Nam June Paik
1932 Seoul – 2006 Miami Beach
Nam June Paik was an composer and visual artist and is considered a founder of video and media art.
He is best known for his flickering robot figures and large-scale installations. For him, technology is not a necessary evil, but a natural part of the environment that should be shaped as a matter of course. Nam June Paik originally began his artistic career as a composer. However, his teacher Wolfgang Fortner considered the native Korean to be "such an extraordinary phenomenon" that he did not feel responsible for him and recommended him to the Studio for Electronic Music at the WDR in Cologne. Here he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and Joseph Beuys also became his artistic companion. The decisive factor was meeting the American composer John Cage in 1958. After that, Paik broke new ground with his action music – and went down in art history as a “destruction artist”.
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Portfolio: Artists United For Nature Columbus: In Search of a New Tomorrow
Colour silkscreen on wove paper
Signed, numbered & blind stamp
Real wood frame - custom made
Acrylic glass, UV 100, glare-free
FSC-certified timber, 100% Made in Germany, 100% Organic
Size 83 x 63 cm
Provenance | Auctioneers Switzerland, Privat Collection Germany
Differential taxation according to § 25a UStG. No taxes included. | Differenzbesteuerung nach § 25a UStG. Kunstgegenstände und Sammlungsstücke, Sonderregelung.
