Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park

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People are still fascinated by the work because it signifies a creative time that can never be repeated,” says lighting designer Lee Broom, who has a leather jacket handpainted by Haring hanging in his TriBeCa penthouse.

He wanted to be able to communicate on a global scale,” he says, “which is something that was, and still is, difficult to do in that context of the art world. Located in Hamburg, Germany, the event attracted legendary artists like Salvador Dalí, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Despite the success of the original Luna Luna attraction and the roster of artists involved, the artworks themselves have fallen somewhat into obscurity since.You can design your very own amusement park, just as you think would be right today, and really without exception everyone answered by saying, sure, that's a nice pleasant challenge. In an entry dated 20 March 1987 in Keith Haring: Journals, he records how he hasn’t been tested for HIV but is sure he has it, and that “my days are numbered. The book, which was first published in German in 1987, marks the first English translation of the story of Luna Luna.

She earned her MA in Renaissance Studies from University College London and now lives in Rome, Italy. The new book jacket is printed on both sides to reveal a poster of the original park, and the case is printed with glow-in-the-dark ink. The revolutionary collaboration of interdisciplinary artists, spanning twentieth-century art movements including Abstraction, Art Brut, Dada, Fluxus, Neo-Expressionism, Nouveau Réalisme, Pop Art, Surrealism, and Viennese Actionism, transcended any effort since to achieve artistic amusement. He was one of the inventors of a new art medium: the art product,” says gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, who has been involved with Haring since 1980.It follows the process of how the attractions came to be and explores original sketches as well as other design ephemera. The carousel features three-dimensional characters based on the line-drawn figures he became famous for. In fact, music was a fundamental part of Luna Luna, with Miles Davis providing the soundtrack for the Basquiat-designed Ferris Wheel. When the first Luna Luna launched in Hamburg in 1987, for a mere thirteen-week run, over 240,000 people visited.