KAWS, Due Leoni, 2021

Agricola Due Leoni invited KAWS to create an olive oil edition -- a slow-food, carefully handmade product. Agriculture was not too far a stretch for the endlessly curious artist, and our edition features one of his COMPANION figures floating blissfully, or ruefully, whatever the interpretation may be, in a sea of his own making. An image that has been seen in other variants, the project is typical of KAWS' genius at applying a macro-structure pantheon of his own figures and themes to any of the collaborators he works with, in both an entirely controlled and completely liberated way. The work takes the viewer to one more level, a post-Pop, and post-Conceptual use of language and cartoon iconography, operating in real time and on an organic product, in a form that purposefully extends far beyond the visual arts.

Limited edition Kaws designed oil tin

15.5 x 9.8 x 4.2 cm (6.1 x 3.86 x 1.65 in)

Edition of 500