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Talk25 (in German)
Opening: March 6th 2020 6 – 9 pm
Duration: March 7th – April 17th 2020
Ending: April 17th 2020 6 – 9 pm
The farewell – this is the name of the last picture of the series “The Song of the Earth”. But that a farewell is also always a new beginning is proven by Kejoo Park with her new series “Wanderer”. Leaving to start something new, to set out on a new life, is a step that brings with it many emotions. Pain and curiosity, courage and dejection. The new beginning is always positive and negative at the same time.
In the new series “Wanderer”, Kejoo Park artistically deals with the theme of travel and hiking. It is about hiking in nature, but also about the journey to oneself. The works are based on the thoughts of the romanticists and the motives of the nature lyricists. They saw in nature a possibility to recognize themselves. Through solitary wanderings in forests, along coasts or lakes, they also searched for themselves. Wandering as a purpose of self-knowledge. Let us think of the romantic symbol of the Blue Flower, which testifies to the longing to gain self-knowledge through knowledge of nature. Where in “Das Lied von der Erde” Kejoo Park deals with the symphonic song cycle of the same name by the late Romantic composer Gustav Mahler, the focus is now on the lyrical work of poets such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse and the understanding of nature by Friedrich Hölderlin. They all deal with hiking in nature and what it does. There is talk of loneliness, of being alone. The lonely wanderer as a symbol of isolation. So says Hesse: “Strange to wander in the fog! Life is loneliness. No one knows the other. Everyone is alone.” There is something romantic, even melancholy about the wanderings. But travel always contains moments of change and transformation. Those who discover openly and with curiosity about the unknown escape from standstill. Hesse puts it this way: “Only those who are ready to set out on a journey and travel may escape paralyzing habituation. Changes of location bring new impressions, emotions and insights that can change everything. Outer landscapes change inner ones. Sometimes insidiously, sometimes suddenly. Kejoo Park, himself a traveller between continents, inner and outer places, painterly approaches themes such as home, memory, longing, demolition and new beginnings. In the duality of her pictures, she creates units out of contrasts. With her visual language she brings together inner and outer world, end and beginning, thus reminding us of the Romantics who strove to dissolve opposites. Finite or infinite? Dream or reality? The boundaries may be fluid.
