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A number of the artists featured in the Pop Life exhibition have explored the boundaries between art and commerce and the roles of artists and designers. We’ve selected just a few to get you thinking about your own design ideas.
Keith Haring Pop Shop New York City 1986. © Keith Haring Foundation. Photo: Dolfi Michels
Artists such as Keith Haring, created signature designs and products such as toys, magnets and t-shirts. The exhibition will include a reconstruction of Keith Haring’s Pop Shop (above). Haring opened the shop on New York's Lafayette Street in 1986 to merchandise his branded artistic signature as editioned objects.
There will also be an exciting new commission by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. MMurakami has worked across different media and disciplines including painting, giant inflatable sculptures and performance events. He has also designed everything from key chains, mouse pads, plush dolls, T-shirts to Louis Vuitton handbags.
There will also be a gallery dedicated to the so-called ‘Young British Artists’, which will include ephemera from Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas’s shop in Bethnal Green where they created and sold their work. Renowned pieces such as Gavin Turk’s Pop 1993 will also feature, as will selected works representing Damien Hirst’s recent Sotheby’s auction, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever.
See some of Damien Hirst’s ‘signature branded’ works in the Tate Collection:
Damien Hirst
Beans & Chips 1999
from The Last Supper
© Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst
Mushroom 1999
from The Last Supper
© Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst
Steak and Kidney 1999
from The Last Supper
© Damien Hirst
