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confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance:
FInale Art File

ABOUT THE WORK

At the heart of Ang Kiukok’s art is a narrative on the human condition that has held his attention for decades. It’s the employment of a Cubist vocabulary for highly emotive ends which is the hallmark of Ang Kiukok’s art. The tortured depiction of Jesus Christ on the cross, like a picture within a picture, is filled with imploding rhythms. The work explores the most humanizing aspect of Christ; the fact that he can suffer despite his divine nature. The jagged and exaggerated act as shock waves that explode and subvert the balance of the figure. As the shock ripples upward, it even buckles the surrounding space. It is this eruption of humbling brutality from within the civilized that enables Ang Kiukok to extract from the scene such a convincing symbol. The dehumanized atmosphere captures another aspect of the warped aesthetic emerging in this work by Ang Kiukok.