[UPDATE]
Hey again,
After gathering messages from the FB group print and UAA inbox here is the updated list
To be clear, i am the one gathering the infos on the buyers (including me)
Once i'll have the list of the 9 people with their contact info, payment method, adress etc... i'll transfer it to the gallery which will send the invoices
Once the 10 payments will be done, gallery will ship the prints 🙂
Print 1 is the only one available but FEEL FREE to send me your interest on prints so if a buyer backs out you're next on the list !!!!
Best
Raph

I will repeat, find me another guy who wants to split/ invoice / ship x10 at 35k$ and I immediately move forward to the guy with the others

Reasoning as a set is different that splitting IMO
But thanks a lot for your intervention
I’ve seen unique prints sold at 5.5k in 2013 on kidrobot forum too

I am not the seller so I am not charging anybody !!!!!

Believe this came the gallery called gallart.com in North Miami Beach. Their prices are NOT cheap at all.

my point exactly.... the wrong price !!!

I posted a modified form of this a few years ago on this and another forum. I still view KAWS work this way, but the last four years have seen him continue to stray from what I believe to be his most effective work.  Subtlety has long since been lost.


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I will begin by saying that I have faith in KAWS as an artist, though it is more at the base level than summit. I think it will be interesting to share the following post I made on the Banksy forum in late-2008(posted as mose). It is a review of KAWS breakthrough fine art show at Gering & Lopez(see: www.nitrolicious.com/blog/2008/11/06/kaws-exhibition-gering-lopez-gallery-opening-reception/ ).



“Initially, I thought that the colorway heads were a self-indulgent mess. Later, I began to appreciate them as a skewering of the rabid collector mindset(especially toy/print collectors). They are a multi-colored tribute to the irrational desire to collect 'em all in order to make oneself special and to be closer to the artist(in this case, to almost literally get inside his head). I find them to be a recognition by KAWS of the obsessiveness, the pathology, that has allowed him to become 'big in Japan'.



Overall, I think the other recent works - the Smurfs and Spongebobs - are by far his best stuff to date. He is using familiar, 'innocent' icons to convey the current emotional states of the adult world. This is a time of confusion, fear, anxiety, irrational behavior, etc. all poignantly displayed via the expressional faces, and KAWS' trademark crossed eyes, of childhood legends.



I think the most significant feature, the really subversive element of KAWS newest work, is that the children's icons, now manipulated, refuse to provide the escape-from-reality, the desired regression to more carefree times, the wanting rest from the burden of carrying the weight of the world, that often fuels adult consumption of children's cartoons. As the world spirals toward madness, KAWS is giving us no quarter.



Read more: urbanartassociation.com/index.cgi#ixzz1KHH0B6w6”



Now, I’d like to quote another forum poster's well-written interpretation of KAWS body of work:



"What I see in KAWS, besides his technical skill is that he's the ANTI-WARHOL. He actually handpaints everything and I view his work as a direct response to the Pop-art movement. Even though he often uses the same imagery as Pop artists incorporate, it's more of rejection of them than it's an acceptance/influence. His work questions what makes an Icon iconic and "dissects" these memes. I think he's saying that in this day and age of ubiquitous advertising that these "icons" should NOT be made into art and championed as great work. It's very tongue in cheek. The X's are simple, and I see his work as being more influenced by minimalists and modernists than anything else. These movements were created as a rejection of the traditional art movements that dominated art for centuries and I see his work as the same with the "Pop" art that's still prevalent today. To pass of his work as simple X's on a face is missing the point COMPLETELY IMO.



This is what I like about art. It means something completely different to everyone. Maybe I'm looking into his work too deeply, but that's the beauty of art."[/quote]



Personally, I like the framing of KAWS work in terms of Pop Art but do reject his assertion that the current work is ‘tongue in cheek’. I find the current work, if anything, disconcerting and almost aggressive in its subversiveness. Expanding on my show review quoted above, KAWS best work teases with our collective, desired carefree regression by presenting iconic cartoon characters. In a world in the midst of a general debasement of human worth, who doesn’t want to curl up and mentally reconnect with our innocent, ignorant youthful selves? But, after bring us to the edge of mental escape KAWS cruelly throws us to the precipice of despair with those dead eyes and empty expressions. In doing so, I find KAWS has much in common with Mark Rothko, who famously stated, “"I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."” Sounds about right.



And I say KAWS best work does this as it is his most subtle work that I find to be the best. The lesser the distortion, the subtler the infiltration, the greater horror I see. Now, I do find much of the more blatantly emotional works, such the harried/stressed Spongebobs dripping with tension, to be excellent as well. However, they are, in a way, too easy. I look at them and I can readily see them as the mirror they are; reflecting my ever diminishing self back. Dead eyes meet deadening eyes. But that isn’t doom, and doom is where KAWS is at his best.



Read more: urbanartassociation.com/search/results?captcha_id=captcha_search&what_at_least_one=expressional&who_only_made_by=0&display_as=0&search=Search#ixzz4uRk6LSlW

You had me at 'Damien Hirst blue paintings'.  Lol.

But any article that mentions Mustafa Hulusi is A+ in my book.  Love Hulusi's work.  His s[edition] work 'Extinction' is one of my favorites.  Watch it often.

Thanks a lot everybody I have one buyer for each print (and one or two backers per each if buyer backs down)

Thanks for the constructive comments (or should I say comment as the last one was the only useful)

Best

Raph

Merci Charles Antoine !!!!

IMO sets shouldn't be split up.
I see them as one piece.

^^^^Split the blame game this way and it will sell quickly like this post. ^^^^

I'm all for splitting sets! Just my 2c... You don't need 10 prints to make a set, and who has that much wall space these days anyways... I know I definitely don't. Like a few people have mentioned above, you can't find a single kaws artwork for under 5k, more so around 10-15k... so splitting a set and taking two or three prints for that price makes much more sense. Plus, technically 2 or 3 prints from the same set, makes a much more affordable, slightly smaller set. But still a set none the less as far as the eyes can tell. If anyone is willing to split a BLAME GAME set, for a reasonable price (cheaper than this one), I'd be interested..

The blame game set is better IMO so I assume they would be the same price or even higher for an individual print.

I agree. I was trying to organize the sale for the blame game among the buyers but it seems there are too many flakes and people unwilling to commit. Unless it split in a specific way and not everyone will be content.