Accompanied by a certificate issued by Finale Art File
confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance:
Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

Among the modernists, Ang Kiukok was the artist who utilized the creation of still lifes to its fullest. Beginning with linear forms in austere gray and brown textured surfaces, he transitioned to a more complex and bright-colored cubist still lifes of tabletops containing fruits, potted plants, or bottles over the years. Generally, Ang’s still lifes breathe a hint of emotions of both spirituality and anxiety. His still lifes chart Kiukok’s journey from his Modernist Period to his Machine and Expressionist-Cubist period. While this branch of Ang’s work is often overlooked, it won’t be possible to think of the modern artist without his body of still life paintings. Kiukok, at times, would venture so far from the visual appearance of actual objects that his painting would seem thoroughly abstract. Yet, in other works, he would produce an almost representational image. Whether in abstraction or figuration, Kiukok made pieces so powerful in feeling and so imaginative in design that they evoke not just visual suggestions but meticulously structured details. In this particular work, the highly charged colors generate an immediate emotional response. Painted in vibrant colors, the agitated forms make complex, usually cubistic, shapes. Patterns start becoming more apparent. The painting is, in a way, disorienting with its all-over design and the absence of perspective, testing the imagination with its intersecting planes and forms that seem to jut out of the picture plane.