Tim Rollins & K.O.S. A Midsummer Night's Dream (After Shakespeare and Mendelssohn) |
This work was made with a group of very young children who were asked to paint flowers using watercolours: the reference is to the sprite Puck who, in Shakespeare's comedy, symbolizes love as a type of transformation. Oberon, the King of the Fairies, orders him to find a flower from which to extract a magical juice that, trickled onto the eyelids of a slumbering person , makes him or her fall in love with the first person seen upon awakening. This incipit ..... is not only the source of the visual reference to flowers but also the use of materials such as apple juice in the pictorial impasto.
The acronym K.O.S means Kids of Survival, a group of adolescents from South Bronk that worked with the artist.
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