Screen print on black stock paper. Hand signed and dated in pencil on the right. Unnumbered, from an edition of 50. Published by Elms Lesters.
'Companion vs Astroboy' by KAWS is a screen-print rendered entirely in white line on a flat grey ground. The composition pairs two figures: KAWS's signature Companion — identifiable by its four-lobed Mickey-derived skull and cross-mark eyes — looming above a wide-stance Astro Boy, whose own eyes and shoes bear the same X motifs. Both characters are reduced to clean, unbroken outlines with no interior fill or shading, flattening them into graphic silhouettes. Produced in 2002, the work is hand-signed in the lower right margin and from a numbered edition. At this stage KAWS had already built a practice around infiltrating and distorting mass-media imagery — corporate advertising, animation, streetwear — and the pairing here directly enacts that method: Companion physically inhabits Astro Boy's body, substituting one borrowed icon for another rather than simply referencing them from a distance.
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Screen print on black stock paper. Hand signed and dated in pencil on the right. Unnumbered, from an edition of 50. Published by Elms Lesters.
'Companion vs Astroboy' by KAWS is a screen-print rendered entirely in white line on a flat grey ground. The composition pairs two figures: KAWS's signature Companion — identifiable by its four-lobed Mickey-derived skull and cross-mark eyes — looming above a wide-stance Astro Boy, whose own eyes and shoes bear the same X motifs. Both characters are reduced to clean, unbroken outlines with no interior fill or shading, flattening them into graphic silhouettes. Produced in 2002, the work is hand-signed in the lower right margin and from a numbered edition. At this stage KAWS had already built a practice around infiltrating and distorting mass-media imagery — corporate advertising, animation, streetwear — and the pairing here directly enacts that method: Companion physically inhabits Astro Boy's body, substituting one borrowed icon for another rather than simply referencing them from a distance.
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Companion vs Astroboy, 2002
90 x 65.7 cm
