Kristin Kossi
Consumerism
Consumerism
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Product Details:
- Title: Consumerism
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year: 2018
- Dimensions: 120 (H) x 80 (W) x 3 cm
- Style: Contemporary modern abstract
- Signature: Signed by the artist
- Condition: 1/1 Original
- Medium: Acrylic, collage, oil stick, aerosol, plastic bag on stretched canvas
- Framing & Display: unframed, shipped ready to hang
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
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✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the Artwork:
Consumerism confronts the symbolism we assign to fashion brands and the power they hold over perception, desire, and identity. The artwork poses a quiet yet provocative question: what meaning do we attach to brands, and why? In particular, it examines the cultural mythology surrounding luxury fashion and the way brand identity becomes intertwined with personal value.
This experimental monochromatic abstraction is built through unorthodox materials and heavy, tactile surfaces. Layers of plaster, acrylic, spray paint, oil stick, and plastic are pushed, disrupted, and embedded into the canvas, with a plastic bag becoming both material and metaphor — referencing packaging, excess, and the fragile boundary between desire and disposability.
The restrained palette strips away glamour, forcing focus onto texture, depth, and surface tension. What remains is not a polished image, but a raw exploration of form and presence. The work simultaneously honors and deconstructs the beauty of the Chanel brand, exposing its aesthetic language while questioning the systems of consumption and aspiration that surround it.
Consumerism is less about fashion itself and more about the psychology behind it. It reflects on ownership, status, and identity, inviting the viewer to consider whether meaning comes from the object — or from the stories we project onto it.
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Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Free shipping included. Shipping usually takes 3 to 8 days. Double bubble wrapped inside cardboard box. Return is possible within 14 day withdrawal period, starting on the day you receive the creation.
Guaranty
Guaranty
Original work delivered with a certificate of authenticity by Kristin Kossi.
My work explores freedom in its many forms through pop culture, ambition, nature and the choices that shape the way we live. In my Pop Art, familiar characters and cultural symbols become a language for exploring success, money, love, independence and the contradictions of contemporary life. Icons such as Scrooge McDuck, Mr. Monopoly, Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson are removed from their familiar narratives and placed into new ones sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, but always reflecting something about the world we live in and what we choose to value. Alongside this, my abstract work has evolved through a closer connection to nature. Living and working between wild landscapes in South Africa has shifted my perspective from the symbols of success toward something more elemental — land, time, movement, solitude and the freedom that comes from living closer to nature. What connects these seemingly different bodies of work is a continuing search for freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to question. Freedom to change. And ultimately, freedom to live life on your own terms. I believe art can shift perspective. For me, creativity is not only a way of making images, but a way of understanding life — and continually redefining what truly matters.