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작성일 : 21-07-17 15:03
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Artist Statement for 'Transcendence' (Jaedon Shin)
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Eros In The Pandemic Nights
During the lockdown last year, every night I watched numerous operas via online streaming service. Mostly they were melodramas about love, desire, betrayal, revenge, death, and so forth. Interestingly, watching them helped me not only to get out of the strong sense of isolation, but also to have opportunities to think deeply about ‘the self’ (myself) and ‘the other’ (non-self), and the relationship between them.
In the daytime hours, I worked on a series of paintings which became about Eros and love as an active principle for the artist and even to philosophers when creating work. Without Eros artwork can be dry and hollow. While listening to Opera I saw how much it contained about human nature and how much of human nature is based on instinct and a search for love, sometimes in other people, in objects of mystery, or in the act of creation itself. I imagined a perfect erotic, noble and flawless love manifested in different forms. The object of love is the eternal Other I can never reach.
‘Eros’ is one of my paintings inspired by stories and music of the operas. In another painting, lovers float in the air like twinkling stars in the night sky. They are full of desire but know they can never fully possess the object of their love. The music that resonates in the night sky is sweet and mysterious and love is a mystery never to be fully accessed.
(Jaedon Shin)
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