Tim Rollins & K.O.S
Pinocchio (After Carlo Collodi)
1992
€8950,00
Wood, acrylic, wax, tung oil
134,6 x 19,1 x 19,1 cm
Unique, in a series of 50 variants
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over dit werk
Tim Rollins began his career teaching art for special education students in a South Bronx public middle school. In 1984, he launched the Art Knowledge Workshop, which acted as an after-school program for his most dedicated students who named themselves Kids of Survival (K.O.S.). Their working method is to study important literary works together in which change and transformation take a central role, such as Shakespeare, Kafka, Aristophanes, or Malcom X.
Pinocchio (after Carlo Collodi) started from a reading of the famous story of Pinocchio and consists of an untreated piece of wood, supplemented by a pair of eyes. It shows the potential of the change, soulful eyes of a boy still trapped in a log. The eyes are replica’s of the eyes of a K.O.S. member. On the one hand, this is a self-portrayal by the individual “Kids”, on the other hand the sculpture can be viewed as a kind of commentary on the relationship between them and Tim Rollins.
Tim Rollins & K.O.S.’ Pinocchio (after Carlo Collodi) is currently on view as part of On Becoming – our first show at Cabanon.
Please note this is a historic artwork. There are some small remarks concerning its condition. Request a condition report here. Due to nature of the work, we can only ship this with a designated art transport. Get it touch to set this up.
over Tim Rollins & K.O.S
Tim Rollins was an artist, teacher and activist. In 1979, he founded Group Material in New York. In the early 1980s, he taught ‘at risk’ youth with learning disabilities at Intermediate School 52 in the Bronx and went on to create the Art & Knowledge Workshop. His highly acclaimed collaboration with the members of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) continued for many years. Rollins combined lessons in reading and writing with making artworks. The source material laid out and studied by the students generally related to literary or musical classics, but can also include comics or legal documents. Their collaborative work took the form of drawings, photographs, sculptural objects and paintings on canvas and paper. The backgrounds of works are often comprised of pages of books pasted into a grid. The results blend elements of Minimalism with an interest in the revival of painting that took place in the 1980s and in art that is socially and politically engaged.
Rollins has said: “What we’re doing changes people’s conception about who can make art, how art is made, who can learn and what’s possible, because a lot of these kids had been written off by the school system. This is our revenge.”
(courtesy of Xavier Hufkens)
Tim Rollins died in 2017 in New York. The original K.O.S. members dispersed and now live in several different American cities. Some have gone on to become artists in their own right.
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