Artist: Kenny Scharf
Title: Swirley: Pucci Mini Mannequin (Embellished)
Size: 27.25 x 5.5 x 5.5 Inches
Medium: Acrylic on Sculpted Resin Sculpture
Edition: Very Scarce - Limited
Year: 1998
Notes: Sculpture does show signs of age. Unsigned. Apart of Ralph Pucci's 1998 Mannequin Exhibition. Listed on the Scharf Website under Products, 'Pucci 1998'. No longer available, very rare, uniquely hand embellished. Bring home a piece of Fashion History.
About: Kenny Scharf is a legendary American artist who was a pioneer in the iconic 1980s East Village street art scene in New York. Together with artists such as Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Scharf helped spearhead the aesthetics of the era, co-authoring arguably the most essential chapter in street art history by positioning it as an equal player on the contemporary art world’s main stage. Today, the Californian is widely recognized as one of the most important figures in the ‘Lowbrow Pop Surrealism’ art movement, which is characterized by abstract imagery merging with dreamy cartoon characters, and is rooted in comics, punk music, and graffiti and street culture.
Like many other children growing up during Pop Art's cultural boom in the 1960s, Scharf was greatly impacted by images of popular and commercial culture that permeated and shaped American collective consciousness. But, unlike other kids, Scharf's interests went beyond clipping out photographs from magazines to stick on his bedroom wall. Instead, he found joy in finding expression on the streets, where, with a spray paint can in hand, he could share his unique, Day-Glo, psychedelic pictures with the public.
In his works, Scharf employs a range of techniques, media and allusions to create hallucinatory compositions bursting with bright colors, bold patterns, and dreamlike metaphors, featuring a host of anthropomorphic creatures, extraterrestrial beings, and comic book motifs.