IN SEARCH OF ORIGIN - by SHURENTSETSEG Sukhbat
03 - 15 September, 2019
Altan Khaan Gallery
03 - 15 September, 2019
Altan Khaan Gallery
Foreword
Artist Shurentsetseg Sukhbat is presenting her exhibition “In Search of the Origin” at Altan Khaan Gallery to enchant our mind and vision in synchrony with the colors of autumn.
She successfully presented her first solo exhibition at Best Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar in 2015 and received critical acclaims and encouraging words from the Mongolian art community and professionals. The current exhibition is the milestone in the artist's process of coming out as a survivor from extraordinary struggles that she went through since her last exhibition.
The works displayed for the exhibition are seemingly different from her previous works in terms of concept and narrations. Nevertheless, we can still vividly see the distinct attributions Shurentsetseg ascribes to her works such as warm, ochre, deep and stable blue, green, and brown colors; description of contested female characters against the normalized character of beautiful women as well as the creative deformation of the common traditional forms and subjects.
Over 30 artworks of small and medium-size, created in 2019 are put out for the view. In them, she tried to describe her reflection on the currents and changes happening in the midst of the evolution and development of our cultural and social life from the viewpoint of women. The reason for underlining women’s perspective is to some extent, comes from the fact that male and female human beings were always given different roles, nurturance, and disposition from the family and society due to gender segregation. In this sense, living in a distinctive state of social life, they perceive the world from dissimilar angles. From this standpoint, artist Shurentsetseg is urging us to comprehend the mutual and balanced relationship between nature and humans while depicting it through her feminine intuition and affection.
When we see her exhibition works, glamorous Mongolian ladies, mature and motherly women, and beautiful queens with bold and vigorous spirit alternatively emerge on the canvases. This visualization leads us to a question. Why are they all alone on the canvas? It is apparent that the artist wants us to read the not so obvious messages in these works. For the curious minds, allow me to give a hint to assist your labor of interpretation: Standing alone does not mean feeling alone, it means she is strong enough to surmount the obstacles by herself with the wisdom of a queen.
However, in some of the paintings, the characters are not alone. They are presented with mother earth and animals in peaceful coexistence. It demonstrates that mother earth has unconditional affection for animals and human beings just as the way mother unconditionally loves her own offspring. On the other hand, the artist wants everyone to get the piece of the lesson and perception she learned from her parents about the compassion and awareness towards all the existing beings in the Earth.
In the end, each and every work of Shurentsetseg is the result of her artistic creation, experience, knowledge, and intuition as well as the representation of her distinctive composition and style. Ultimately, I would say this exhibition is the representation of Surentsetseg’s intellectual search and transition into another phase of her life as an individual.
Academic and Curator
Myagmartseren Purev
©2019 The author’s name must be mentioned along with any reproduction and citation of the text.
Artist Shurentsetseg Sukhbat is presenting her exhibition “In Search of the Origin” at Altan Khaan Gallery to enchant our mind and vision in synchrony with the colors of autumn.
She successfully presented her first solo exhibition at Best Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar in 2015 and received critical acclaims and encouraging words from the Mongolian art community and professionals. The current exhibition is the milestone in the artist's process of coming out as a survivor from extraordinary struggles that she went through since her last exhibition.
The works displayed for the exhibition are seemingly different from her previous works in terms of concept and narrations. Nevertheless, we can still vividly see the distinct attributions Shurentsetseg ascribes to her works such as warm, ochre, deep and stable blue, green, and brown colors; description of contested female characters against the normalized character of beautiful women as well as the creative deformation of the common traditional forms and subjects.
Over 30 artworks of small and medium-size, created in 2019 are put out for the view. In them, she tried to describe her reflection on the currents and changes happening in the midst of the evolution and development of our cultural and social life from the viewpoint of women. The reason for underlining women’s perspective is to some extent, comes from the fact that male and female human beings were always given different roles, nurturance, and disposition from the family and society due to gender segregation. In this sense, living in a distinctive state of social life, they perceive the world from dissimilar angles. From this standpoint, artist Shurentsetseg is urging us to comprehend the mutual and balanced relationship between nature and humans while depicting it through her feminine intuition and affection.
When we see her exhibition works, glamorous Mongolian ladies, mature and motherly women, and beautiful queens with bold and vigorous spirit alternatively emerge on the canvases. This visualization leads us to a question. Why are they all alone on the canvas? It is apparent that the artist wants us to read the not so obvious messages in these works. For the curious minds, allow me to give a hint to assist your labor of interpretation: Standing alone does not mean feeling alone, it means she is strong enough to surmount the obstacles by herself with the wisdom of a queen.
However, in some of the paintings, the characters are not alone. They are presented with mother earth and animals in peaceful coexistence. It demonstrates that mother earth has unconditional affection for animals and human beings just as the way mother unconditionally loves her own offspring. On the other hand, the artist wants everyone to get the piece of the lesson and perception she learned from her parents about the compassion and awareness towards all the existing beings in the Earth.
In the end, each and every work of Shurentsetseg is the result of her artistic creation, experience, knowledge, and intuition as well as the representation of her distinctive composition and style. Ultimately, I would say this exhibition is the representation of Surentsetseg’s intellectual search and transition into another phase of her life as an individual.
Academic and Curator
Myagmartseren Purev
©2019 The author’s name must be mentioned along with any reproduction and citation of the text.
Exhibition Details
Title: EQUINE RHAPSODY - by BAZARVAANI Sambuu
Address: Altan Khaan Art Gallery, Chingis Avenue 1, Sukhbaatar district, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. .
Dates: 02 - 15 August, 2019
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm
Admission: Free
Travel: North from the National Public Library, and south from the Union of Mongolia's Artist's.
For press information and images please contact:
Email: [email protected]
Title: EQUINE RHAPSODY - by BAZARVAANI Sambuu
Address: Altan Khaan Art Gallery, Chingis Avenue 1, Sukhbaatar district, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. .
Dates: 02 - 15 August, 2019
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm
Admission: Free
Travel: North from the National Public Library, and south from the Union of Mongolia's Artist's.
For press information and images please contact:
Email: [email protected]