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Country Club and Mondrian Los Angeles are pleased to present “For The Kids,” an exhibition of sports lithographs from the archives of John and Tock Costacos. Opening on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at Country Club and Mondrian Los Angeles, and curated by Adam Shopkorn, the exhibit serves as a mini-retrospective of early Costacos posters from 1986 through 1990. “For The Kids” was originally exhibited in 2011 at Salon 94, New York and was organized with the help of Fabienne Stephan. For the Los Angeles exhibition at Country Club and Mondrian L.A., the selection of lithographs from the archive will be expanded to include many west coast works that will be shown for the first time. Mondrian L.A.’s retail space will be converted into a white box gallery for this particular show. Michael Gross, the CEO of Morgans Hotel Group says “We are really excited and happy to support the exhibition at Country Club, and honored to be able to bring a part of the experience to our property to share with our guests and the community.” In addition to these works, pieces will be presented from Jeff Koons’ first solo exhibition, “Equilibrium,” the 1985 show that included basketballs floating in display tanks, cast bronze scuba diving tanks and framed advertising posters that appropriated imagery contained in Nike advertisements that preceded the earliest Costacos work. The Nike posters were purchased by Koons with the permission of the manufacturer, and were presented as his own artworks.

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