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A Panoramic View - September 2006
Born in 1956 in Central Java, Daniel Kho taught himself Batik-making techniques, sculpture and painting during the early 1970’s.
Daniel then went to Cologne, Germany in 1977 and has been living there since.
Daniel Kho became a student of Interior Design at Lemgo College (FH Lemgo) in 1989 and received a scholarship from the Jacob Eschweiler Art Foundation in 1998
With friends, Daniel also initiated the art-group “Wulung” and founded the “Shadow Theatre Kho” in Cologne, Germany.
Since 1999 Daniel teaches art and performance as part of the “MUS-E Artists in Schools” Project, which is organized in Germany by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation.
Daniel has broadly exhibited his artworks throughout eastern and western Europe, Asia and also America.
In “A Panoramic View”, Daniel tries to incorporate the philosophy of momentary perfection - a condition attained through natural constant changes and rebirth – in his works.
Daniel Kho visualize these thoughts through a series of 21 works, based on the 21-day birth cycle of the chicken, each image plays with the notion of connectivity amidst separation.
With each picture depicting a stage in the life cycle, one is free to define the different scenes.
The mind thus starts engaging and debating within itself, conjuring up countless possibilities of reasoning.
Daniel Kho's artworks attempts to portray a modern world filled with funky imaginary figures living in a connected yet separated life.
The use of different colors for the background gives a stark contrast to the foreground images that are creatively constructed by sand, thus combining to create a unique piece.
These series are a step away from his previous series, with the multiplicity of background colors giving way to a single color. The natural-colored sand gives a contrast which is easily draws the viewer to the foreground images.
Throughout this series, Daniel Kho manages to sustain the continuity from one painting to another through the dots that ‘bounds’ each picture, giving a sense of attachment from one to the other.
The works are sure to stretch the imagination and tickle the senses while invoking thoughts within the viewer.
