Michael Kagan - Moonwalker (2024)

In Memory (2020)

Artist: Michael Kagan
Title: Moonwalker
Year: 2024
Medium: Screenprint in colours on Magnani Incisioni paper
Sheet Size: 61.0 × 61.0 cm (24 × 24 in)
Edition: 100 — signed, dated and numbered in pencil along lower edge
Frame: Unframed
Type: Limited edition screenprint — square format

Description:

Moonwalker (2024) is a large-format square screenprint from Michael Kagan — the New York-based painter whose thickly impastoed, expressionistically rendered depictions of astronauts, athletes, fighter jets, and extreme human endeavour have made him one of the most distinctive and most collected figurative painters of his generation. The square format — 61 × 61 cm — gives the composition an immediacy and a formal authority that the standard landscape or portrait rectangle cannot achieve: the figure fills the frame without hierarchy, without background hierarchy, the image becoming almost iconic in its directness.

The Moonwalker subject sits at the intersection of Kagan's two great themes: the human body in extremis, and the technological sublime. An astronaut on the lunar surface — suited, helmeted, isolated in the absolute silence of a world without atmosphere — is simultaneously the most alone a human being can be and the most connected, the culmination of an entire civilisation's collective effort compressed into a single figure in a spacesuit. Kagan's painterly approach — translated here into the screenprint medium with its characteristic flat colour fields and graphic precision — preserves the essential tension of his studio practice: the heroic subject and the raw, gestural mark of its making.

The title Moonwalker operates on multiple registers: the literal (walking on the moon), the cultural (Michael Jackson's most famous dance move, itself a gesture of weightlessness and defiance of gravity), and the philosophical (the human compulsion to walk on surfaces we were never meant to reach). All three are present in Kagan's image, none foregrounded above the others.

Printed on Magnani Incisioni — a premium Italian cotton rag paper with a slightly textured surface, associated with the finest traditions of European intaglio and fine art printing — in an edition of 100, signed, dated, and numbered in pencil by the artist.

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FAQ

Is this an original Michael Kagan print?
Yes — an original screenprint in colours on Magnani Incisioni paper, signed, dated and numbered by the artist from an edition of 100.

What is the edition size?
100 impressions.

Who is Michael Kagan?
Michael Kagan (b. 1980) is a New York-based painter known for his thickly impastoed, expressionistic depictions of astronauts, fighter jets, athletes, and moments of extreme human endeavour. His work has attracted significant collector interest internationally and is represented by leading galleries in New York and beyond.

What is Magnani Incisioni paper?
A premium Italian cotton rag paper with a slightly textured surface — associated with the finest traditions of European intaglio and fine art printing, prized for its archival stability and tactile quality.

What is the format of this work?
61 × 61 cm square — an unusually assertive format that gives the composition an iconic, direct quality.

Is the work framed?
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Do you ship internationally?
Yes — worldwide, with museum-grade flat packaging, full insurance, and shipment tracking.

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