2017
This publication is a contemporary reprint of Piet Mondrian’s work, developed as part of a multidisciplinary project that included an installation, a live performance, and a poster—created in collaboration with Yeon Sung and Dominika Fojtikova. Conceived as a metaphorical time machine, the project enabled a performer to engage in an imagined dialogue with Mondrian, adopting the perspectives of the Abstract-Real painter and the Layman from Trialogue.
The book explores the concept of the ‘New Man’ by uniting two contrasting mediums: a digital online platform and traditional printmaking techniques, including mono-printing. Through this fusion, the publication reflects on the evolving relationship between modernity, abstraction, and human identity across time.
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) created both paintings and writings that embodied the spirit of modernism. Mondrian saw himself as an arch-Modernist with uncompromisingly strong ideas about what art was to be about in the next century. He viewed abstraction as the ideal artistic and spiritual direction, and argued this cause in his most important text, "Natural Reality and Abstract Reality." Mondrian's Trialogue carefully presents the artist's ideas through the voices of A Layman, A Naturalist Painter, and An Abstract-Real Painter. Abstraction contains, Mondrian proposes, the essence of what art of all the ages sought to express - relationship, harmony, repose, life force, the universal. In the Trialogue, Mondrian demonstrates the basis of his new art form in visible reality. (Goodreads)