Simple and complex, plain yet deep – when these different colors, shapes, and sizes of geometry lock onto each other in some way, it's as unique as the fingerprints of everyone in the world. So there is no doubt that you also have such a portrait, as long as you start to look for your true self, you will definitely see it at the end of the search.
—Jason Boyd Kinsella
Fragments, Unit London
Before 24 May last year, if you step into the United London Gallery in Mayfair, London's premier commercial and residential district, you'll be able to see an exhibition of contemporary art called Fragments. However, you should never mistake it for a simple pile of building blocks. In fact, each of the works in this exhibition is a portrait with a specific archetype of a person, except that what is depicted in the painting is not their face and facial features, but their psychological fingerprints.
Jean-Michel
Damien
From MBTI to visual geometry
"Psychological Portraits" is the subject of Jason Boyd Kinsella's first solo exhibition in London, Fragments, and the heart of the 53-year-old Canadian artist's artistic practice that he has once again embarked on after a 30-year hiatus in painting.
Mariss
Gerald
Agatha
Based on a long-standing interest in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is based on Jungian theory of psychological types and aims to decompose human personality into specific sets of features, Kinsella further abstracted the modular organization corresponding to the individual psychological components of human beings into visual geometry and used it as a building block to deconstruct human complexity. Each combination of these geometries uniquely corresponds to the psychological characteristics of a particular person, and it is this artistic psychological profile that has led Toncera's work to be labeled a "hyper-contemporary psychological portrait."
Bruce
Hearth
Anthony
Strictly speaking, a single abstracted geometry doesn't make much sense in itself, and when many geometries begin to connect, nest, and lock in some way, that wonderful correlation is the new perspective that Kinsella pursues. Softer, rounder edges blend together to convey gentler attributes, while stronger lines and sharper sharp corners reflect a tougher personality. In this sense, Kinsella's psychological portraits are more like unique fingerprints that define not only his visual language, but also everyone in the world with such a visual language.
Luke
Nick
Herman
Jonathan
When "Picasso" Meets "Psychology"
Kinsela was born in 1969 in Toronto, Canada. Like many supporters of modern art, in his youth, when his artistic ideas were formed, he was also deeply influenced by Pablo Picasso, the greatest artistic genius of the 20th century, and Picasso's extraordinary understanding of the artistic perspective in the Cubist movement in particular still had a firm meaning for Kinsella. He aspires to achieve the same composite perspective in his works, and expects the audience to be able to observe and think from multiple dimensions when admiring his portraits.
After gaining wide recognition and rich creative experience from the creative industry and the advertising industry, in 2019, Kinsella decided to devote all her energy to painting. For Kinseira, psychology is the science of exploring human nature, and advertising is the use of psychology to understand and drive human behavior. His experience in the advertising industry has nourished his current artistic practice, and the integration of art and psychology has allowed him to develop his own psychological portrait theory with a distinct positioning.
Langston
Langston (profile)
Albert
Albert 1
For many years, I have been working in advertising. The sole purpose of advertising creative is to lead every audience to the same conclusion about what they've just seen, whereas in my art of painting the situation is the complete opposite—if everyone feels differently after reading the work, that's a successful creation. Being able to give a wide range of insights will be a very pleasant thing for me and the audience.
Jason Boyd Kinsella
Studio in Oslo
De-digitizing the "real me"
In the internet age, the explosive growth of social media has inspired the innate desire of almost all people to transform themselves into others. Today, people use various filters to enhance the quality features of the body and eliminate any imperfections that people don't want to see, with the result that people's appearance is no longer a trustworthy attribute. Therefore, in the contemporary society that is constantly being swallowed up by digitalization, when people have the ability to constantly deconstruct and rebuild themselves, they are likely to forget what is really themselves.
Chris
Study 9
Lars
Jin
John
Therese
The definition of the "true self" inspired Kinseira to constantly explore the structural and psychological diversity of the physical dimension of human beings. His psychological portrait is like a minimalist mirror of "de-digitization", which reflects not the eyebrow face visible to the naked eye, but the intuitive thinking of extracting the raw materials for constructing the "true self" and then going deep into the core of life in the form of "element combination". This simplification goes beyond the representations of the flesh and bones to create a complete, accurate, and honest psychological picture at a time when "uncertainty" is prevalent.
Dave
Francis
Grace
Kurt
During the "Fragments" campaign, curator and writer Sasha Bogojev had this to say about Kinsela:
Fearlessness of uncharted territory drives Kincella to discover art that touches on human nature on frequent global travels, and whose ultimate creative philosophy is shaped by a combination of his professional background and personal experience. Instinctively and restrainedly reducing the subject to basic core markers, this desire to explore the nature of life forms should be understood as a enjoyment of art, not a compulsion to create.
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