The gallery is hailing it as a portal to a new era. But our critic benlukeart disagrees.
I’ve always thought KAWS fails in one of his most vaunted claims about Companion and co. “I wanted him to have a human sensibility,” he said. In the hunched postures, the bowed heads, the works where Companion lies prostrate, for instance, he aimed to imbue them with human flaws, apparently in contrast to the characters who inspired them. But there’s nothing interesting about them: they’re blank but not in a fascinatingly inscrutable way. There’s no possibility of emotional connection with them.
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