Title: King of Knaves
Artist: Simon Kalweo
Medium: Woodblock on newspaper
Dimensions: 25” x 20”

A bold, angular reimagining of the classic playing‑card archetype, Kalweo’s King of Knaves layers sharp geometric patterning over a collage of printed text, giving the piece a gritty, urban pulse. The fractured color fields — black, yellow, purple, red — energize the figure while the club symbols anchor the composition in tradition. The sword, the stare, the tension between order and chaos: it’s Kalweo at his most graphic and most playful, turning familiar iconography into something fiercely contemporary.