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Koak — Magritte's Door*
Koak — Magritte's Door*
Koak — Magritte's Door*
Koak — Magritte's Door*
Koak — Magritte's Door*
Koak — Magritte's Door*
Koak

Magritte's Door*

2024

"Magritte's Door*" situates itself immediately in the territory of surrealist inheritance, though Koak's approach is distinctly her own. The asterisk in the title functions as both a wink and a qualifier, signaling that whatever Magritte's door once meant, it now opens onto something quieter and more personal. Produced in 2024 on the occasion of her exhibition "Lake Margrethe" in Paris, the work belongs to a broader body of paintings and prints in which the artist layers literary and art-historical reference against her signature figurative vocabulary, one built from elongated forms, tender psychologies, and a graphic sensibility rooted in her background as a cartoonist and self-taught painter. The print itself rewards close looking. Executed in pigment inks on Somerset Enhanced White Satin 330 gsm paper with a hand-torn deckled edge, the physical object carries real material presence. Spot high-build varnish is applied selectively across the surface, creating subtle tactile variation that catches light differently depending on viewing angle, lifting certain passages and leaving others with a matte softness. The result is a work that reads as neither purely reproductive nor purely painterly, occupying a productive middle ground that serious print collectors will recognize as genuinely considered craft rather than a secondary object. Issued in an edition of 35, each impression signed and numbered by the artist, "Magritte's Door*" offers an accessible point of entry into Koak's practice at a moment of expanding institutional and critical attention. The work arrives without a frame, presenting an opportunity for collectors to engage directly with the deckled edge and surface texture before committing to a presentation that suits their context.

Medium
Pigment inks print with spot high-build varnish on Somerset enhanced white Satin 330 gsm paper with deckled edge
Sheet
Signed
Yes

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Koak, Magritte's Door*, 2024

"Magritte's Door*" situates itself immediately in the territory of surrealist inheritance, though Koak's approach is distinctly her own. The asterisk in the title functions as both a wink and a qualifier, signaling that whatever Magritte's door once meant, it now opens onto something quieter and more personal. Produced in 2024 on the occasion of her exhibition "Lake Margrethe" in Paris, the work belongs to a broader body of paintings and prints in which the artist layers literary and art-historical reference against her signature figurative vocabulary, one built from elongated forms, tender psychologies, and a graphic sensibility rooted in her background as a cartoonist and self-taught painter. The print itself rewards close looking. Executed in pigment inks on Somerset Enhanced White Satin 330 gsm paper with a hand-torn deckled edge, the physical object carries real material presence. Spot high-build varnish is applied selectively across the surface, creating subtle tactile variation that catches light differently depending on viewing angle, lifting certain passages and leaving others with a matte softness. The result is a work that reads as neither purely reproductive nor purely painterly, occupying a productive middle ground that serious print collectors will recognize as genuinely considered craft rather than a secondary object. Issued in an edition of 35, each impression signed and numbered by the artist, "Magritte's Door*" offers an accessible point of entry into Koak's practice at a moment of expanding institutional and critical attention. The work arrives without a frame, presenting an opportunity for collectors to engage directly with the deckled edge and surface texture before committing to a presentation that suits their context.

Medium
Pigment inks print with spot high-build varnish on Somerset enhanced white Satin 330 gsm paper with deckled edge
Dimensions
sheet: 24 x 30 cm
Year
2024
Edition
of 35
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Perrotin

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