YiYi,Jeong-Eun
There, the night of flowers_ 202032
2020

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Oil on Canvas 24 × 16 3/10 in 61 × 41.5 cm This is a unique work. This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity. For some years, I have been trying in many ways to insert in screen the time that moves in a certain space and the condition of a dynamic being through the medium of painting. These are things that definitely exist but are difficult to visualize, things that are nevertheless clearly felt. I wanted the object depicted in my work to live and breathe in the painting as a being with original spirit and liveliness, and ultimately wanted my painting to be something that appeared to be alive. I asked myself, ‘To what extent can this be achieved in a painting?’ These attempts started out from my “change in attitude toward painting.” I became more interested in my own mind rather than the people around me, and the nature or the nature surrounding myself instead of the urban space. Since I was trying to express invisible concepts such as mind, spirit and sentiment in the form of image, I would portray the mind (image) in the night view or depict the feeling of the moment by borrowing from the surrounding nature or landscape. At times, I used personal and subjective means such as form, color sense, touch and matière (physical texture) instead of explanatory image to paint my mind (emotion of psychology). Emotions or feelings expressed through nature were further expanded in my painting to express the unique spirit or liveliness imparted by nature. Such spirit (liveliness or energy) is transmitted from the nature near the city or the nature encountered during a trip. My method of capturing the diverse spirits within nature is to express the spirit I sensed on the spot at that moment using animated brush strokes and robust matière rather than through naturalistic description. My work is an attempt to condense the positive spirit generated from seeing and sensing nature into a personalized visual impression or emotional impression and to present it in the form of an image. I often failed to deliver the essence of the spirit when I used the naturalistic painting method because I would focus on the appearance rather than the spirit or feel of the object. Therefore, in the case of spirit (energy), it was important to paint the appearance of the object in an abstract manner so that the object is recognized by minimum brush strokes and expression while the spirit is faithfully embodied or conveyed. A spirit in nature is sometimes concealed, sometimes subtly revealed, and at certain times, displayed either briefly or profoundly. People who witness such a moment are able to directly experience the liveliness of nature. Subjects that I frequently depict include fields, forests, the sun, the moon, trees and grass. I hope to exchange with viewers a spirit (energy) that is both positive and living through my paintings, which are created using my subjective image collecting ability and attempts to depict the spirit emitted by my subjects. by YiYi,Jeong-Eun

Creator:

YiYi,Jeong-Eun (1977, Korean)

Creation Year:

2020

Dimensions:

Height: 24.02 in (61 cm)Width: 16.34 in (41.5 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Long Island City, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2026210537502

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The reason why I sense liveliness in nature is because the appearance and movement of each object in nature change every moment. My senses that detect such change open up when I encounter (face) nature, and those senses are expanded to the maximum or activated to feel both the visible and the invisible. When I am surrounded by nature on all sides, such objects gather in one space (location) to demonstrate the changes of each moment as well as each of their unique temporality. My body, which wishes to feel a lot of things, will automatically open up all sensory doors to nature without putting in effort. The objects in nature were probably never in the same condition, energy or image from birth to demise. I am like that as well. A book that appears to look the same as yesterday is actually changing over time even when no visible force is applied from the outside (moving or tearing the book, etc.). A book cannot be the same as when it was first made because dust accumulates and the sun shines over it. The change is just slower and less visible compared to when the tree was a natural object. Many things that dwell in the natural environment regularly retain marks across the body due to elements of the daily weather including sunlight, air, moisture, wind and climate. These marks are either large and recognizable or fine and unnoticeable. It can be a mark left immediately by a natural disaster or a slow mark left by gentle breeze or light. At any rate, you cannot get around being influenced. As such, both moving animals and immobile plants accumulate the passage of time on the body or exterior, changing slowly or noticeably even as we speak. Among nature, objects that are easy for me to slowly observe include trees, forests, lakes, rivers and oceans. Also, nature is an object and location that allows me to most keenly sense the fact that I am one of the changing things. While I am a human being, nature helps me realize that I am also a living animal. Since I love nature as a place that lets me appreciate myself as a being that is completely alive, away from the society where I must live as a human, my desire to articulate that property of nature grows stronger by the day. realize that I too am alive when I watch clouds sail across the sky each hour or look at the willow tree that blows in the wind or observe the sprout grow into grass, revealing its figure one leaf after another. Perhaps I am more used to seeing the change in others than seeing the change in myself. The exquisite moment when their “aliveness” and my “aliveness” meet amidst their change. by YiYi,Jeong-Eun