Banana Republic #2, 2023
Karl Kox   Best sellers

Print : Screen Print · 55 x 50 x 0.1 cm 21.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€175 €132 132 €
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Print : numbered and limited to 5 copies

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed

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Hand-signed by artist

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Screen Print on Fine art paper

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55 x 50 x 0.1 cm 21.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

The central figure, always frontal, appears as a saturated construction: yellow skin etched with ornamental patterns, an exaggerated smile with artificially blue-tinted teeth, reflective glasses that neutralize the gaze. The beanie, the thick chain, and the flame-patterned hoodie signal an accumulation of signs, not as an affirmation of identity, but as an overload.

The background retains the serial logic of the "Banana Republic" banknotes, but injects iconographic variations: secondary simian figures, cartoon elements, and heterogeneous visual fragments. The currency becomes a polymorphic medium where signs proliferate without hierarchy. Value is no longer fixed; it drifts within an unstable field of representations.

The composition no longer seeks balance but rather perpetual tension. Every surface is occupied, every space filled. The smile, too broad, becomes structure rather than expression; it imposes a continuous facade that prevents any inner reading. The face is no longer a place of subjectivity, but a decorative interface entirely on display.

Here, color no longer merely locks the eye in place; it assaults. Saturated yellow, electric blue, incandescent orange—the combination creates a regime of intensity that constrains the eye, offering no escape. This chromatic pressure accompanies a logic of excess where accumulation replaces all depth.

The work does not depict an individual but a state of mutation: the passage from a deactivated subject to an overexposed entity, entirely converted into a projection surface. What was a loop becomes a continuous flow. Nothing stabilizes, everything circulates, without origin or destination.

Karl Kox, Banana Republic #2

Karl Kox

Belgium  • 1998

Presentation

Karl Kox (1990) is a Franco-Belgian artist, from a family of intellectuals.

A self-confident dunce with a chaotic educational background, he leaves the family fold quite early to “See the World"

After several artistic collaborations and training as a graphic designer, he decided to strike out on his own.

Passionate about digital art, he has devoted himself to his career as an artist since 2022.

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