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Noble Savage- What Do You Want?(no.1)
Lee, Jae Hoon and 이재훈2009
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
The character “Sang” means “prize.” It is also a stamp you can get when you are in the elementary school. We are trying to be endorsed by the social system. By worshiping the standardization like bowing to the monument inscribed the law of rule, people try to be one of the majorities. This situation is described in the scene as being isolated in the empty field surrounded with the tomb stones, and there, only the sign of the overruling power stands out.
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- Title: Noble Savage- What Do You Want?(no.1)
- Creator: Lee, Jae Hoon, 이재훈
- Creator Lifespan: 1978
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
- Date Created: 2009
- Physical Dimensions: w700 x h1050 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Korean traditional paper, quicklime, oriental color, acrylic color. Fresco
- Collection: Daewoon GG. CO. Ltd.
- Artist's Note: A monument that cannot be a monument A monument is part of a social system that one’s subjective and internal value and ideal will be involved. It pursues a group’s beliefs and idealizes social roles. A monument figure stands solemnly and rigidly as part of our society. As a monument represents superficial characteristics and symbols, its physical existence contains social values. If the ideal value, meaning it represents and the reality has a gap, the monument is perceived only as a social belief or a sign. The real meaning is forgotten and it would be a monument that cannot be a monument: a un-monument that lost its original meaning and value. Nietzsche quoted, “The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.” In other words, the irrationality is a condition of the rationality, because the relative value of them satisfies mutual existence. Thus, the existence of irrationality is a criterion of a rationality valuation. Like this, Un-monument is a paradoxical symbol to judge a value of a monument’s irrationality. This work is not trying to show the monument’s irrational role or value through the symbolism. Its purpose is to raise a 3 part question: monumentalized socially accepted norms inside our consciousness is the representation of unconditional belief and absolutes, a gap between social rationality (ideal value) and irrationality (reality), and the righteousness of these socially accepted norms being as men’s valuation standards.
- Artist's Education: Chungang University. Seoul, Korea. B.F.A. & M.F.A., Korean Painting.
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