Jin Meyerson
Progress is no Longer a Guarantee
Berlin, September 30 - November 9, 2007
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Opening on Saturday, September 29, 2007, 7 – 9 pm
The Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin has the pleasure to present Jin Meyerson’s first solo exhibition in Germany in September. Meyerson, born in 1972 in South Korea and raised in the US, lives and works in New York and Paris. In recent years his works have been shown internationally at institutions and galleries, among them the Chelsea Art Museum (NY) and the Saatchi Gallery (London).
Meyerson’s paintings remind one of American news broadcaster’s TV pictures absorbed by giants and spat out again with vehemence. Glaring streaks of colour undulate on large-sized canvases and make the embodied figures look as if shredded by a psychedelic distorting mirror.
Meyerson, professing TV junkie and part of a generation of artists
grown up with mass media, collects the flotsam of the daily pictorial
overkill in his psyche, shakes it thoroughly and sends it back to the
world outside, filtered through the cosmos of his private existence and
seemingly without any assessment.
But the political dimension is already applied in the subject of the
newscast pictures. Reports on natural disasters like the devastating
hurricane “Katrina” in 2005, the attacks on the World Trade Center, or
reports from the war in Afghanistan inevitably bestow a feeling of
uneasiness on the viewer, the memory of collective helplessness and
horror. The permanent cuts and abruptly interrupted narrative strands
build the formal equivalent of the disturbing impression that
Meyerson’s pictures leave on a deeper level.
Jin Meyerson, born in 1972 in Inchon City/ South Korea; 1997 MFA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; solo exhibitions (extract): 2007 Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, 2006 Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) NY, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Paris; group exhibitions (extract): 2007 More is More – Maximalist Painting Museum of Fine Arts/ Florida State University/ Tallahasse Vanhaerents Foundation Torhout, The New Authentics Spertus Museum Chicago, 2006 The Triumph of Painting The Saatchi Gallery London, 2004 Surface Tension Chelsea Art Museum NY.