Artist Bearbricks by Andy Warhol

Serial art on a serial object

With Warhol the format fits the work better than in any other collaboration. Warhol worked in repetition, screen print and colour variation — and a Bearbrick is exactly that: a fixed body that can be recoloured indefinitely.

So these tend to appear as colourways of the same design. Line several up and you get the effect Warhol built his grid paintings on, which isn’t a side effect so much as the point.

The releases are made with the foundation of the artist, who died in 1987. Other modern and contemporary work is under Bearbricks with motifs from modern artists.