Photo Credit: instagram /@qatar_museums
Visitors travelling from Qatar will soon be able to see the 'Small Lie' installation by American pop artist and designer KAWS at the Hamad International Airport.
Chairperson of Qatar Museums H E Al Mayassa Al Thani and KAWS shared on their Instagram pages the photos and videos of the various stages of 32-feet-tall Pinocchio-esque frame being installed at the Concourse E section of the Departure hall.
Al Mayassa shared the video of the installation in progress starting from Day 1 on February 20 when the different parts of the artwork is unravelled to Day 4 when the statue is almost ready and looking down at you.
8(x_x)8 #SmallLie By #Kaws@HIAQatar - @Qatar_Museums pic.twitter.com/9cXd7JgDyi
— Al Mayassa Al Thani (@almayassahamad) February 20, 2018
The iconic artwork, The Small Lie, measure 1000 x 464 x 427 cm in dimensions, which is much bigger than the much-loved Lamp Bear. The huge teddy is now a part of every traveller who passes through Doha airport and a selfie in front of it has become routine. Soon everyone will have one more interesting work of art to click a photo of.
The Small Lie is joining the Urs Fischer's Lamp Bear and other art installations at the HIA. The airport also has a series of Oryx sculpture by Dutch artist Tom Claassen, installations titled Playground by American artist Tom Otterness among others.
Other featured international artists include Adel Abdessemed, Dia Azzawi, Ahmed Al Bahrani, Maurizio Cattelan, Don Gummer, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Marc Quinn, Anselm Reyle, Rudolf Stingel and Bill Viola.
KAWS is a graffiti artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, product designer, and toymaker. His cartoonish style—including his best-known characters with X-ed out eyes—has its roots in his early career as a street artist.
KAWS has shown his work increasingly in galleries and museums over the past decade; some of his most famous images are reimagined versions of pop characters like Mickey Mouse and the Michelin Man.
