Your Red Lips

The concept of the collective unconscious, as theorized by Jung, arose as an alternative to the individualized unconsciousness often distorted by Freudian interpretation. Artists such as Karel Appel of the COBRA movement reconciled Abstract Expressionism with Figuration, embedding abstraction with a humanistic message of unity. This lineage informs the practice of Arie Otten, regarded as the Donatello of Vedica Gallery. His oeuvre draws upon the Cobra aesthetic and Faux-Naïf sensibility. The series Your Red Lips emerges from Otten’s professional engagement with emergency medical services; the red pigment used in the works is derived from desiccated blood powder—an unflinching materialization of human fragility. Through this series, Otten registers his progression from deconstructive to reconstructive relationality, mapping a transition from aphasic to non-aphasic modes of being.

Your Red Lips is a work of series with 7 pieces. Arie Otten developed the work using blood powder, acrylic, textile on paper that emerges as a mix of portraiture in a figurative and abstract style.

- Provided by Vedica Art Studios and Gallery