NYAB Event - Soojin Cha and Zdenek Kosek "Mapping the Non-Material World"

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At Cavin-Morris Gallery
Media: Painting, Drawing

Using art as a way of charting aspects of the universe is not a new idea. Neolithic stone carvings documented star charts and marks on wood or stone from ancient times documented the varied topographies, sacred and profane, of the planet.
What the two artists in this exhibition have in common is that they use the material means of art making to chart and explore immaterial phenomena. In the case of Kosek this is nothing more than the immediate moment of temporal existence and all things in this ever-present moment happen simultaneously, which he, in his own mindset, feels he is causing. The charts are documenting his tremendous affect upon the world. He specifically believes he can control the weather of the world and influence personal and political events. In the case of Cha, we see her meditations on the corporeal and non-corporeal effects on the human body of events like growth, injury, disease and healing.
Cha is from Seoul, Korea, and received her MBA from Ewha Womens University. Kosek, from the Czech Republic, is the quintessential art brut maker. Both sense profound physical and non-physical phenomena and speak a limbic language of survival and transcendence through their works.

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