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Talk Show is a painting that proves the idea that we live in a postmodern
world of the apparent loss of any reasonable hope for alternative to the
present.
In Talk Show, immediacy unites with immortality, trivial with profound. In
our days the long myth of immortality is replaced by the myth of immediacy.
The substitution of the trivial for the profound for many was a loss, rather
than a gain, although, the will to be immediate speaks more directly to our
lives. Jaisini unites the two principles, searching for unique ways that can
create this double effect of a physical lowland, united with the
philosophical purity of mind. Talk Show has a significance of the biblical
wisdom based on a street scene. In Talk Show, Jaisini pictures not the 'dark
side' of people, but the substantial one, when sex became 'the lyricism of
the masses'.
The picture shows that we live in a more cynical, realistic time by means of
parody. The new cynicism is the old one. The work is timeless and can relate
to anyone. Talk Show has the analogous environment as in the work called Show
Time; the crowd representatives and the image that centers the crowd's
attention. In Talk Show, it is the two dogs in an intercourse that attract
the attention of different people of the crowd. In the painting we can
clearly see the interlocked line of composition. This line flows freely as an
unconscious line. The absence of an 'end' in Jaisini's composition may be the
artist's revolt against the end of ideology and the general failures of
social theory, obsessed with 'ends', with visions of finished worlds and
finalities. Modern society was once based on a principle of expansion, but
having reached a certain 'critical mass' it has begun to recoil. Is this why
jaisini creates his secluded line composition?
What we are witnessing in the domain of the social is a kind of inverse
explosion. The artist avoids to break the line because any attempt to save
the principle of expansion is not 'archaic' and regressive. The principle of
enclosure is the radical inquiry for continuance. Jaisini has found his way
to avoid the end-state. His closed circle of composition creates a new
visual code which guarantees the 'addressee,' a recognizable meaning.
The Talk Show mockery reflects the contemporary condition of Byzantizm. It
could be mentioned here that even in Cicero's time, the ancient world was
becoming stupid. Talk Show may symbolize the mass communication as an
enclosing circle connecting mass culture and its audiences of 'mass
conformist,' the picture's title can be attributed to the fact that
consequently television, along with the rest of mass culture, has become an
undreamed-of medium of psychological control. We become part of mass
communication circuits, part of a realm and era of connection, contact,
feedback, an era that is 'obscene,' yet lunar cold. The reason why the artist
prescribes the emerald color to his painting may be to symbolize the coldness
of the contemporary world of communications which contacts penetrate without
resistance. In the picture, we see the dogs' intercourse as the critique of
the talk show.
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