PARALLEL WORLD ; TWIX PAINTING
Working from 01 January 2009 to 14 January 2009
Showing from 16 January 2009 to 25 January 2009
Painting is destined by physical reality as a condition of both interior and exterior. I'm interested in not only the painting's inner structure but also this condition. Images from the specific area, period, media and social context are transformed into the system of my painting as materiality.
Now, I'm a bottomless painter, image rider, intruder and stalker who is thinking about type, typo, topology as a structure of pun and an interconnection of each other in the social, material and image system, as a castaway in certain area.
I'm in Trondheim, Norway. Wandering around this area for capturing images, thinking about two weeks plan for the show at Babel, eating Twix chocolate bars, I encounter a dystopian spot and find that this place is paralleled with someone's desire of utopia. Collecting remnants such as personal photos, books, signboard design, drawings and mails in the place, documenting the place by digital camera and classifying them, I make a conclusion that someone who once lived here is a ' Type ' creator for the politically neutral place. He/she is a sign painter for bars, barbershops and restaurants. I feel some commonality between I and him/her in the way to approach the world; collecting, classifying and structuring the perspective of better future with an attachment of our present by painting in neutral attitude. We are paralleled. Consequently, Twix chocolate bar become a parallel world of two weeks painting about him/her as a reference, in the sense of its unique structure of paralleled twin, repeating layers of thin cracker inside, melted caramel, colors of its logo and wrapping - funky red and white - and sweet taste of life.
Twix painting is mispronunciation or typological error of Two Weeks Painting. It's about the time, chocolate and a sign painter's desire of ideal future. There is a hybridization between exterior condition of painting, structure of Twix chocolate bar and my idea from outer reality in this twin painting. And this twin painting is paralleled with another two weeks painting once, in Glasgow, London and Berlin.
January 2009
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