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NAM JUNE PAIK (Seoul, 1932 - Miami, 2006) Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial". Lithograph on 270 grams Velin d'Arches paper, copy 171/250. Signed and justified by hand. Measurements: 63 x 90 cm. The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Edited to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined by diverse pictorial movements and trends. Nam June Paik worked throughout his career as a music composer, but also as a video artist, painter and printmaker. He received his musical training at the University of Tokyo, where he also studied art history. He later traveled to Germany in the mid-1950s to study music theory in Munich, Cologne and Freiburg. He worked in the electronic music research laboratory of Radio Cologne, and participated in the artistic research groups Happening and Fluxus. In this and other lithographs he investigates the graphic possibilities from the serialization of elements close to the aesthetics of the video game and even the "emoticon".

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NAM JUNE PAIK (Seoul, 1932 - Miami, 2006) Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial". Lithograph on 270 grams Velin d'Arches paper, copy 171/250. Signed and justified by hand. Measurements: 63 x 90 cm. The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Edited to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined by diverse pictorial movements and trends. Nam June Paik worked throughout his career as a music composer, but also as a video artist, painter and printmaker. He received his musical training at the University of Tokyo, where he also studied art history. He later traveled to Germany in the mid-1950s to study music theory in Munich, Cologne and Freiburg. He worked in the electronic music research laboratory of Radio Cologne, and participated in the artistic research groups Happening and Fluxus. In this and other lithographs he investigates the graphic possibilities from the serialization of elements close to the aesthetics of the video game and even the "emoticon".

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