Kaws: New Fiction review – an art show where you brush shoulders with virtual visitors
For decades, artists have worked across physical and digital canvases, especially in public installations, where a virtual component can lend a futuristic frisson to traditional works.
The current brouhaha about NFTs – digital artworks to which proof of ownership can be bought, assigning currently indeterminate rights to the buyer – makes the Serpentine Gallery’s New Fiction exhibition feel especially of the moment, however.
The show (admission free) features physical and digital works by Kaws, AKA the Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, the digital works viewed via a third-party augmented reality app downloaded on to a smartphone.
Pic: A visitor to the Serpentine North Gallery uses the Acute Art app to display augmented reality art by Kaws. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
