Berlin Art@Site www.artatsite.com Keith Haring Untitled (The Boxers)
Artist:

Keith Haring

Title:

Untitled, The Boxers

Year:
1998
Adress:
Tiergartentunnel
Website:
happy
These two busters are exactly the same, one is red and the other is blue.
They both have two openings in the form of a Ooh. Each of them stick theirs overly-long-arms in the higher and lower hole of each other.
Why would the red guy be slightly larger? Is red still the color of energy, power and conflict?
What are these guys doing? With their fists they punch against, inside, through each other's face and chest. They are boxing.
Feet are funny side-to-side. These boxing cartoon characters in primary colors makes you happy.
What would Keith Haring like to say? Is life like boxing? Yeah, but don't forget your open mind, your empathy and your sense of humor.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com

Vertaling
vrolijk
Dit zijn twee precies dezelfde mannetjes, de ene rood en de andere blauw.
Zij hebben beiden twee openingen in de vorm van een Ooh. Beiden steken zij een overdreven lange armen in de bovenste en onderste opening van de ander.
Waarom zou het rode ventje iets groter zijn? Is rood dan tóch de kleur van energie, kracht en strijd?
Wat doen deze mannetjes? Met hun vuisten stompen zij tegen, nee in, nee door elkaars gezicht en buik. Zij boxen.
Hun voeten staan grappig uit naar beide kanten. Je wordt vrolijk van deze boksende stripfiguurtjes in hun primaire kleuren.
Wat zou Keith Haring willen zeggen? Betekent dat leven boxen, overleven is? Jah, maar vergeet niet je open vizier, je empathie en je humor.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com

www.visitberlin.de:
They have been fighting here since 1998, in front of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Potsdamer Platz - or are they fighting at all? The almost five meters high 'Boxers' by Keith Haring (1958-1990) were created in Germany on 1987. The bright colours of the two gigantic figures - one bright red, the other blue - in their almost erotic embrace don't really exhude anything like aggression at all. This sculpture, an item from the Daimler Art Collection, is part of the 'Art in public Spaces' concept on and around Potsdamer Platz, as is 'Balloon Flower' by Jeff Koons. The piece is reminiscent of the famous, comicstrip-type stick figures by Haring, and represents the highlight of the artist's sculptural work.