Picture "Kissing Elephants", framed
Picture "Kissing Elephants", framed
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 199 copies | numbered | signed | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | stretcher frame | studio frame | size 105 x 105 cm
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Picture "Kissing Elephants", framed
At first glance, the picture looks like a large-scale, abstract mosaic. Only when looking at the picture a second time, the shape of the two elephants facing each other become visible. They are formed by the crisscrossing lines meandering across the whole surface and the bright coloured elements. The question of "representationalism" or "abstraction" does not concern the artist; his work - like African art since time immemorial - aims primarily at capturing the symbolic, the essential, indeed the core of nature in a fantasy-like image.
Giclée print on canvas, stretched on a stretcher frame. Limited edition 199 copies, signed and numbered on the back. Stretcher frame size 100 x 100 cm. Framed in a sophisticated solid wood studio frame. Size 105 x 105 cm. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
About Ukata Arua
Ukata Arua was born in 1977 in Nigeria as the son of King Amaekpu Ohafia and a German mother. He received his artistic training at the University of Nigeria Nsukka. In his lacquer and acrylic works, he reformulates the old African art traditions in an impressive way.
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.
Graphic or sculpture edition that was initiated by ars mundi and is available only at ars mundi or at distribution partners licensed by ars mundi.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, spurt".
The giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are fade-proof, i.e. resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade and watercolour paper as well as for silk.