The artist
Karim Bassegoda practices as a visual artist oriented towards visual arts and digital art. Below is his artist statement. Keight, signs and experiments. Keight is a multidisciplinary artist who offers a variety of experiments and mediums, from “traditional” art over immersive installations to digital works. His references are strongly aligned with artists known for a distinctly visual semiotic, such as Edvard Munch, the Delaunays, or Vasarely, but also with more contemporary creators who blend “graphical” and “metaphysical” dimensions, principal among whom are Paul Laffoley, Alfred Latour, and Matt Mullican. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, Keight takes us on a visual journey through his unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe his abundant yet coherent universe. The word “Keight” conjures up the image of a “trapdoor”, and in this way, he has us descend into basements or ascend into attics, to discover the secrets of the psyche that are buried deep or perched up high. Beyond the formal quality of his creations, the artist invites us to join in a meditative experience, expressed through pieces that are so many states of consciousness, transporting us back to our deepest feelings. Four series summarise and interconnect his exploratory vision of the inwardness necessary to freedom of choice: Life, Society, Death, Metadiscovery. Like the matrices of an ecosystem, they form four gigantic “manifesto” panels that invite us to embrace life, reject social attitudes, face death, and release our energies into the global flow...
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