Museum für Gegenwartskunst shows a Selection of Works by Tim Rollins + K.O.S.

artwork: Tim Rollins + KOS - "Second Study for Amerika VII", 1987 - Gold watercolor on book pages on linen, 24 x 24 inches - Photo by Larry Qualls


BASEL.- More than twenty years after the Museum für Gegenwartskunst first presented the art of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), the collective now shows a new selection of works. Based on Tim Rollins’s studies of art as a form of collaboration in which individual creativity becomes operative as an agent of social change, the works pay poetic homage to the community, but also represent a political reference to the potential inherent in each individual. The oeuvre of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. blends classical education and ‘street culture,’ erudition and spontaneity, combining elements from various artistic movements such as the function of language as a medium of artistic expression in Conceptual art and the reference to the political meaning of everyday objects in Italian Arte Povera. On exhibition through 15 April.

Back To Top