Publisher: Zhejiang Photographic Press

Publication Date: 2022

Binding: Hardcover, 65 pages

Language: Chinese

ISBN：9787551443524

From October 1, 2022 to January 29, 2023, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Somewhere Downtown,” a group exhibition celebrating the creative ferment of Downtown New York in the 1980s and spanning mediums including graffiti, painting, drawing, photography, film, sculpture, and installation. The exhibition features the work of icons such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Cindy Sherman alongside that of lesser known trailblazers, many of whose art is being shown in China for the first time.

31 Subway Drawings provides a showcase of some of Keith Haring’s most representative subway drawings, as well as photographs documenting his creative process, taken by Tseng Kwong Chi. Haring first burst onto New York’s Downtown art scene through his subway drawings. Using white chalk to draw abstracted human figures and animals on blank advertising panels on the walls of the city’s subway stations, the artist created energetic, deceptively simple works infused with layers of humor and social commentary. This publication also features essays by curator Jeffrey Deitch, the late Henry Geldzahler, one-time curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Carlo McCormick, curator of the UCCA exhibition “Somewhere Downtown.” Designed by Zhang Qian, Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings is published in Chinese as a collaboration between UCCA, House of Inspiration, and Zhejiang Photographic Press.