Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2022

Zeit Contemporary Art is pleased to participate in the Hamptons Fine Art Fair from July 14 to 17 with a presentation focused on Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, including paintings, screenprints, and photographs. The presentation brings together two defining figures in the evolution of Pop Art across the second half of the twentieth century. Warhol helped establish Pop Art as a disruptive force in the 1960s, while Haring emerged from the downtown street-art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The two artists met in 1982, when photographer Christopher Makos brought Haring to Warhol’s Factory. Although their visual languages differ, both artists expanded the boundaries of high art, engaged mass media and popular imagery, and understood art as a direct form of public communication.

Among the works on view is Keith Haring’s complete Icons portfolio, created in 1990, the final year of the artist’s life. Comprising five embossed screenprints, the series brings together some of Haring’s most recognizable symbolic figures, addressing themes of life, death, innocence, desire, and human vulnerability. Seen together, the images read as a concentrated reflection on the full range of human experience and as one of Haring’s final statements in printmaking. ZCA will also present the complete Pop Shop IV suite from 1989, which includes emblematic motifs such as the barking dog and radiant baby, images that became central to Haring’s visual legacy.

The presentation also includes several key works by Warhol, from his celebrated Cow imagery, first introduced as wallpaper at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966, to paintings from the 1980s such as Candy Box and Valentine’s Hearts Ad (Heart Fund), which reflect on affection, friendship, and love through the visual language of advertising and popular culture. A selection of Warhol Polaroids will also be featured, including Bananas from 1978, alongside screenprints such as Birmingham Race Riot from 1964. Related to Warhol’s Death and Disaster series, Birmingham Race Riot uses a stark press image of violence to examine media circulation, public trauma, and the unsettling distance between spectatorship and real-world events.