(oil painting by Jaisini)


In his art, Jaisini insists on overcoming of the dehumanization, the
suppression of sensuality.
In every historical period there are ideas and problems which are
expressed and will not come to pass. Jaisini seeks to identify this idea in the
present, excavate it from the past, and invent it in a new way for the
future.
In the murky, anxious world of ours, in the midst of the soul's confusions
and the multiplying moral losses, the artist seeks and always finds some
big and small islands of "eternal truths," and asserts the indestructible
age-long parables that reveal these truths in the new light, in his own
system of sign-images.
I realized that the more you look at "Gleitzeit" works and think, the more
you see, feel, and understand, but never completely, as given work always
has too many aspects.
There is always some kind of "space" in the painting, on which the
observer feels free, without a persistent prompting of the artist, to use his
own
system of perception.
To me, "Marble Lady" seems as a late modern modification of the Greek myth
of the sculptor Pygmalion, who used his illusionist skill to satisfy a private
fantasy of the ideal woman. Disappointed by the imperfections of the opposite
sex, he created Galatea out of marble and during a festival in honor of Venus,
Pygmalion prayed for a woman as perfect as his statue. Venus
answered his prayer by bringing his statue to life and eliminated the boundary
between reality and illusion.
In Jaisini's "Marble Lady," the object of the intense desire remains
alluring, yet perpetually distant. Desire of the others is often imagined in
terms of a fetish. The so-called civilized man can be considered in his
delight of female form.
In "Marble Lady," we find the two types of spectatorship: the masculine and
the non-masculine. Therefore, an image of the woman is defined through the
desire of both spectators, the unmanly poet and the savage who may well be
a subscriber to "Penis Power Quarterly."
The statue of Galatea was and still is the symbol of fictional perfection, a
result
of the search for ideal woman that parallels the artist's own creative
urge. A post-feminist culture has found out a way to reinvent the woman as
she once was: eager to appear physically attractive, the man-made woman.
The "Marble Lady" enables male domination by being unreachable and desirable.
The construction of such a female identity fiction can inspire both high and
low
natures. In all of his works, Jaisini unites the high and low principles,
integrating
art into the material life, breaking out of art's ivory tower.
"Marble Lady" is a compact, pyramidal composition of the "trio." As in all of
his works, Jaisini subdues the figures to the articulation of line and its
rhythmic connection between forms in space, a sort of analytical process,
based on the line swinging which starts up ideas, shapes, and colors.
The line arabesques are these highly individual textures of Jaisini's art.
A decorative role of the painting's color is to create the temperature
contrast
of the heated environment with the marble-cold statue.
In modern and postmodern times, there are increasingly fewer outlets for
sensual urges and desires which lay at the origin of human society that
imposes restrictions. Sexuality remained beyond the scope of most art
history. Interaction between male and female is still responsible for the
continued functioning of the universe.

by Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb
Thank you for reading

Marble Lady (Oil painting) by Paul Jaisini, New York 1999
Text Copyright: Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb
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