Tom Sachs’s first major sculpture exhibit was "Cultural Prosthetics". His art style includes recreating many modern symbols into sculptures to show contemporary societies obsession with materialism and branded goods, further emphasized with a recreation of the Virgin Mary Nativity scene, titled "Hello Kitty Nativity".
« If you worship money, you’ll always feel poor. I worship innovation and I always feel like I’m not doing enough new stuff. That’s my impulsiveness. »
Tom Sachs
This exhibit showed Hello Kitty as the Virgin Mary, the three kings as Bart Simpson, and the manger with a Mcdonald's logo. This received much attention, although not all positive, it made Tom Sachs debut as a contemporary sculptor. Tom
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Tom Sachs’s first major sculpture exhibit was "Cultural Prosthetics". His art style includes recreating many modern symbols into sculptures to show contemporary societies obsession with materialism and branded goods, further emphasized with a recreation of the Virgin Mary Nativity scene, titled "Hello Kitty Nativity".
« If you worship money, you’ll always feel poor. I worship innovation and I always feel like I’m not doing enough new stuff. That’s my impulsiveness. »
Tom Sachs
This exhibit showed Hello Kitty as the Virgin Mary, the three kings as Bart Simpson, and the manger with a Mcdonald's logo. This received much attention, although not all positive, it made Tom Sachs debut as a contemporary sculptor. Tom Sachs’s work showed how he believed anything could be created and refurbished, having his sculptures simplify all modern products, giving the final result as complete, but always capable of being redone. (
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