CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/24/2017

KAWS: transgressing the borders between art and society

“KAWSBOB 3” (2007) is reproduced from KAWS: Where the End Starts, published to accompany MAM Fort Worth's recent exhibition. An impressive piece of bookmaking with three-piece binding of cloth, faux leather and paper over board, impeccable reproductions and illuminating texts, this volume sold out upon release when it first came out. We are delighted to have a new shipment in stock for the fall season. “KAWS consciously chooses the material quality of plastic and the visual language of cartoons,” Dieter Buchhart writes. “He uses their media omnipresence as a tool to transgress the borders between art and society and to penetrate various social realms … evoking deep emotions and moments of violence …”