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: |
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