VISUAL MEDITATION IN THE CONTEXT OF EAST-EAST OR THE UNACHIEVABLE EXHIBITION OF TAI-JUNG UM IN THE GALLERY "ARARIO"

Abstract

e article concerns the question of the reincarnation and the development of ideas in visual arts - from form to form and from one world to another. The affirmation of the abstract idea in the contemporary American art and presumably the prototypes related to this process - the works of K. Brancusi and K. Malevich. Certain ideas characterize the creativity of these authors - Konstantin Brancusi and the folk presentation of ideas and forms, Kazimir Malevich with thematerial "Form, Color and Sensation" in "Contemporary Architecture", issue 5 of 1928. Meditation practice must be considered as reflection, concentrating attention on an object that is external to the body to help achieve the visual image and the meaning of the idea. The exhibition (in the “Arario”gallery) by the South Korean author (sculptor) Um Tai-Jung isat the core of the study, in some of his works are found prototypes or quotes from works by K. Brancusi and K. Malevich.The movements of ideas in the context of East - West, West - East and East - East, as well as the works of Um Tai-Jung "Mandala" and "Stranger Holding Two Wings" are analyzed. It might be concluded that these works as new objects themselves have been created as giving rise to meditation. Based on Malevich’sstatement that the achievement of the world is inaccessible to the artist, it can be said that just as reality cannot be achieved, the artist’s creativity is also unattainable to the viewer, except as meditation.