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Shun Endo

male, born in 1947, Japanese American

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Untitled 2000. Untitled 2000; 22x30; Oil on wood; Dipych, 120x24; Oil on paper. Untitled 1999; 22x30; Oil on paper.
Untitled 2000; 72x20; Oil on wood, dipych. Untitled 2000; 72x20; Oil on wood, dipych. Untitled 2000; 72x20; Oil on wood, dipych.

Themes:
nature


Review:
Shun Endo creates abstract paintings that have also a little bit of conceptual elements. The major concern of this artist is the duality of our life, which, the artist believes, forces us to deal with the opposing elements simultaneously without being able to bring them together, and the intense anxiety engendered from facing those opposing elements. For this artist, keeping the perspective of indifference and unintentionality seems to be the best solution in tackling his troubling reality because he believes that the very existence of the duality depends on the fact that the two co-existing elements have not accomplished the union, but rather exist with apparent indifference. Thus, Endo expresses this idea of indifference and unintentionality in the form of parallel lines. The artist also believes that this sense of indifference and unintentionality leads to a sense of incompleteness, letting him to embody the notion that absolute and aesthetic forms are often manifested in the forms of incomplete and empty form, forms without form. Available research materials on this artist in the AAAC Archives are 28 slides.