Yesterday's art gave way to today's and today's art does the same to tomorrow's, deconstructed by each of their replacements. Contemporary art becomes obsessive with 'something new'. In painting as well, almost every possible endeavor has been made. All feasible experiments of two dimensions were brought up with including reversing, distorting, replacing objects and furthermore shredding, cutting and gluing.
For some time I have been thinking about the 'original' objects, before they were distorted and harmed. Questioning began along. Are all those past things worthless? When art history goes back so long, those including the remarkable accomplishments of Representational art over the past 1,000 years, the beautiful experimental spirit of Modernism art over the past 100 years, and the sensual freshness of Pop art, would not these be the valuable foundation and asset of art, rather than something that should be discarded by tomorrow's art?
The new now needs to be one that can embrace the value that basis hold. In this sense, my work accepts all those strengths of art history and seeks creative integration.
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