NOSTALGIA THROUGH NOISE
Apr 21, 2022 - June 09, 2022
Jeon Minkyung
< Nostalgia through Noise >, a commemorative exhibition for the opening of the Prompt Project, is a metaphorical expression that recovers emotions by gathering different metaphors, rhythms, and emotional sounds. The etymology of ‘nostalgia’ is nostos, which is a combination of the words algos, which means pain, sadness, and distress, and symbolizes the ultimate emotional recovery. Based on this, color, rhythm, and volume, which are the main elements of sound that compose music, are expressions that are applied not only to music but also to art, and are also major requirements in terms of formativeness.
The exhibition < Nostalgia through Noise > aims to create a cross-cutting feeling of music and art through new and undisclosed old works by invited artists Park Meena, Chung Heemin, and Lee Eunwoo, who display different senses based on these basic elements of pure plasticity. did.
The exhibition was organized based on the purely formative elements that encompass music and art: color (tone), rhythm (prosody), and size (volume). The composition of the exhibition begins with the impression of rhythm (rhythm) by Chung Heemin, located on the first floor. These works, which appropriated the romantic sentiment, the representative trend of music, with a contemporary sense, assumed the screen itself as a space and a place of illusion of the screen and canvas recall the sensations at the same time.
In addition, ‘On Vacation’, a series that fully demonstrates the sense of 3D painting handled by Chung Heemin, is like a waterside, the drowsy sense of light reflected on its surface, and floating thoughts through the empty state in Lorem Ipsum. It was revealed through the dummy texts found. Lorem Ipsum, texts to fill images, are usually used meaninglessly, but are substituted with images, and in part, their words and their symbolism serve as images experienced through intuitive messages. This is an image that encompasses the digital world and reality, and will be sensibly restored to show a visually illusory image in which the specific and delicate emotions recalled by the emotions of the past romanticism are spatially projected, and the space remains in the painting.
Afterwards, Lee Eunwoo’s work, which connects the first and second floors of the exhibition hall and encompasses the imagery of space, shows the staged development and state recalled by the size, or volume of music. The immaterial size and shape, and furthermore, the surrounding space that surrounds it, gradually replaces the abstract with material, creating a hybrid sense. Interestingly, the material of the work, which reveals the accumulation of time, imagines not only the completion of the work as a series of art of time, but also the step-by-step creative process created in the process. In particular, the new wooden sculpture and letch-hook (skill embroidery) series introduced in this exhibition transform the symbolic images of modernism in the past through everyday, craft materials and techniques that oppose them, and formally replace the contemporary identity that it generates.
In the exhibition hall on the second floor, Park Meena presents the ‘Scream’ series, which originates from fuga, a representative method of polyphonic music, in which variations in tone, or color, are displayed. This is also connected to one of the major forms of music, mimetic counterpoint, in other words, infinite repetition of melodies and images that evolve and repeat like a ’round song’. Park’s representative work, the new ‘Scream’ series to be unveiled at this exhibition, is an abstraction of Charlie Brown, a character of the well-known American cartoonist Charles Schulz, as an icon. The act of screaming and the sound waves coming out of the mouth are visualized in a gradation of various colors, awakening the sense that sounds are replaced by images. In this exhibition, based on a screaming figure and a heart-shaped icon, infinite variations were evolved and experimented through fuga, a musical form in which high and low tones are repeated in one theme.
The sense of sound, color, and size, which are the pure formative elements of music and art, which are mainly dealt with in this exhibition, not only evokes our reactions, but also generates joy and sorrow of emotions and evokes experiences based on memories. It is similar to waking up the soul that exists at the base of the senses beyond the retrospective and contemplative nature promoted by the association of various sounds.
Therefore, the exhibition space Prompt Project, which is newly conceived through the exhibition < Nostalgia through Noise >, is a place that promotes three-dimensional values accompanied by the main elements of fine art introduced above, in addition to the experimental attempts and approach directions that this space will pursue in the future. I look forward to playing my role as a member and hope to be active.
