NAM JUNE PAIK (Seoul, 1932 - Miami, 2006).
Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial".
Lithograph on 270 grams Velin d'Arches paper, copy 110/250.
Hand signed and justified.
This work is part of the "Suite Olympic Centennial", complete edition 110/250, which will be auctioned on 27 September 2022, in 50 consecutive lots numbered 35245230 to 35245280.
Measurements: 63 x 90 cm.
The Olympic Suite is made up of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the artists chosen are defined by diverse pictorial movements and trends.
Nam June Paik worked throughout his career as a music composer, but also as a video artist, painter and printmaker. He received his musical training at the University of Tokyo, where he also studied art history. He later travelled to Germany in the mid-1950s to study music theory in Munich, Cologne and Freiburg. He worked in the electronic music research laboratory of Radio Cologne, and participated in the artistic research groups Happening and Fluxus. In this and other lithographs he investigates the graphic possibilities through the serialisation of elements close to the aesthetics of the video game and even the "emoticon".