The theme of soccer has been launched in the poetic world of artist Sung-Rea KIM. What kind of image will she paint for soccer? While all the participating artists talk about soccer through their own eyes, Sung-Rea Kim took the football, then went back to Genesis.
In Sung-Rea KIM's work, Adam and Eve are holding soccer balls and smiling brightly, soccer balls are also hanging all over the tree where the 'forbidden fruit' is located. Where does the courage of the author come from to overturn the 'forbidden fruit', the beginning of humanity and even the stories of the Bible? You can find this reason in the innocent faces of Adam and Eve.
Adam and Eve smile like children. This expression makes us forget the original sin of the man, from the tree 'with the forbidden fruit', and the countless hours of suffering from this original sin.
The appearance of this work is a hope that contains a more drastic peace than all other attempts. This is the message that the artist addresses to us. Chagall's "Expulsion from the Garden" is the only work in history that shows a happy face leaving the Garden of Eden. But now, one more work has been created, moreover, the artist has transformed the Garden of Eden into a happy soccer field.
The time of the audience,
'The hard core of the facts and the flesh of the controversial interpretation that surrounds it.'
I think Carr's definition of historical description applies to our exhibition as well. And what is more interesting is that there has been a lot of controversy about the World Cup, itself.
There has been a lot of controversy about the World Cup from the beginning. Recently, cities have boycotted the World Cup because it was not environmentally friendly. Countless human rights issues have been raised in the run-up to the World Cup. The treatment of the workers involved in the construction of the stadium has provoked violent reactions.
Qatar, one of the largest investors in the international art scene, has implemented numerous outdoor sculpture projects for the World Cup and presented them on a splendid and gigantic scale. He also regularly conducts seminars on the theme of Art for the Future.
The selection, analysis and interpretation are now in the hands of the public. In modern times and in contemporary art, as Duchamp said, the creator of creation is the public, not the artist.
The artist sees historical facts and creates his own work. The work of art that the public sees is a new reality.
Now it is the public's turn. In front of a work that has become a part of reality, the interpretation of the public is allowed, in all freedom!
It's playtime!
"It is the viewers who make the paintings. - Marcel Duchamp.
Jungmin CHOI
Curator
Doctor in Plastic Arts, Paris I Sorbonne
Ps. A soccer game is completely different when you see it on the field.
And the artworks are completely different when they are seen in an exhibition room.