Viktor Koen’s Dark Peculiar Toys

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Toy No. 20

Two prints by artist Viktor Koen who was born in Greece but currently lives in the US. Koen’s Dark Peculiar Toys will be showing throughout October at United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, New York. This month there’s also an exhibition of dismembered toys showing at the October Gallery in London. Benin artist Gérard Quenum‘s salvaged doll heads and limbs are repurposed in a series of sculptures he calls Dolls Never Die.

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Toy No. 15