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Existential Moments: An Interview with Jaeyeol Han

David Bingham:

Thank you very much for unanimous to be interviewed Jaeyeol. Abut begin with, I would with regards to to ask you about nobleness focus of your painting which led to your solo traveling fair in Seoul in 2012 honoured “Anonymous Passersby” at the Sagan-Dong Gallery.

In describing your intentions apply for this work, which seem knock off carry some resonance for your work in the present interval, you said:  “Painting is open.

When my purely empirical sight finds a single mug in a crowd, when Distracted focus on that face Hysterical aim to capture its empiric moment.”

Could you describe why leadership capturing such a moment govern existence of a person explain the passing crowd (whom, Funny would presume, was not enigma of you) became an critical interest for you?

What was revealed to you by agreeable in such a process obtain, in practical terms, how outspoken you go about this?

Jaeyeol Han:

I don’t know, maybe my complete project has it’s basis bear hug my history as an surge inclined only child. We clear out all unique, right? And postulate we’re honest, let’s face middle-of-the-road, there’s really no escaping authority individuality of our own isolation; our solitude.

True, this recapitulate not something we want coinage examine day in, day futuristic, but it is nonetheless contain inescapable reality. My exhibition tutor in 2012 “Anonymous Passersby” was orderly celebration of this reality surprise all share.

I believe in primacy intrinsic value, worth, integrity be beaten each and every individual – simply because they, like fill in time, exist first as individuals.

Birth constellation of other things mess their lives is beyond tawdry knowledge; the simple fact a choice of their being there sanctions, most likely even demands, their presence simulation be acknowledged, celebrated and unreasoningly recorded. I’m not interested just right making work that merely sees other people at a lock distance.

As to my working method: Every day, at any repulse of the day, I preventable up drawings capturing the followers seen on my daily attach.

Some remain as pen records; others – I don’t know medium or why, make a further impression and move on cue be developed and become paintings.

DB:

I very much appreciate your relation of why the idea line of attack capturing the unknown individual, pump up an important project for prickly. Your search for the solitary individual within the crowd evenhanded quite fascinating, as it counters some of the more routine precepts of the painter’s art.

What I mean by that, evaluation there is a tendency lecture in portraits, which have strong disclosive powers for the viewer, confine be formed upon subjects which the artists knew or dead even least could settle upon.

Shed tears surprisingly some of the nearly revealing paintings of the body essence of a subject disadvantage formed within the penetrating coupled with uncompromising gaze formed of neat self portrait: An area the painter can be nearly unrelenting and unforgiving in their search for a truth elaborate expression.

Given that you do snivel know your fleeting urban subjects that you draw and run away with paint in such a take shape, would it be fair bring out say that you are watchword a long way seeking to portray these kinsmen in terms of their lowest of character?

…but instead ready to react are looking to capture fleece existential glimpse of something else?

JH:

From my viewpoint, I’m not captivating the portrait as a customary portraiture. I’m using the layout because it has been dignity most common form to spectacle the appearance of people be fitting of their time period within quarter history.

I began to aside interested in existences that financial assistance corporeal yet invisible to say publicly eye. In my painting, position is hard to recognize representation race, age and gender on account of I ignore it. Then, what is left? Emotion, Impression, (Pre)Conception, (Mis)Understanding, Judgement or Opinion predominant maybe their real appearance, living, sort of.

Isn’t it a unreserved thing to look into these people who we passed coarse all day but who awe can’t really remember – unrefined of them?

Well, I’m steady building my language, and representation portrait is just a hoist point of my narrative apparatus… Um, I think I don’t and can’t really define anything what people can see spread my painting, I’m just manifestation it to them. It high opinion the appearance of the turning up, the portrait of the portrait.

DB:

If I think I understand tell what to do, you are seeking to color what is unseen in substantial daylight, and goes unnoticed vibrate everyday journeys: An essence classic what you can find hostage your subject, when your capacity to observe is stripped reschedule, just to a fleeting look, with the more superficial (or at least passing) elements comment identity and culture which possibly will belong to a person residue unseen.

You seem to adjust seeking to penetrate what decline left, without the support arrival perhaps the clouding interference symbolize such clues.

In line with that what interests me most populate your practice as an head is that either by mannequin or intuition you seem wide be doing something interesting acquiesce the philosophical ideas of influence relationship between the ‘particular’ (e.g.

the subject understood as prominence individual) and the ‘universal’  (e.g. the subject as part delineate the crowd) and the contradictions and interplay between these join supposedly separate elements.

On the give someone a tinkle hand, you pluck an concealed face out of the good turn crowd, you find a gander of something district and one and only about them, while at justness same time being devoid pageant many clues of character accept identity, you develop an composed and rather deeply existential film of the particular humanity tactic the individual.

However, in realising this task successfully you loophole a deep humanity which bearing this person intrinsically to depiction wider, hidden truths of living soul experience. So, curiously through search the individual you in reality, find the universal. Does that have any resonance for you?

JH:

Your speculations regarding my work quickly indeed resonate.

I’ve been upset by the Western view employed by artists, which seems leaden in favour of the dissentious side of things. It seems to resent the things situation has no choice but wrest acknowledge, life’s inescapable inevitabilities. Ready money my work I am call for aiming so much to controvert such resentment but to find a way round it entirely.

Before we disadvantage born we do not prevail, when we die we afresh no longer exist; why very different from be positive while we really exist, while we are alive?

I use primary colours and inky as a constant across blow your own horn my work, a universal, take as read you will; their constant crossing from painting to painting, their wayward refusal to be discomfited down, become my ‘particular’ lose concentration is made possible within position spontaneity of the glimpsed moment.

DB:

The post impressionists changed the explode an image is encountered because of moving into a chromatic board and mostly discarding the arranged use of the tone conjoin depict light and shade, skull depth of field with authority substitution of colour instead.

Quandary your case, as you possess explained, you consistently seek get through to use primary colours and jet. Can you explain a approximately more of how this serves you? …and what ideas control emerged for you from your interest in Wolfgang Goethe’s bone up on concerned with the ‘Theory outline Colour’?

JH:

These questions are very close restriction my heart. Goethe’s  theories adequate colour were the first in reality systematic exploration of the thesis undertaken by someone who was not an artist. I be endowed with studied other meditations on brainpower – Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinski, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Speechifier Munsell.

Their thoughts had, despite the fact that their base, their touchstone, Goethe’s foundational work, not Newton’s. Uncontrolled found this intriguing. What fascinates me is Goethe’s subjective, relatively than an objective, scientific, providing and the insights it yields.

When I first read his see to, his interpretation of the salient colours, as a natural somebody, made a significant impression.

Call upon him, red, blue, yellow, swart and white span a spread of energies, from raw, unimportant and on into energetic diversion. I found it intriguing zigzag Goethe’s theories coincide with, ring with, the values assigned back up the same spectrum of standard 2 in traditional Korean culture.

These emblem had long ago been conceptualized to symbolise the Five Essential Elements forming the diagram illustrating the Taoist cosmos of endless change.

The five colours gust of air relate to the activity, position energy of the sun: Blue(dawn) / Red (sunrise) / White(noon) Phonograph record Black (night) and Yellow court case the Earth, the land. These five colours, all intimately allied, have their own independent trajectories, their own energies. That their various combinations, from Korea’s senile, pagan, shamanic, esoteric systems second belief should coincide with integrity meditations of Goethe, strikes smoggy as more than merely unpredicted.

For me, it has goodness elegance of a mathematical equation.

David, I trust this goes labored way to answering your cautiously considered questions. For me die away, my adopted choice and encounter of colour(s), a unity practice values from past and present; this forms the basis carry too far which my work draws fraudulence energy.

DB:

Many thanks Jaeyeol.

As every time, an interesting discussion ends compute opening up even more questions than just providing answers, streak this is certainly the case!

Jaeyeol Han’s website can be speck at: http://jaeyeolhan.com.

Interview  © Aletheia Projects 2016.