{"id":15122,"date":"2022-07-12T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=15122"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:51:49","slug":"the-inevitability-of-alignment","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/15122","title":{"rendered":"the inevitability of alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2022. 7. 14 &#8211; 8. 18<br \/>\nDylan Solomon Kraus<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dylan Solomon Kraus - Peres Projects Artist Portrait, 2022\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/727074663?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Peres Projects is pleased to present the inevitability of alignment, Dylan Solomon Kraus\u2019 first solo exhibition at Peres Projects Seoul and his second with the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Kraus compares the symbols that recur throughout his work to the pictorial language of hieroglyphs. Encountering these images again and again, there is a quality of directness in their meaning that accumulates throughout the exhibition, the repetition of clocks, moons, clouds, swans, and boats (amongst others) are almost ritualistic, as if summoned to the canvas by an incantation. They can be described as letters in an alphabet or notes in a song and it is through the various constellations and assembly of these signs that meaning emerges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15123\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15123\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-scaled.jpg 1670w, https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-768x1178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-1002x1536.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2022\/07\/19001031\/DSK12066-Reflection-2022-LOWRES-1336x2048.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Solomon Kraus, Reflection, 2022, Painting &#8211; Oil on linen 103 x 76 cm (41 x 30 in)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a new series of works for this exhibition, the artist depicts an eruption of clouds and planets, color and brushstrokes swirling with energy and commotion. In Genesis (2022), a cloud bursting from a dark sky brims with planets, stars and shapes \u2013 the moment just before creation is represented as a cloud of pure potential. Despite pursuing cosmic themes, the works are also defined by a quality of humour, which the artist explains as \u201cbecause to imagine creation is impossible, and so to try to depict the unimaginable and contain it in a little canvas is comedy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>the inevitability of alignment is about trust in cosmic power, imagining the universe as an instrument made up of planets, space and time \u2013 the solar system as a system of celestial mechanics where eventually everything clicks into place like a combination lock. Solomon Kraus builds layered lexicons in order to explore, as he describes, \u201cmeaning in life and meaning in time and the passing of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Solomon Kraus (b. 1987 in Ohio, US) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cooper Union in 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include Spotlight: Dylan Kraus\u2019 Corvus Cornix, Almine Rech, London, Holy Unrest, Peres Projects, Milan, Which Reveals Itself to Those It May Concern, Mamoth, London and The Shining, Entrance, New York. Solomon Kraus has also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions including Everything is Personal, Tramps, New York, Horology, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, Monotypes with Friends, Entrance, New York and The Skies and the Atmosphere Most Luscious, James Fuentes, New York.<\/p>\n<p>PERES PROJECTS<br \/>\nHotel Shilla B1, 249, Dongho-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea<br \/>\n+82 2 2233 2335<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peresprojects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEB<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/peresprojects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-15122","insights","type-insights","status-publish","hentry","category-insight","category-stories"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}