Keith Haring - Fun Gallery Exhibition 1983 - Giclée - 62x52 - Artestar licensed print - COA

Giclée reproduce (*) of Keith Haring (**)
Reproduction of the work “Fun Gallery” created by Haring in 1983.
Luxury edition on conservation-grade matte digital paper of 250 g/m². A very versatile, high-quality paper, manufactured in Germany with acid- and chlorine-free wood pulp.
Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

- Sheet dimensions: 52 x 62 cm
- Motif dimensions: 40 x 50 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be tracked (UPS DPD DHL FedEx).

The shipment will also include transit insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Giclée is a term that refers to a high-quality fine art print produced digitally with inkjet printers. This process uses pigment-based inks and specialized papers to achieve sharpness, color accuracy, and durability, ideal for art reproductions and photographs.

(**) Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
He grew up in Kutztown and from a young age showed a strong interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburg, and at 19, openly gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts where he received the influence of Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color.
Haring drew public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with markers on the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted white chalk cartoons on black advertising panels, which earned him more than one arrest.
His clean lines, vivid colors, and active figures carried strong messages about life and unity, and his exhibitions were filmed by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi.
Around the same time, he organized an exhibition at Club 57, and participated in a show in Times Square, where he drew animals and human faces for the first time.
His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel, Germany.
In 1982 he befriended emerging artists of the era such as Kenny Scharf, Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol.
In 1984 Haring went to Australia and painted several murals in Melbourne and Sydney, and even received money for his work from the Victoria National Gallery and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
He also visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Paris Modern Art Museum, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
During this period, he even designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux hosted a solo exhibition of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale.
He appeared in November that year on the MTV channel where he painted on a show hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’s body for her music video for the song “I’m Not Perfect,” and opened a shop to sell his works in SOHO.
By then, his works began to reflect the socio-political issues of the era, such as anti-apartheid, AIDS, and drugs.
He also created pop art pieces for brands like Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike and Coca-Cola, and even designed the cover of the charity album “A Very Special Christmas,” on which his friend Madonna was included.
In 1988 he was included in a select list of artists whose works appeared on Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he opened the Keith Haring Foundation with the aim of fighting social issues related to this disease and raising awareness of the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and his licensed works.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the Sant’Antonio church convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32, a victim of AIDS.

(**) Of epic scale and ambition, Tree of Life (1985) was created at the height of the tragically short but intensely dynamic life and career of Keith Haring. At over three and a half meters tall, Tree of Life attains almost biblical proportions in its representation of this fantastical scene. A fusion of punk and pop, Haring injects contemporary energy into this decidedly urban celebration that fuses established religious themes and references to the history of traditional art with his distinctive culture of modern street art. Emanating from the whirling branches, a plethora of life explodes in the form of dancing bodies, like an explosion of knowledge. Under the tree, four yellow-spotted fully formed figures stand upright in exaltation. With economical linework, the green branches, bright as daylight, seem to vibrate against the fuchsia in a carnival of rhythmic patterns. "Look, when I paint, it’s an experience that, at its best, transcends reality," Haring said, explaining that this dimension was also reflected in his mental state while working. “When it works, you transport yourself to another place, you connect with things that are totally universal, of total consciousness, completely beyond your ego and your own being. That’s what it’s about” (K. Haring, quoted in D. Sheff, “Keith Haring: An Intimate Conversation,” in Rolling Stone, August 1989, reproduced at www.haring.com [visited May 25, 2014]). “Tree of Life” has been exhibited at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen, the Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Milan Triennale in Milan, and the Dexia Banque Internationale de Luxembourg."