MikoArt-Giclée-02/Series-110x150cm-0039.01 by MikoArt
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Medium: Giclée on canvas. Comes with a black frame, width 40 mm, depth 30 mm
Dimensions: 150 x 110 cm
Year: 2022
Price: $3900.00 USD
Status: available
In this painting, I present a layered and introspective female body, almost dissolving into color, texture, and symbolism. The silhouette of a face is recognizable, yet not sharply defined; it seems caught between appearance and disappearance. The pose suggests stillness, as if the figure is turned inward. A tight grid pattern covers the body, contrasting with the organic forms behind it. This grid acts as a filter or barrier, evoking associations with order, boundaries, or the societal structures within which the individual finds themselves. Simultaneously, leaf motifs and flowing color planes break through the grid, as if nature and inner life are unstoppable. The color palette is warm and intense: golden yellow, orange, and red dominate, complemented by green and accents of purple and blue. These colors imbue the work with an emotional charge that balances between strength and vulnerability. The light seems to emanate from within, giving the portrait an almost spiritual glow. The whole feels like a dialogue between human and nature, inner and outer world, control and freedom. The work invites reflection on identity: what is visible, what remains hidden, and how layers of experience, memory and environment together form a person.
Why collect this work?
A gridded profile and layered foliage compete for visual priority, making the figure appear neither fully concealed nor securely defined within the image.
- MikoArt, the label used by Miechel Kockelkoren, describes a practice of translating digital compositions into physical prints. Here, that approach supports an image built through conspicuous overlap rather than seamless illusion.
- In the photograph, a dark facial profile occupies the left side while a second bodily outline rises behind it. Repeated orange lines impose regularity, but green and red leaf forms interrupt their order. The tension between system and organic growth is visually persuasive.
- The catalogue identifies the work as a 2022 giclée on canvas, measuring 150 by 110 cm. Inkjet printing can preserve abrupt shifts among translucent-looking layers, saturated colour and fine grid lines, although the photograph cannot establish the canvas surface.
- The work is particularly useful for considering how digital layering can complicate portraiture: identity is constructed through competing masks, patterns and silhouettes rather than concentrated in a single legible face.
About the Artist
MikoArt
MikoArt is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Mechelen, NL.
Nationality: Dutch
Fueled by my versatile creativity, a constant quest to create, and my sense of color and image, I finally found my own individual creative...
