Had to keep this quiet until the official announcement today by the museum!
10 Dunnys and 3 Munnys created by Tristan and I were accepted this fall into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Three of the pieces, including Huck's Hello My Name Is Dunny shown above will be displayed as part of the central MOMA design galleries exhibit on the 3rd floor starting December 21, and will remain there for an entire year! We'll be in there with the 1962 Jaguar, the bubble glass helicopter hanging from the roof, and the Italian railway sign which I've been totally obsessed with for years.
I'm really just excited. For the first few years whenever I did interviews people would ask me if I considered the things we were making toys or art. I still don't have a decent answer to that question, and frankly could give a shit. I like making beautiful things, and I like the art of selling them. It's all tied together, it's all one thing.
Anyway, someone told me that Tristan and I now get free admission to the Museum for life! I hope that's true. We can stop waiting in line for the free-admission nights on Fridays.
December 15, 2007
Dunny at MOMA
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7 comments:
Enhorabuena tíos.
!Tengo la casa llena de obras de arte ¡
Congrat guys. Have my home full of fine art¡
wow, awesome! congratulations Paul, you must have the hugest smile stuck on your face right now! I'm feeling that same way from last week!
Congratulations.That's tribute on its nicest.
Treating the question 'whether art or toy' decently I definitely imagine as delicate situation.
The possibility to referring to MOMA now won't leave a doubt:)
I never hesitated to see Kidrobot as art because:
-e.g. DUNNY is painted like canvas by various artists with various expressions
-your artwork is limited
Whether art or not, Kidrobot stuff is beautiful and makes brighter living space plus captured my view on first glance.
It is a contemporary mirror of artists and of our society.
Great concept that makes art becomes affordable.
Best regards
BA
Proposal:
I'd like a numeration of sculptures like serial number.
Thank you for the kind comments.
We've thought over and over about numbering the pieces we produce, but somehow I always decided it marred the playfulness of the pieces.
You see, I always want the things we make to be toys AND art AND anything else people make of them. If I'd numbered all the Dunnys, for example, then it'd have skewed it too much in one direction.
I have friends who are art collectors who keep our toys behind glass.
And, I have friends whose kids play with our toys. they keep them in big piles and they get totally messed up, as kids toys should.
What I wonder is, if I'd numbered the toys, would kids still get to play with them?
I'll reconsider numbering; and, I just don't want the pieces to become JUST art.
Appreciate your attitude.
I like numbering because stuff is getting even more individual.
Anyway I do like the individuality Kidrobot already has due to small series, style and attitude.
Don’t start to peg Kidrobot as something spacy new, constrain the sense of your viewers or let your stuff getting putted in any kind of art genre. > nevertheless can’t contain myself… urbantoyism might fit:)
Keeping it real like it ever meant to be is definitely a cool way > Sympathy!
Paul, Its Joe again from the CORE77 NY event a few weeks back. As I said to you in person, Ill repeat again here. Your work is incredible and the way you have created an entire art movement, or at least played a huge role in its movement, is incredible. HUGE CONGRATS you totally deserve it 100%.
P.S. I have yet to email Joanna but I will get on that soon.
-Joe
You designed these? i thought it was only Tristan who designed these??/??
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