KAWS & Estudio Campana
KAWS: Companion Chair (Brown), 2019
Plush toys, stainless steel, cumaru
36 x 52 x 41 inches
91.5 x 132 x 104 cm
Edition of 25
Titled, editioned on studio label
Exhibition History:
KAWS: What Party. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. February 26 – September 5, 2021. (KAWS: Gang sofa and KAWS Chair Pink)
Campana Brothers – 35 Revolutions. Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March 14 – May 12, 2020. (KAWS Chair Pink, KAWS: Monster)
KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness. The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. September 20, 2019 – April 13, 2020. (Companion Sofa Grey)
Literature:
Simon Maidment, Margaret Atwood, and KAWS, KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness, exh. cat., Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2019, pp. 236, 323 (KAWS: Companion Sofa Grey).
Daniel Birnbaum, Eugenie Tsai (ed.), etc., KAWS: WHAT PARTY, exh. cat., New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2021, p. 138.
Museum Collection:
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Companion Sofa Grey)
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (KAWS Chair Pink)
KAWSxCampana is a collaboration between American artist KAWS and Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, leading creative forces in contemporary art and design. Considered one of the most relevant artists of his generation, KAWS (b. 1974) engages audiences beyond the museums and galleries worldwide in which he regularly exhibits. KAWSxCampana is one of the latest projects from the artist’s acclaimed multi-disciplinary practice, which includes paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, graphic and product design. With humor and playful intricacy, he draws inspiration and appropriates from pop culture animations to form a unique artistic vocabulary across various mediums. Pioneers in the global design landscape, Fernando (b. 1961) and Humberto Campana (b. 1953), formed Estudio Campana in 1983 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A radical departure from the modernist aesthetic dominant in Brazil of the time, Estudio Campana fearlessly combined sculptural and design sensibilities to create a revolutionary new discipline. Pairing traditional craftmanship with industrial techniques and unconventional materials, Estudio Campana investigate concepts of cultural over-consumption, transformation and reinvention through their designs. Estudio Campana’s works can be found in over 40 public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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