Blog 6

       The trip to the Chelsea galleries on Wedsday, was another magnificent experience for me. I been living in the United States for about 10 years and I din’t have any idea that this exhibitions existed for free. It was finally time for me to see some contemporary art.  Contenpomrary art  as we discussed in class, is the art of living artist, it is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology, or -ism. In a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world, contemporary artists give voice to the varied and changing cultural landscape of identity, values, and beliefs.

  The first gallery exhibition that I attended was the DOOSAN gallery which presented a solo exhibition of Yunsung Lee of 2D paintings. The exhibition is tittle “NU”. As I walked in, I noticed I was the only person contemplating his art, which gave me a lot of silent time to observed the art characteristics.  Something in particular that cough my attention right away was that all of his art work  was nude;  and not only that, the face in each painting seemed to be from a Japanese animation. Right away I acknowledge what we discuess in class how contemporary artist look back at history and think about new ways to change art. As I read more about the artist I was able to find

out that just like Noguchi, Yunsung Lee joints together the specific recurrent styles within traditional Western painting with current beteclicle’s from Japanese comics and animation, attempting to overcome their distinctions and disparities in order to search for and
seek out new form and languague of painting. As I closely observed the art work, I saw that the  background of each piece of work had a combination of both organic and geometric shapes, all mix with a lot of complementary colors  layered onto the surface, removing a sense of traditional perpective, creating a very flat image with a lot of  value. All of the paintings seemed to also be covered with positive space  and the  work of art seemed  had an implied texture, specially in the hair which looked 3D, but you can’t feel it.

     Finally I left the DOOSAN gallery and I moved to the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, which presented Cut Flowers, the second solo exhibition by London artist  Ansel Krut. All of his art work seemed to be painted in oil with very unique touch. I noticed that in all of his art work, he represented flowers in different shapes and colors. As I started to closely exaiminate his 2D paintings , I was also able to see that there was something different about the vase  of each of his  art work, some of the the vases were   represented by the body and its components parts.  Thinking about contemporary artist and how they  constantly reference the past—building on timeless themes, critiquing outmoded models, researching forgotten histories, or borrowing traditional methods and techniques to realize new ideas. Ansel Krut started using imagery to create a new forms of art in which he uses the body parts as the vases and flowers as a gender that have a long history in art. Ansel Krut was able to use traditional art such as flowers, but was also able to modified to his new ideas of vases.

    I also had to opportunity to see the Metamorphosis, Banjerd Lekkong solo exhibition, an artist that creates sculptures so intricate and densely packed with information that they erase the division between art, story, and symbols entirely. As a contemporary artist he uses different working methods ans process to create his unique work of art. The material that he uses to create his scultures is steel and iron.  In all of his work of art he uses assembling and additive process, and combines different materials such as ropes of metal,  gear-like coils, and all kinds of curving shapes, to create on assembled sculpture with endless fascination and treasures. His figures are I would say are representational and non representational, he creates animals and often Hindu

gods such as Ganesha or Erawan. In Banjerd Lekkong exhibition we are also able to see Dynamic activity, as the espectator moves the art changes through space and time. There is also a lot of positive and negative space in all of his work of art.  Something curious about the artist is that he also creates figures that stand, dance, and even fly with enthusiasm. As I wonder around, one specific sculpture that cough my attention was the one of a Hindu god that had some angels coming out of her that move inside out, it was really calming to see that sculpture and the movement of tha angels made it super interesting. The colors were goldish and redish, It also had an actual rough  texture.