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Keith Haring: Apocalypse
Pace Prints is proud to announce Apocalypse, an exhibition of limited edition prints highlighting the collaborations between Keith Haring, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin at its 521 West 26th Street Gallery.
From the very beginning of Keith Haring鈥檚 career, the influence of Beat Era poet and novelist William S. Burroughs (1914鈥�1997) and artist Brion Gysin (1916鈥�1986) was immense. Haring鈥檚 first interaction with them came in 1978. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, he happened upon the Nova Convention, a gathering of Beat poets and downtown artists, including Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, and Patti Smith. After this introduction, Haring read and followed the exact methods laid out in Burroughs and Gysin鈥檚 1977 book The Third Mind, which describes ways of breaking down language. Theirs was the text-based foundation upon which Haring broke forward with his visual style in 1980, introducing his inimitable line to their 鈥渃ut-up鈥� method, and creating a form of pictorial communication that expanded beyond what ideas in traditional language could accomplish.
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Pace Prints is proud to announce Apocalypse, an exhibition of limited edition prints highlighting the collaborations between Keith Haring, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin at its 521 West 26th Street Gallery.
From the very beginning of Keith Haring鈥檚 career, the influence of Beat Era poet and novelist William S. Burroughs (1914鈥�1997) and artist Brion Gysin (1916鈥�1986) was immense. Haring鈥檚 first interaction with them came in 1978. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, he happened upon the Nova Convention, a gathering of Beat poets and downtown artists, including Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, and Patti Smith. After this introduction, Haring read and followed the exact methods laid out in Burroughs and Gysin鈥檚 1977 book The Third Mind, which describes ways of breaking down language. Theirs was the text-based foundation upon which Haring broke forward with his visual style in 1980, introducing his inimitable line to their 鈥渃ut-up鈥� method, and creating a form of pictorial communication that expanded beyond what ideas in traditional language could accomplish.
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