Picture "Erased Place NK 13" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Erased Place NK 13" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 160 x 120 cm
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Picture "Erased Place NK 13" (2022) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2022, signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 160 x 120 cm as shown.
About Kiwan Choi
Kiwan Choi (*1985 in Seoul) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and graduated in 2021 with a master's degree under Prof. Pia Linz.
In a playful freedom of form, Kiwan Choi works his way to abstraction, it is a dialogue of forms and colors. He opens up spaces with his painting, every surface, every application expands the pictorial cosmos and the effect, every stroke is a personal expression. It is a warm-hearted, open, tender and very color-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 are the basis of the Erased place series. He thus reduces perceptible reality and uses painting as an emotional force.
Kiwan Choi received a special award with catalog at the Young Art Award 2022 and works have been included in the collection of the Kistefos Museum Norway.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western 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 that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist 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 type 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.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which 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.