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Collection highlights
The works from the Kiwa´s series of Japanese women were completed in 1999, for the artist’s personal show at the Vaal Gallery, which could be considered the most stylishly decorous, and the most clearly conceptualized, package of Kiwa’s artwork. Principally, as one the paintings’ title states, the series involves self-portraits posing as pop fetishes. Deriving from the concept of neurotic naivism, in yet another of his series of arbitrary pop identifications, Kiwa picked up the image of the Japanese girl, already extensively used in pop culture, a euphoric relating to the deliberately misleading logic of identification and to the moral that stems from it. Kiwa’s relationship to psychoanalysis, to his own world outlook, to the fashionable discourse of ‘bad painting’ and to his favorites – pop icons – is equally erratic: much the same way a parasite regards the host organism. Hanno Soans

Kiwa
Post-psychoanalysis (From the Series Japanese Women

 
Artist: Kiwa (1975 - )
Title: Post-psychoanalysis (From the Series Japanese Women
Date: 1999
Technique:
Material:
collage, acrylic
paper, fiberboard
Height (cm): 98.0
Width (cm): 170.0
Description: The works from the Kiwa´s series of Japanese women were completed in 1999, for the artist’s personal show at the Vaal Gallery, which could be considered the most stylishly decorous, and the most clearly conceptualized, package of Kiwa’s artwork. Principally, as one the paintings’ title states, the series involves self-portraits posing as pop fetishes. Deriving from the concept of neurotic naivism, in yet another of his series of arbitrary pop identifications, Kiwa picked up the image of the Japanese girl, already extensively used in pop culture, a euphoric relating to the deliberately misleading logic of identification and to the moral that stems from it. Kiwa’s relationship to psychoanalysis, to his own world outlook, to the fashionable discourse of ‘bad painting’ and to his favorites – pop icons – is equally erratic: much the same way a parasite regards the host organism.
Hanno Soans
Related categories: Contemporary Art
Copyright notice: Art Museum of Estonia
AME collection: Paintings collection
Collection number: M 7136
Accretion number: EKM j 49674
Muis reference http://muis.ee/museaalView/250087
File info: Source type: slide 6x6/7/9
File type: TIF
File size: 7.82MB
Resolution: 2072*1316px @ 1000dpi
 
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