For the Luna Luna art amusement park in 1987, Austrian cartoonist Manfred Deix designed the Palace of the Winds, a theatrical façade featuring absurd and irreverent scenes, such as farting performers accompanied by classical music. Deix's satirical and grotesque caricatures that explored taboo subjects such as sexuality, politics, and societal norms, became deeply tied to Austrian culture, with the term Deixfigur earning a place in the German dictionary.
“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”,on exhibit at The Shed from November 20, 2024 through January 5, 2025, revived the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 by artist André Heller in Hamburg, Germany. After being stored in Texas for over three decades, the exhibition resurrected thirteen of the original thirty attractions, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtensten, in Los Angeles in December 2023.
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"Art should come in unconvential guises and be brought to those who might not ordinarily seek it out in more predictable settngs." - André Heller
“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”,on exhibit at The Shed from November 20, 2024 through January 5, 2025, revived the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 by artist André Heller in Hamburg, Germany. After being stored in Texas for over three decades, the exhibition resurrected thirteen of the original thirty attractions, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtensten, in Los Angeles in December 2023.
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“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”,on exhibit at The Shed from November 20, 2024 through January 5, 2025, revived the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 by artist André Heller in Hamburg, Germany. After being stored in Texas for over three decades, the exhibition resurrected thirteen of the original thirty attractions, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtensten, in Los Angeles in December 2023.
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For Luna Luna art amusement park in 1987, Kenny Scharf, a key figure in the 1980s East Village art scene, Scharf created a group of towering hieroglyphic-like painted wood characters. The characters, each standing 10 to 12 feet tall, lined an area called Sculpture Avenue. . This three-eyed yellow figure is called GRR GUY.
“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”,on exhibit at The Shed from November 20, 2024 through January 5, 2025, revived the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 by artist André Heller in Hamburg, Germany. After being stored in Texas for over three decades, the exhibition resurrected thirteen of the original thirty attractions, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtensten, in Los Angeles in December 2023.
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For Luna Luna art amusement park in 1987, Kenny Scharf, a key figure in the 1980s East Village art scene, Scharf created a group of towering hieroglyphic-like painted wood characters. The characters, each standing 10 to 12 feet tall, lined an area called Sculpture Avenue. This one-eyed grinning blue figure is called BLUMAMA.
“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy”,on exhibit at The Shed from November 20, 2024 through January 5, 2025, revived the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 by artist André Heller in Hamburg, Germany. After being stored in Texas for over three decades, the exhibition resurrected thirteen of the original thirty attractions, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtensten, in Los Angeles in December 2023.
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