Carlo D’Anselmi, Maxim Brandt, Shinyoung Park

《Oscillate Sequence》, 2024, Installation view, ThisWeekendRoom, Courtesy of the artist and ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul

ThisWeekendRoom is pleased to release the group show Oscillate Sequence with Carlo D’Anselmi, Maxim Brandt, and Shinyoung Park from July 12th to August 17th, 2024. This exhibition is curated to intersect the characteristics found in the works of three artists who produce images from different motives. They consider the micro and macro factors that shape their lives as the basis for their work and build theatrical and unrealistic scenes through everyday people and objects. For them, the catalysts of art are the emotions triggered by relationships with others, the tensions and concerns arising between humans and nature, and the Vanitas question posed at every turn of life. Each visual reference they collect is carefully collaged through intense contrasts of light and shade, a wide spectrum of colors and traditional representational techniques, oscillating between material bases and metaphysical ideas.

Carlo D’Anselmi, Summer Dreams In Wintertime, 2024, oil on canvas, 76 x 56 cm, Courtesy of the artist and ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul

Carlo D’Anselmi depicts lovers under the light of nature and city night, as well as the flowers, birds, cats and trees that fill their surroundings. His paintings feature warm exchanges of gaze, varied materials, and a rhythm of bold strokes and shimmering colors. Scenes that suggest a mysterious dreamlike story evoke a myriad of emotions that language cannot fully describe yet clearly exist. In particular, the fundamental sense of love and solidarity that has motivated humanity to create for centuries a dynamic source of thought in his work.

Maxim Brandt, The Artist, 2023, acrylic and oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm, Courtesy of the artist and ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul

Maxim Brandt is interested in the universal messages of the world and applies the implicit logic of poetry to his work. Traditional oil painting techniques, graffiti and sleek digital graphic elements collide in his paintings to create a fictionalized space, and these symbols are drawn from real-life creatures, unrelated events, or borrowed from cultural and artistic references. Each chaotic and beautiful utopia is a place filled with allegory and metaphor, breaking down the walls between everyday life and dreams, human and non-human, present and past, nature and civilization, and creating a space for fictional scenes to penetrate reality.

Shinyoung Park, 이카루스의 추락 The Fall of Icarus, 2024, screenprint monotype on Legion stonehenge paper 245gsm, 44.3 x 34.8 cm, Courtesy of the artist and ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul

Shinyoung Park‘s monotype works are densely populated with iconography, both artificial and natural. Recently, she has begun to compose scenes extracted from different fragments of reality stemming from the restriction of physical movement due to the pandemic. Witnessing environment changes through screens and realizing new possibilities for the synchronic and diachronic movement of time, the artist feels curiosity, anxiety, fear, and nostalgia for what humans have built. These changes in how she experiences the world soon influence the images she creates, evolving her work into landscapes woven with increasingly cryptic and complex symbols.

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