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Talk Show
is a painting that proves the idea that we live in a post-modern
world with the apparent loss of any reasonable hope for alternative
to the present.
In Talk Show,
immediacy unites with immortality, trivial with profound. In our
days the long myth of immortality is replaced by the myth of immediacy.
The substitution
of the trivial for the profound for many was a loss, rather than
a gain, although, the will to be immediate speaks more directly
to our lives. Jaisini unites the two principles, searching for unique
ways that can create this double effect of a physical lowland, united
with the philosophical purity of mind. Talk Show has the significance
of biblical wisdom based on a street scene. In Talk Show, Jaisini
pictures not the dark side' of people, but the substantial one,
when sex became 'the lyricism of the masses'.
The picture
shows that we live in a more cynical, realistic time by means of
parody. The new cynicism is the old one. The work is timeless and
can relate to anyone. Talk Show has the analogous environment as
in the work called Show Time; the crowd representatives and the
image that centers the crowd's attention. In Talk Show, it is the
two dogs in an intercourse that attracts the attention of different
people of the crowd. In the painting we can clearly see the interlocked
line of composition. This line flows freely as an unconscious line.
The absence of an 'end' in Jaisini's composition may be the artist's
revolt against the end of ideology and the general failures of social
theory, obsessed with 'ends', with visions of finished worlds and
finalities.
Modern society
was once based on a principle of expansion, but having reached a
certain 'critical mass' it has begun to recoil. Is this why Jaisini
creates his secluded line composition? What we are witnessing in
the domain of the social is a kind of inverse explosion. The artist
avoids breaking the line because any attempt to save the principle
of expansion is not 'archaic' and regressive. The principle of enclosure
is the radical inquiry for continuance. Jaisini has found his way
to avoid the end-state. His closed circle of composition creates
a new visual code that guarantees the 'addressee,' a recognizable
meaning.
The Talk Show
mockery reflects the contemporary condition of Byzantizm. It could
be mentioned here that evenin Cicero's time, the ancient world was
becoming stupid. Talk Show may symbolize the mass communication
as an enclosing circle connecting mass culture and its audiences
of 'mass conformist,' the picture's title can be attributed to the
fact that consequently television, along with the rest of mass culture,
has become an undreamed-of medium of psychological control. We become
part of mass communication circuits, part of a realm and era of
connection, contact, feedback, an era that is 'obscene,' yet lunar
cold. The reason why the artist prescribes the emerald color to
his painting may be to symbolize the coldness of the contemporary
world of communications which contacts penetrate without resistance.
In the picture, we see the dogs' intercourse as the critique of
the talk show.
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© 2000 Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb All Rights Reserved
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