THEORY: ARTICLES

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INTUITION AND SIGNIFICANCE In The Art of Lee Young Rim,

essay on the extraordinary creativity of Korean painter and sculptor Lee Young Rim, an in depth analysis on the naturalness and logic perceiving a clear cohesion in the large variety of her abstract work series exploring the experience of space. In contrast to the market-cliché of ‘branding’, Lee Young Rim trusts her artistic intuition to freely experiment, which avoids mere repetition and leads to exceptional appealing works.
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THE VIEWER? The Actual Purpose of Art,

essay for catalogue for the group exhibition and APA (Art Platform Asia) 2022, 시감(視感)의 웅변 (The The Eloquence of the Visual), organized by critic and curator Lim Kate, Woong Gallery, Seoul, Korea (ROK); to be published 2022;
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SPLENDOR AND MAGNIFICENCE, The Art of Natvar Bhavsar,

extensive essay about the international visual appeal of Bahvsar’s colorful paintings, analogies between Schopenhauer and this Indian-American artist, building on historical multi-cultural influences and mutual inspirations; in principle demonstrating there is more overlap in cultural roots between East and West, then has been acknowledged;
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The Song of The Ages: A Flame of Hope,

essay about Spanish sculptor and painter Cristóbal Gabarrón, for catalogue exhibition, Sculpturepark Bei Wu, Wesenberg, Germany; to be published 2022 by the Gabarrón Foundation; includes background references to Gabarrón’s interest in Daoism, analogous to Miró;
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FLUID SYMMETRY - Logical to Artists, Mesmerizing to Viewers, 2021

has been published in the book Complex Symmetries, Collected Essays, by Prof. Gyuri Darvas, International Symmetry Association, Budapest, Hungary, included in various international science databanks, published as book by Birkhäuser;
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MIND THE GAP! Speed matters in Education: Relating Technology to Human Capacities

Published in book, edited by Denise Feldner, Redesigning Organizations - Concepts for The Connected Society, Springer 2020;
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KANDINSKY, A CASE-STUDY THE LOGIC OF A PERSONAL PICTORIAL LANGUAGE

Natural to artists, but naturally puzzling to scholars. A research report commissioned by the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, 2015-2016;
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PULSATIO–VISUAL BREATHINGS OF LIFE THE LOGIC OF A PERSONAL PICTORIAL LANGUAGE

short essay on the Egyptian artist Mohamed Taha Hussein, for exhibition catalogue Al Masar Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2015;
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Art After The Crisis: The Social Value of the Collector for Cultural Development

written for and published in Public Art, Korea, www.artinpost.co.kr, issue May 2010;
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MOTIVATION TO REVIEW THE VIEWER

a call to consider actions exploring the link between art and the brain;
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