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Serial no.: Johnny Carlsen-2022-10/10
  • Style: Abstract
  • Color: Other
  • Material: Paper
  • Thickness: Below 2 mm

Know Thyself - where am I

Photo art by Johnny Carlsen

Black and white photography with abstract painting in gold, silver and red and "Know Thyself - Offer" stamp. Red "Nothing in Excess - Acquired" stamped when sold. 

The focal point of the installation "Know Thyself - where am I" is the meeting itself - Encounter - as a concept, where fault lines and tension fields arise and are expressed in varying forms.

The meeting is exposed in different ways via photography and paint . As a multimodal universe, the various encounters in an embrace with the viewer's senses are illuminated through the aphorisms in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, where "Know thyself" (Gr. gnothi seauton) is the most well-known.

The meeting is further put into perspective when the audience and the works are confronted; The viewer - meets oneself in the encounter with art; feelings and thoughts arise and assessments are made based on the understandings the various drafts of opinion give.

The Ancient Greek aphorism "Know Thyself" (Greek: γνῶθι σεαυτόν, transliterated: gnōthi seauton; also ... σαυτόν … sauton with the ε contracted) is the first of three Delphic maxims inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek writer Pausanias (10.24.1). The two maxims that follow "Know Thyself" were "Nothing in Excess" and "Certainty Brings Insanity". In Latin the phrase, "Know Thyself", is given as nosce te ipsum or temet nosce.  

The maxim, or aphorism, "Know Thyself" has had a variety of meanings attributed to it in literature, and over time, as in early ancient Greek the phrase means "Know Your Limits". Saying "Nothing in Excess" is essentially the same as saying "Everything in moderation"

Know your limits when offering

Moderate when acquiring

Price: USD 50.00
Shipping fee: USD 10.00