It is a delight to be here with the team at Datz Museum for the exhibition “Elegy of Beauty” where I am also attending a artist residency. It is truly a dream come true to be exhibiting my work here in Korea with Datz, who I have been working with now for over six years on various projects.
I’m currently working on my book “In the Midday Silver”, finalizing copy and design with Datz, in order to have the book out this summer. Many of the images in the show are from that series, as well as a selection of my assemblages.
The space here at the museum is really quite beautiful and the exhibition is stunning. As the museum Director and my good friend Sangyon Joo writes:
”The exhibition elegy of beauty begins with a question: What is beauty? There are times when we are profoundly moved in ways that are inexplicable, stirred by a moment or an object. Beauty is first felt by the body before it is recognized by the mind. It is a deep inner harmony that eludes measure or formula. The purity of small and delicate life, crystalline strength forged over time, solidity of structure and harmony, the balance between emptiness and fullness, and spiritual sublimity with a sense of transcendence—all intersect. Might it be that, within this interplay of light and shadow, we perceive the self-revealing order of Nature as “beauty”?”
The exhibition also includes work by artists Linda Connor, Christin Mc Faul and Mary Daniel Hobson and will run through early August, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 4th at 2pm.