Oriental VisArt 1st Group Exhibition in Geneva

25 09 2010

Threshold to everyday-life

Oriental VisArt presents ‘Threshold to everyday-life’, the 1st group exhibition in Geneva, which includes 5 Asian Artists, who are now working across Europe and Asia. This exhibition is curated by Gunwoo Shin.

In my opinion, one of the most frequent discourses in the art world since the 1990s has been the notion of the ‘everyday-life’. Artists are fed up with the boundlessly expanding notions of art and its bulky discourses. They have sought to discover their own values and have tried to capture and represent this theme of the everyday. At this moment, there is no doubt that the domain of contemporary art has expanded from the ambiguous and abstract to the specific and concrete. The world each of us knows consists of everyday incidents and specific happenings, repeated over and over again.

The exhibition ‘Threshold to everyday-life’ brings together five international Artists. Each Artist presents and manifests how everyday-life can influence them and the world through their works with diverse cultural perspectives. All the work, exhibited in this show, might open new avenues to the question: “what is real everyday life and what exist beyond it?

By Gunwoo Shin

Chinwook Kim attempts an expansion to another unfamiliar space in ever-changing daily life. He inserts an image he discovered in a familiar place in another space, randomly, and endeavours an attempt to excavate another aspect buried between image and image, space and space, through new assumptions and suppositions.

Gunwoo Shin’s work portrays mental landscapes on the crossroad between the conscious and the unconscious, through relief style painting. He freely moves beyond the lines of reality and the world of the surreal, giving diverse artistic imaginations to realistic subject matter.

Ju young Park focuses on ‘movement’ in her painting with fast strokes. She starts with moving her brush very quick and tries to capture her gestures. After that the Artist develops spontaneous brush work into a more objective language. Her paintings look quiet and tranquil. However, you can feel a kind of ‘tremble (moment)’ even in the static image on a plane surface.

Kumeresan Selvaraj experiments with new spaces and materials using untouched marginal areas of medium in his work such as a blank space of photography or an outer space of existing objects. His perception of self-existence is the key source for understanding his works. He transforms his perceptions into works of art through confusion, analysis and references.

Saravanan Parasuraman‘s works are based on his intelligence that he acquired from his self-existence. He has been influenced by the world of nature. He uses ordinary objects such as an old palm tree, steel balls and clay in his work. He is interested in capturing traces of which every element has reacted to the world.

The opening reception is on Wednesday 29^th September from 6pm to 10pm. The Curator Gunwoo Shin and one of the Artists Juyoung Park will be present. Hope to see you there. I will attach the invitation and Artists’ information. Thanks a lot!