from collectors to kids from the Bronx, this was his dearest wish. From canvases to tarpaulin paintings, from subway graffiti to living room ceramics, from various supports crossing his path to derivative products designed, produced and distributed by him. The posters, caps, pins or t-shirts, often sold for less than a dollar, in his Pop Shop at 292 Lafayette Street, from 1986 to 2005, in the Soho district of New York.
A real public success, but not really commercial. This was not the philosophy of his democratization of art. « My main idea, justified Keith Haring, was not to produce things that would devalue…
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