August 19-22
Booth No. 07
with new work by
Peter Lang and Kejoo Park
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Kejoo Park‘s works are permeated with the interaction but also the confrontation between man and nature. The duality of “inside” and “outside world”, of nature and culture, testify to opposites and harmony in equal measure. The basis are photographs that are painted over.
In her current work, the artist deals with Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Also sprach Zarathustra”. Not only literarily but also locally. She visits other places that have inspired Nietzsche’s work, takes photos and uses this connection in her art. The photographs are all snapshots, they are landscapes that impressed Park and that she spontaneously documented photographically.
Like Nietzsche’s work, Park’s works on paper consist of different parts. The bottom paper is printed with a landscape photograph, above it is a glass fiber and finally a transparent paper painted with carbon or acrylic. The photographs serve as inspiration and basis, which is then overlaid with the various papers and methods. A new, imaginary landscape is created. The different, transparent papers are supposed to reflect the different time and spatial levels of the creation, as well as the experimental character of the work.
Kejoo Park also has experience as an architect, which is why she often incorporates materials from this area into her art, be it sand, concrete or the like. In this case it is the fiberglass that is used for construction, as well as the transparent paper, which is also a common material in the professional field.
“It was a dream to circumnavigate the island of my artistic yearning by boat. It was an even bigger dream to paint from a boat. In the summer of 2020, after short sea excursions, the opportunity arose to start this project. My friend Sigfus Almarsson took care of the organization, got a boat and a captain. As a landlubber (the Icelanders call it land krabbi), I now have the pleasure of viewing the island from a boat and thus in a completely different color perspective. ” Peter Lang
The usual color perspective of a landscape painter, let’s call it classic, historical or continental, goes from warm to cold, i.e. from red to green to blue. From the boat, Peter Lang will experience, reverse and process the color perspectives completely differently. The starting point is the location in the sea with a view of the landscape, therefore from blue to green and red. The result is an imponderability for both the artist and the viewer.
In the confined space of the ship, the best handmade paper is used: flexible, absorbing and emitting water. For the color inks, David Kremer produced special shellac inks with, among other things, the tried and tested Icelandic pigments exclusively, because the perfect pigments from Kremer cannot be dispensed with.
Having solid ground under your feet is a matter of course for a landscape painter. In this project, the person in the landscape changes to the person in front of the landscape, on the water without solid ground. Swells, waves, weather and wind move the ship, the mind and the viewer. The artist and the motif are always in motion: pure excitement for Peter Lang. How many artistic requirements, ideas and convictions are thrown overboard, how many remain, how many arise?
