Humour

One Chinese person walks into a bar in America late one night and he saw Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to him, and asks for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says, "You Chinese people bombed our Pearl Harbor, get out of here." The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese". "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, you're all the same," replied Spielberg. In return, the Chinese gives Spielberg a slap and says, "You sank the Titanic; my forefathers were on that ship." Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me." The Chinese replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carlsberg, you're all the same."















Sunday, May 16, 2010

So-Yeun Lee: A solo exhibition of self-portrait entitled, 'Memento Caligini!' - Remember the Darkness



Running through June 11, 2010

Artist Ms. So-Yeun Lee opens a solo exhibition of self-portraits



Artist Ms. So-Yeun Lee opened a solo exhibition at the Cais Gallery(http://www.caisgallery.com/) in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul on May 14, 2010 where she put on display a total of 19 paintings on the theme of Memento Caligini (Remember the Darkness) which derives from Latin. The exhibition runs through June 11 this year.
It is the fifth one-man show for her but is the first held in Korea, the four others having been held in Germany and other countries outside Korea.
Artist Lee was born in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province in 1971, graduated from Kunstakademie Muenster, Germany.
Having worked actively in Germany, Ms. Lee has had her exhibitions in Japan and Europe. There have been formed a numerous collector levels possessing her works in various places such as Achenbach Art Consulting, Colombus Art Foundation and t.VIS.t communication
In 2008 she was also selected as a participating artist in an exhibition of Art Spectrum supporting a young artists held at the Samsung Leeum Art Museum.
Ms. Lee is receiving attention from Europe, Japan, and other international art circles for her self-portrait paintings that radiate intense impression and subtle theatrical atmosphere.
While spending life in Germany as a stranger for 10 years, it was a time period of searching ego through portraying herself in various forms based on her personal experience, space, and situation kept within Memory of Darkness in such an unfamiliar environment especially when the identity crisis approached severely as it happened to any other foreigners.
To a layman's eye, however, her self-portrait paintings do not seem to do justice to her real looks. Some viewers find the paintings of her face 'cute' but many agree that she is overly modest and condescending. The Korea Post interviewed Artist Ms. Lee.

Question: All your works are self-portrait paintings. What was the motivation?
Answer: I don’t remember if I had any motivation. I just took interest in figure painting and I have been painting myself not for the purpose of painting self-portrait but for the sake of portrait painting as just one of the media which include costume, accessories, abjets d'art, background, and adjustment of light, etc. Through these media, I try to express what I think, see and feel.


Q: Your paintings are somewhat dreamlike or we get such an impression.
A: Some people say my paintings attract attention of an audience at a first glance and evoke strange feelings, or others call my paintings ‘belonging to the end of the century.’

Q: What made you start painting?
A: I liked drawing very much since I was a little girl. If someone asked me, my answer was almost spontaneous and instinctive that I will be an artist. Painting was about the best thing I liked as if I were an autistic child good for nothing else. I just got lost in paining and I think that it made me what I am.





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