An exhibition of new work by Benjamin Swaim will debut at Art Ono Seoul for its second edition.<\/p>\n
The Franco-American contemporary impressionist presents an intimate and compelling series Make Up<\/i> focusing on the human subject in pulsating bold and bright hues. Make Up seemingly questions its role play as a medium (and facade) in how the human condition unfolds in the ever-changing expectations of reality.<\/p>\n
Edward Hopper\u00b4s, Soir Bleu comes to mind.\u00a0 <\/span>Painted in 1914 in New York focusing on the lone figure which is a clown in a cafe amongst other everyday characters provides a critique of Parisian life from an outsiders perspective. A distinct sense of melancholy and sadness.<\/p>\n For Swaim, the experience of painting is still a powerful sensory and emotional engagement, often a measure to release a certain tension and allow the audience to respond in your own way.\u00a0 <\/span>Each painting portrays a quiet presence and a resonating beauty evoking a sense to grapple with the concept of identity, the emotional and psychological undertones - while they hold a desire to confront the contractions of perception and narrative, temporality and space.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An exhibition of new work by Benjamin Swaim will debut at Art Ono Seoul for its second edition. The Franco-American contemporary impressionist presents an intimate and compelling series Make Up focusing on the human subject in pulsating bold and bright hues. Make Up seemingly questions its role play as a medium (and facade) in howContinue reading “Benjamin Swaim”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7361,"featured_media":12907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country-region":[108],"class_list":["post-11582","artist","type-artist","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-region-france"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/11582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/11582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12913,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/11582\/revisions\/12913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.art-ono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country-region?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}