Picture "Happy faced friends - 1" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Happy faced friends - 1" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 80 x 75 cm
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Picture "Happy faced friends - 1" (2022) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2022, signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 80 x 75 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
About Nari Jo
Nari Jo (*1988, Gimje/South Korea ) works with abstract painting and pictographic representations in her art.
"In my painting, I want to depict wonders that have been forgotten. I see the preservation and condensation of childlike curiosity and the search for a primitive and at the same time spiritual aesthetic as the core concerns of my work as a painter."
In her work, Nari Jo focuses on expressions of joie de vivre, happiness and childhood and reflects on her upbringing in rural areas. However, it is not about the landscape itself, but about the feelings and thoughts that she associates with her homeland. Home here does not refer to a specific place, but to a world of emotions or an abstracted image of her memory.
Her distinctive visual style lies in the realm of figurative abstraction, as her paintings still have a figurative dimension. Although her art seems to exist in its own reality, symbolic forms lurk everywhere, working on a sensory level and evoking the sweet and whimsical moments of daily life.
Nari Jo received the Hegenbarth Scholarship in 2021.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.