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Iqi Qoror’s "Blue Underneath Mondrian" (70 inches tall x 79 inches wide) is a striking contemporary painting that fuses surrealism, symbolism, and social commentary into a visually compelling narrative. The artwork presents two formally dressed figures sitting on a couch in what appears to be a vintage-styled living room. The setting is paradoxically submerged in water, with waves lapping against the furniture and a desk floating in the foreground.
The background consists of a floral wallpaper, evoking a sense of domestic familiarity and nostalgia. Above the figures hangs a Mondrian-inspired geometric painting, a nod to modernism’s structured aesthetic, which starkly contrasts the surreal elements of the scene. The most visually striking detail is the figures’ faces, replaced with intricate, multi-colored woven textures. This abstraction challenges identity and individuality.
The painting seamlessly blends hyperrealism with abstraction, using bold brushstrokes and exaggerated color contrasts to create a dreamlike yet unsettling atmosphere. The juxtaposition of rigid structure (Mondrian’s influence, suits, furniture) against the fluidity of water and organic textures reflects a tension between control and chaos, tradition and disruption. Through its surreal imagery and symbolic layers, the painting invites viewers to question stability, adaptation, and the hidden currents beneath everyday life.
Iqi Qoror's surreal figurative paintings are arresting in their earthy palettes offset by pops of fluorescent textile embroidery. His artworks revolve around questions of trust, interspersed with fragments of modernity set against his own social experience. Qoror's blend of portraiture, pop-textiles, and surrealistic imagery invokes curiosity, confusion, and a playfully honest connection with our contemporary world. Each artwork represents a point of self-reflection: "We live in a catastrophic world...I express my response through my works and I'm constructing a question of our madness."
This large oversized original painting on canvas is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. Qoror incorporates wool embroidery onto acrylic portraits to add dimension and mystery to this artwork. This painting is signed and dated by the artist on the front lower right corner. Free local Los Angeles delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping are available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included with this unique work.
A native of Indonesia, Iqi Qoror started his career as a professional Visual Artist with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art. Qoror's combination of different media merges not only different art practices such as painting and embroidery but past and present as well. The combination of modern expressionistic style of portraits without faces with pops of color render his artworks unforgettably visceral.
Qoror constantly challenges himself to be more experimental and versatile in his art practice, from installation to mixed media painting. Through this innovation-fueled journey, Qoror has established himself as one of the fastest rising stars of the Indonesian art scene. He has been labeled an emerging artist to watch who knows how to move distinctly between representational, figurative, and surrealist imagery. His artworks have been exhibited in international hot spots such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles and have been collected worldwide.
