The Dark Side #3

Name: The Dark Side #3
Brand: Joas Nebe
SKU: 81025310007
Price: 2700.00 USD
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W 58.00cm x H 42.00cm x D 0.50cm

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About this The Dark Side #3

Detail

Medium

Painting

Edition

Original Artwork

Year

2021

Sign

Artists' signature on the back of the canvas

Frame

Unframed

#Painting #Gouache #Coloured ink #Ink/Alcohol ink #Minimalism #Modernism #Religious #Semi-figurative #Subculture #Abstract painting #Portraits/Figure painting #People #Human body #Space #Bones/Skeleton/Skull #Character #Tempera

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JOAS NEBE - THE DARK SIDE
(Color ink, shellac ink painting on paper, ca. 42x58cm, all 2019-2021)

In the binary system of the reason dominated Western culture each thing has two sides. One is friendly and open and the opposite is dark and frightening.

Stain glass windows of the European Middle Ages are omnipresent in churches, cathedrals and cloisters. Mostly they show scenes from stories told by the Bible, which are charged with details of demons and monsters and other otherworldly creatures, which emanated from the artists mind when they interpreted this biblical narratives.

I adopt this stain glass window structures by using shellac ink in order to create a glass like effect on paper and I adopt the idea of the dark side from the past. But at the same moment I charge the dark side with creative energy, which takes away the scaring moment.

(C) VG Bildkunst
Arzny, Joas Nebe
About this artist

Joas Nebe

Germany

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Concept

Gaming into Mindfulness
Interview with Joas Nebe by Rebecca Schoensee (excerpt)

“It’s a never-ending game of disintegration. I challenge the viewer by not living up to his or her expectations. I am denying the satisfaction of solving the riddle, hidden within the depth of my artwork.” By turning his filmic cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes: “Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer.”

Taking the Reason Prisoner

To Nebe, “fantasy and creative intelligence are important survival skills today.” So is chess, an analogy he keeps referring to: “Chess exemplifies my game with the viewer. In a world of shortening attention spans, it’s an ideal concentration-practice. One always has to think a few steps in advance.” By screening the insanity of our daily chase towards evolutionary bankruptcy, Nebe in a clever move takes the reason prisoner, only to appoint reason to be the king of his game of chess. He calls for a close review of the encyclopedia of our philosophical and cultural foundations. In his opinion reason has the potential to direct a path away from the horror vacui he is depicting: “The model of enlightenment has increasingly been discredited, wrongfully I believe. Today survival and coexistence are only possible if governed by the faculty of reason. Labeling and connoting intellectual categories help to bring new relations into sight and to gain unexpected terms of knowledge.”

The interview essay "Gaming Into Mindfulness" has been published in Humanize Magazine, issue 11, p. 20-31.

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