Pop Shop VI is where Keith Haring’s figures turn into signs. In these four screenprints, made in 1989, bodies lock together and bend into shapes, in places forming a hand or a cross, all in bold colours held in thick black outline, with energy lines running from one body to the next in a show of solidarity and community.
The linked, energy-passing figures have a source that is easy to miss. According to Robert Farris Thompson, the Yale scholar who knew Haring, he owed some of his most expressive dancing outlines to the dancers at the Paradise Garage, the SoHo club where in 1985 he painted Grace Jones’s body, and to electric boogie, in which dancers pass a charge from one body to the next. Haring called the club “one of the biggest influences on my entire life”. Seen that way, the portfolio is about moving together: bodies that link, pass energy along and, in the right arrangement, spell out a symbol. It is the sixth and last of the Pop Shop portfolios, made the year before Haring died, and for collectors it is the clearest statement of what a group of people can build when they act together.
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Untitled 1–6 (1982) Portfolio
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Fertility Portfolio
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Montreux Jazz Festival
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Free South Africa
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Ludo
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Three Lithographs
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Andy Mouse
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Bad Boys
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Lucky Strike
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Untitled 1–4 (1987)
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Apocalypse
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Growing
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Pop Shop I
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Pop Shop II
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Pop Shop III
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Pop Shop IV
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Pop Shop V
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Pop Shop VI
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Chocolate Buddha
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Pyramid
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Stones
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The Story of Red and Blue
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The Valley
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Totem
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Untitled Etchings (1989)
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Blueprint Drawings
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Flowers
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Icons
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White Icons
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Single Prints
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