Kenny Scharf: Moodz

Designed by Alexander Kohnke (Los Angeles) and organized chromatically, the publication gathers together the entire series of MOODZ as well as exhibition views and documentation related to the project. It features an essay by American gallerist and cultural figure Jeffrey Deitch, and an interview with the artist by Lio Malca. A poster (72 x 55 cm) on which all the faces are reproduced together as if they form a color chart accompanies the publication. Kenny Scharf is an American painter. He was born in 1958 in Los Angeles, California, where he currently lives and works. In 1978 he moved to New York to study at the BFA School of Visual Arts from which he graduated in 1980. He befriended artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring, and gained notoriety in the 1980s in New York for bridging contemporary art and graffiti. Scharf uses images from popular culture, especially from TV cartoons such as The Jetsons, The Flintstones, and The Simpsons, to bring art to everyday life. His art highlights a kind of eternal youth, a utopic colorful pop world full of comical monsters, floating donuts, and one-eyed creatures.