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작성일 : 17-06-25 14:39
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A writing from Narakorn Sittites (Lecturer of Painting Department, Faculty of fine and supplied arts RMUTT, Thailand)
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The Observer, name Shin Jaedon
47 year old Shin Jaedon was a man who was going to be successful in his business in South Korea. But he decided to sell his company and move to Australia and started to study art.
Our first encounter was in 2016 when I and my friends had an exhibition at Blackcat Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. He looked like earnest man but he was filled with humility at the same time. He always questioned when he was wondering about something in our artworks and gave us some of his ideas about our concept. But every question was full of interest for knowing something without any bias and it seemed that he really wanted to know all the answers that he just asked. That made me feel he really was interested in our works.
We met each other again in Thailand in 2017. This time he came with his lovely wife to Thailand as an artist for "The artist in residency project of faculty of fine and supplied arts" at RMUTT in cooperation with Blackcat Gallery for two months. During first couple of weeks, he spent his time for site investigation around university, and observing and planning what to do in this residency. At the same time, he learned about our culture, politics and way of life of people around here. After that, he suddenly started to work as if this is the last day of his working.
In order to fulfill the host’s duty, we liked to show him the other places of Thailand to know more about our country by taking him, but his answer was "I came for working not for traveling" (actually after that he said he was just afraid that he didn't have enough time to work). It surprised us because most of the foreign artists love to go somewhere else to see more Thailand but it's not just like that for this man, named Jaedon.
His interest is in everything around him. Small things such as a small garden and flowerpots in front of his studio and people that walk by drew his attention. There were more, for example, some ordinary places like the hotel where he stayed in or Thai tea shop outside the university. These things are just common things that most people don't pay attention to. But for him all these common things looked interesting.
The point of view from his perception about things around him is the core concept of his painting. His interests based on drawings that he learned at RMIT university in Melbourne make his paintings to express the beauty of ordinary things in a different way from we get used to. His paintings remind me of Italian painter Francesco Clemente and all the artists in Naive style. From the art form that he characterized by a rejection of Formalism, it makes sense to respond to his attitude towards the story so clearly. His painting is full of questions about what he saw and expresses his attitude from the perception.
The possibilities of making contemporary painting are the matter of his concept. Most of his painting is always questioning on what’s called “painting”. From social context of South Korea that he came from, politic issue is one thing he paid attention to. Political interests always appear in his paintings such as works of “Kim Jong-ill’s Funeral” series. One thing that makes his paintings really special is “Colors”. Colors in his painting are like main language to express his feeling. In each series, colors come from his deep perception.
His painting is the way of his seeing that he records time, feeling and his attitude in everything.
I am very pleased and honored to welcome such a committed artist. I have a good heart name, Jaedon Shin
Narakorn Sittites
(Lecturer of Painting Department, Faculty of fine and supplied arts RMUTT, Thailand)
2017.5.19
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