MikoArt-Giclée-02/Series-80x150cm-0015 by MikoArt
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Medium: Giclée on canvas. Comes with a black frame, width 40 mm, depth 30 mm
Dimensions: 150 x 80 cm
Year: 2022
Price: $3550.00 USD
Status: available
In this painting, I present two hands encompassing an exploding world, charged with symbolism and emotional tension. Centrally placed and moving toward each other, the hands form a protective yet controlling circle. They seem simultaneously to nurture and contain what unfolds between them. Between the hands, an explosion of color and energy unfolds: fiery shades of yellow, orange, and red collide with cool green, blue, and white. This colorful core suggests a world in flames—a fusion of creation and destruction, hope and threat. The explosive movement radiates outward, but is stopped at the crucial moment by the hands, as if humanity itself is trying to maintain control over forces greater than itself. The blurring edges and dynamic streams of light amplify the sense of urgency and instability. The image raises questions about responsibility, power, and vulnerability: are the hands creating or destroying, saving or dominating? The work functions as a powerful metaphor for human role in a world full of tensions—ecological, social and spiritual—where the future is literally and figuratively in our hands.
Why collect this work?
Two oversized hands nearly close around a radiant central burst. Their enclosing gesture makes protection and control difficult to separate, turning spectacle into a question about responsibility.
- The artist profile identifies Miechel Kockelkoren as working under the name MikoArt and translating digital compositions into printed objects. That approach suits this collision of recognizable anatomy with an invented field of energy.
- In the supplied photograph, the hands occupy the foreground while streaks radiate toward the edges. The gap between the fingertips keeps the circle incomplete, leaving uncertain whether the hands contain the burst or help produce it.
- Catalogue metadata records a 150 by 80 cm giclée print on canvas from 2022. Giclée printing can sustain the image’s abrupt tonal contrasts and graduated colour transitions, though the photograph cannot establish exact colour or canvas surface.
- The work provides a direct case study in how a familiar gesture of holding can also signify possession. Readings of care, intervention, and domination remain active without resolving into a single moral position.
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...
