Child Eating
850 €
This endearing and expressive terracotta sculpture by Kanchana Srinaksuk (Kö-Ken), conceived as a unique direct-modeled piece in Paris in 1997, depicts a child eating in an intimate and warm standalone scene measuring $27\text{ cm}$ in height; the composition stands out for its sensitive anatomical rendering of childhood, naturally capturing the absorbed gesture of bringing food to the mouth, where the organic handling of the clay balances volumetric synthesis with fine detail in the hands, Eastern-featured face, and textured hair, a work of notable technical mastery joining the poetic genre traditions of Asian art with the formal refinement of European contemporary figurative sculpture, signed and incised by the artist's hand at the base.
TechniqueModelado directo en terracota / barro cocido. Pieza única.
Dimensions27cm
Year1997
ArtistSRINAKSUK, Kanchana
SRINAKSUK, Kanchana
Kanchana Srinaksuk (Thailand / France, b. c. 1970), artistically known as Kö-Ken, is a distinguished Franco-Thai sculptor, ceramist, and former art galerist who combines a rigorous technical mastery in terracotta modeling and bronze casting —awarded in 2004 by the Société d'Encouragement aux Métiers d'Art (SEMA) and decorated with medals across several fine art salons— with specialized art market expertise acquired at the Institut d'Études Hardouin (IDETH) in Paris; after managing her own art gallery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris for fifteen years (Galerie Kö-Ken), exhibiting her body of stylized torsos and female nudes reflecting a refined synthesis between Eastern organic lines and European modern abstraction, she relocated her studio in 2021 to Mamers (Sarthe) to align her independent practice with local architectural heritage preservation, with her works held in private and institutional collections across France, Belgium, and Europe.
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