Art Review: Contemporary Artist & cartoonist Chul-joo choi's art review; Lacan's painting exhibition showing the shade of object ɑ with reversible light, 20211223-2021125 Gwangan Gallery.
Chul-joo Choi, morning glory-2021-l-back, 148X175cm, acrylic and composite materials on cloth, 2021
The "morning glory 2021-l-back" approaches landscape paintings that seemed to be the daily desires of others, rejects two-dimensional flatness, divides fantastic plane images into two planes and shows them in a fabric structure so that they can recognize others' desires as reversible shadows.
It is difficult to reveal the object ɑ of the structure of beauty concealed in the object of the hidden structure existing as an attribute of shadow in a picture that is converted into a system that approaches recognition as a meaningless being and draws out symbolic expressions.
The perceived symbolic expression is a linguistic composition without a well-seen formative aesthetic structure at the bottom of the picture. It is perceived as a flat expression, but it is a virtual image that hides reality.
The image is a virtual image that deviates from the perspective of reality and belongs to the structure of desire as a hidden aesthetic structure.
<morning glory 2021-l-back> is a background shading by manipulating the morning glory's background with reversible light on the surface of a fabric made of crossed threads.
And light reflected in a small hole in the fabric is an abstract image that expands the plane of an object by overlapping it with reversible light in an unrealistic picture.
The reality of the existing universality encountered by morning glory, which represent the other's desires, overlaps with reversible light to decorate the entire space with the meaning of color.
The dark shape that contrasts with this decorated flat image is a momentary shadow of reversible light drawn on the fabric.
Here, the cross-sectional image of the custom seen as a real object looking at color is a language that symbolizes an imitated morning glory. This is because the morning glory image is a reversible shadow of the Lacan's semantic structure.
The expression of color recognized as a shadow forms the semantic structure of the image according to the tone of speaking with temporary light that reflects the desire of others who are staring at the screen or are invisible.
The transition from a practical expression of this semantic structure to a symbolic system conveys the planar dimension of the object to a semantic structure. The planar image of this practical morning glory makes you stare at symbolic expressions and real images. It shows a dual appearance of expressing the opponent's daily life and symbolic desires at the same time through morning glory.
By removing the stage of volume by using reversible shades over time as monochromatic color, <morning glory 2021-l-back> does not have a fantastic image of the object by light, that is, an image of quattrocento painting.
The morning glory has no setting of light, while the background is painted in the way of Quattrocento painting. This is the process of transitioning from an imaginary world to a symbolic world, and images that do not exist, that is, images reflected in the mirror in the imaginary world, coexist. It reproduces the reality of a morning glory as an image that coexists, but the background image is identified with the morning glory, but the image assimilated with a non-substantial shaded color does not fit the metaphorical meaning of the substance. Its meaning is metaphorical like the language structure, so it is not the same as the form of a morning glory.
Therefore, the meaning structure of shadows created by reversible light with images different from morning glory is an object as a reality, not real. This is not an image as an object, but an object of reality as another person's desire. In this way, Lacan's symbol, "morning glory 2021-l-back," shows the concept of changing the shape in which reality exists and enlightening its meaning.
The morning glory 2021-l-back is a small hole where the surface of the picture intersects, setting the non-actual position with reflected light, and drawing a shadow shape in which light overlaps. On the right back and side, the part that receives the light has a bright shape unlike it really is, and the rest has a shape of a shadow transferred by reversible light.
By revealing the reality of <morning glory 2021-l-back> created by the other person's desire, it created a dual space in everyday symbolic expression and real space. In terms of perception, this reveals the flatness of the picture that converts the morning glory, which appears to be an external image, into a symbolic image in contrast to several reversible light. Here, the morning glory 2021-l-back extends the position of the non-real image with reflected light reflected from a small grid-shaped hole pierced on the grid-shaped fabric of the grid.
This is expresses non-real images and existential meanings in the part of the light reflected from the back and the light reversible from the previous time.
It forms a visual object with reversible light, brightens the object with a awakened image of the other's desire, and forms a form in which the rest of the image is shaded by several reversible light.
By revealing the reality of <morning glory 2021-l-back> made by the desire of the other, it created a real space with symbolic representations and behind everyday life.
In terms of perception, the morning glory flower, which appears to be a substance as an external image, is converted into a symbolic representation system in contrast to a shadow with several reversible lights in the background. In other words, the represented painting of a symbolic representation shows an image of a cultural shape overlapped with several reversible lights over time.
Chul-joo Choi, morning glory 2021-e-back, 114X169cm, acrylic and composite materials on cloth, 2021
The crooked image viewed from the side as the object ɑ of Lacan is consistent with visualizing a photo image of the other person's desire in the past as a collage.
This is a crooked image generated by reversible light that goes beyond the actual visual image of the picture.
This is because it is an image created by the desire of the others in the Lacan's theoretical system, which is an irrelevant gaze area whether it is flat or three-dimensional. As an object in <morning glory 2021-e-back>, the morning glory at the bottom of the center among the three morning glory is not clearly aligned and viewed by the object 'ɑ' looks like a gaze.
Here, the morning glory refers to the presence stopped by a momentary gaze in the continuity of reversible time.
The image in <morning glory 2021-e-back> shows the existence of reversible temporality by planarizing the morning glory according to the reversible temporality of the perspective visual system margins and objects.
However, even if the existence of the morning glory is reproduced, the morning glory is identified as the background image, but it does not match the object 'ɑ'
It is a meaning structure of shadows created by reversible light with different images from morning glory about what existence is. It is an object that has another reversible temporality from a shadow that is not real.
Therefore, the object is not an image as an object, but a reality as another person's desire.
The morning glory at the bottom of the center connects reversible light to determine the place of existence and form a process of time to indicate the direction of the existence and a space in which it exists.
A morning glory flower formed at a single light source point in time does not have a sense of volume. Here, the morning glory is a partially fragmented image, such as a collage. In this way, each partial image exists in space as a fragmented shape exposed at the same time.
The planar morning glory is the form of a subject generated by the observer's gaze. Through morning glory that have eliminated volume, the presence connected to the reversible light is extracted, and the various reversible light in the background and the shadow of the morning glory are contrasted to show a plane view converted into a distorted image.
The Lacan's gaze cannot be selected as a visible image in which real and non-real reproduce an object according to the perspective of view, and the pictorial image expressing the actual image is identified as an image as non-real.
Therefore, the existence of an object is a distorted image similar to that of Lacan's object ɑ.
Chul-joo Choi, morning glory 2021-g-back, 135X167cm, acrylic and composite materials on cloth, 2021
From the Renaissance to the middle of the 19th century, the expression of painters' paintings, or pictorial images, was immersed in mannerism that adhered to the popular style.
At that time, most painters were in need of life, except for the painters who painted portraits of the royal family, aristocrats, and upper classes.
The painting they completed as a means of livelihood is what Lacan calls a picture reflected in the mirror, that is, an imaginary system as a metaphor, an object that is satisfied with the image of the real object as an infant by looking at the object reflected in the mirror.
In <morning glory 2021-g-back>, the boundary of the canvas visual range is removed and the three-dimensionality of invisible mannerism in the picture is removed to schematize it as a semantic object. This is an object viewed from the perspective of semantic duality, away from the traditional style of painting expression from the Middle Ages to the modern times.
It imprints that it is a flat canvas and refers to the reality of the family as another meaning of the compositional image formed by chickens and chicks, not the actual picture of perspective.
It is a lacan painting that shows the shadow of object a with a reversible light that rejects the image center of simulacre, which replaces real, by omitting the volume of chicken and rejecting perspective description.
The transition from such a semantic representation to notation shifts the planar dimension of the figure to the essence of meaning. This is a dual object that simultaneously shows livestock in daily life and a family in a symbolic sense through chickens and chicks.
The shape of the picture reveals the aesthetic meaning of an object in the visual system in image painting.
This is a pictorial act, and the object is defined in a limited area in perspective, distorting the original space, and drawing it on the canvas to produce meaning.
In addition, another meaning due to the shape of the area similar to the object forms a meaning subtracted from the image in a semantic form from the double expression of the shape.
The dual meaning formed here breaks the relationship with the apparent being in the visual system and exists as a meaning in an immaterial cultural space.
The verbal expression of the object in the picture is also metaphorical, but assuming that it is an image that is not reproduced, real exists as a virtual image that reproduces real through thinking.
Here, 'morning glory 2021-g-back' is an unrealistic meeting that distinguishes the symbolic image and real meaning of morning glory, contrary to the reality that chickens and chicks are life and family.
In the picture space, Lacan's real is different from objective real and representative thoughts. It has a real object ɑ that is separated from the real transferred from the symbolic world
In "morning glory 2021-g-back," the hidden images of chickens and chicks in the morning glory landscape are repeatedly expressed in the meaning of the family, and the meaning of the family is revealed in the composition of hidden images from the images of chickens and chicks.
In the semantic space in the picture, the volume of chicken is omitted in its actual shape, and the meaning of the family is expressed in a non-visual system.
In the public domain, real is a hidden meaning beyond the displayed image.
As a real in its concealed meaning, "morning glory 2021-g-back" shows both the space of life and chickens and chicks with morning glory in the landscape to reveal the existence of the family. "morning glory 2021-g-back" is a real that shows the value revealed in the family's appearance, eliminating the unrealistic real that seems to be right in front of you and depicts the reality of meaning through thinking.
Painting in the symbolic world is only a continuing symbolic existence of objects. Lacan calls its existence a transcendent signifier.
<morning glory 2021-g-back> metaphorically expresses the meaning of the family as a real, an area separated from the realm of the symbolic world. Without showing the object to be expressed, compare the actual meaning of the family to chickens and chicks. In other words, invisible concealment creates an image that symbolically compares its meaning with its symbolic image.
However, Freud's unconscious expression can be compared to the desire of the symbolic others in the Lacan theoretical system through psychoanalytic interpretation. Here, the symbolic other's desire is identified in the category of the symbolic world in Freud's unconsciousness and the linguistic meaning of Lacan's signature image.
Therefore, the meaning of Lacan's concealed real image is an unconscious structure. By understanding the real of the family, which is not seen in <morning glory 2021-g-back>, you can find the meaning of the image that symbolizes the existence of the other's desire in a lacan's painting.
Chul-joo_Choi, morning glory 2021-h-back, 131X167cm, acrylic and composite materials on cloth, 2021
Joseph Beuys of Neodada, USA, converted the artificial act of being, that is, the object, into another object and artified people so that the object was recognized as an object of total art.
This is because he incarnated the soil, regeneration, resurrection, and rabbit in <How to explain the painting to the dead rabbit, 1965.>
The pictorial objects invisible in the visual system are Lacan's object ɑ and surreal object.
This is a distorted image in which the desires of others appear momentarily as an object ɑ of surreal lacan.
That is a dual object of surreal painting that has a symbolic meaning, unlike the meaning of symbolic and perspective actual shapes, as a shape derived from human subconsciousness.
The semantic language of Lacan's surreal image is based on the existence of real that identifies Freud's unconsciousness as a category of symbolic world. Therefore, the meaning of Lacan's surreal real is an unconscious structure. By understanding the real of the painting, <morning glory 2021-h-back> can be interpreted as another unconscious real in visual art symbolizes the desire of others.
In other words, the real of Lacan's unconscious shape is the effect of the emergence of incomplete and distorted images formed by repeating the semantic language of the image. This is a formula that can be exchanged for meaning through the conscious movement of the notation image, and the meaning is determined by substituting a shape to reveal the meaning of Lacan's desire graph.
It is similar to constructing an image with an unconscious structure into a scenario like a stage in a play and revealing and interpreting the meaning of the scenario through the thinking movement of the image shining reversible light of the past.
In Lacan's theory of visual arts, image exchange is expressed as the others person's desire instead of semantic action by repeating the structure of the mark image and shows meaning that does not act as resistance to insufficient images, that is, insufficient forms. In Lacan's graph of desire, it accepts Saussure's symbolic language, but reveals the meaning, which is the effect caused by the unconsciousness that prioritizes the meaning, that is, the image of the notation.
Here, Lacan's exchange formula; 'f(S...S')S=˜ S (-)s' is replaced with <morning glory 2021-h-back>, the morning glory as a image is connected to the sky, and the cat is incarnated, and the fish is selected as an object ɑ of the batter's desire and shaded into an object in the shadow. Lacan says that the meaning of the fish as the desire of the others is combined with the maintenance of the stick (-).
Lacan's fantasy formula, which functions visually in the picture, describes shapes such as unconsciousness and language so that others can experience their desires consistently and meaningfully. Therefore, the attempt to pursue in Lacan's painting seems to constitute a meaning that symbolizes the desire of others hidden by images, like unconscious language, in the existing space where certain effects of semantic behavior occur.
Writing. Art critic Chul-joo Choi (Modern Painter & Doctor of Cultural Design)
