Hego Eisol

The fragile balance and fusion of what is self-controlled and passionate, what is thought and felt, ordered and chaotic, individual and shared, is a source of true art. This primordial unity of the Dionysian and Apollonian, so greatly described by young Nietzsche in the Birth of Tragedy, is also what I wish my art to comprise. This juxtaposition of what belongs to nature and what belongs to culture, what is real and unreal and out of control and controlled was also a subject to philosophical speculations of ancient Chinese thinkers who saw art as a game of these forces, in which artist ought to become ‘a tool in the hands of Dao’ – the unnameable principle of flow. A skilled artist was considered a craftsman of li – an ancient pattern of nature that can be found in everything around us.
As a philosophy graduate, I aim to combine the meaningfulness and spontaneity, thought and intuition in order to create art at its best: full of hidden significance yet light and joyful. I see art as a completion, or even coronation, for philosophy, and painting itself as a scaffolding for thought – a construction to initiate and support ideas and concepts, and also, as a structure created to refresh the mind. The meaning, in this case, arrives spon...

Self-taught artist.