Picture "Mika is alive" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Mika is alive" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 100 x 120 cm
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Picture "Mika is alive" (2022) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2022, signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 100 x 120 cm as shown.
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About Kiwan Choi
Kiwan Choi (born in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, where he graduated in 2021with a master's degree under Prof. Pia Linz.
In a playful freedom of form, Kiwan Choi works his way to abstraction, engaging in a dialogue of forms and colours. His painting opens up spaces, each surface and each application expands the pictorial cosmos and its effect, with every stroke representing a personal expression. It is a warm-hearted, open, tender and very colour-intensive way of working with a great painterly talent. His impressive abstract works are based on situations in playgrounds, which he interprets freely. For Kiwan Choi, the dynamics, movement and social encounters of groups serve as the basis of the Erased place series. In doing so, he reduces perceptible reality and uses painting as an emotional force.
Kiwan Choi received a special award along with a catalogue at the Young Art Award 2022, and his works have been included in the collection of the Kistefos Museum Norway.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
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.