txt Painting The Line: Art as a Language

For collectors, curators, and serious students of contemporary abstract art, Painting The Line is an intimate journey into the visual world of New York based process artist Koki Doktori, one of the most distinctive voices in gestural abstraction working today.

This 272-page fine art monograph showcases Doktori's decades-long exploration of small-scale abstract works on paper, executed in acrylic and watercolor pencil through a deeply physical process of embossing, scratching, and mark-making a technique rooted in the ancient traditions of cave painting, petroglyphs, and calligraphy.

What makes Doktori's work unique:

• A visual language shaped by ancient Mesopotamian culture, Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, and traditional West African art
• Gestural abstractions that function simultaneously as painting, drawing, and writing
• Works that invite the viewer into a Pareidolia driven experience finding personal meaning within intentionally abstract imagery
• A seamless dialogue between prehistoric mark-making and contemporary abstract expressionism

With essays by independent curator and art writer Priska Juschka (Director of Lichtundfire), and edited by Adriana del Moral, this book is both a scholarly examination of abstraction as cognitive language and a stunning visual record of an artist at the height of his practice.

Perfect for:
Collectors of contemporary abstract art. Fine art students and professors. Fans of abstract expressionism and gestural painting. Curators and gallery professionals. Art lovers drawn to cross cultural visual language

"The shadow becomes the line while the color is determined by the light." Koki Doktori.