MOTIF @hakgojaegallery Seoul Featured show @art.markt • Yunhee NOH and Hyunseok JEONG are the artistic duo behind RohwaJeong. The couple creates multimedia works ranging from installation to painting. Despite their collaboration, their differences in process can be located in each piece, making their body of work simultaneously unified and separate. Some ideas might be decided on and created immediately, while others may take several years of planning. Overall, RohwaJeong’s inspiration relies on mankind’s emotions, relationships, nature, and their personal experiences creating as partners. • #KoreanCurated #hakgojaegallery #Motif #RohwaJeong #KoreanArtist #contemporaryart #Collaboration #Collectives #Installation #Painting #emotion #koreanart #Hardware #Labor #Nature #Relationships #Artistduo #Partnership #artmarkt #markt #asia

Openness - Nowness @Gallery SU: Seoul with works by Ce Jian, Qin Jun, Xie Fan, Nayul KIM, Dongwan KOOK Featured show @art.markt • The show allows viewers to make new observations about contemporary art through a unique array of works by three Chinese artists and two Korean artists. Ce Jian disassembles and reorganizes contemporary social themes through her art, freely traversing her ideas in time and space. Focussing on geometric forms, Qin Jun expresses the logic that current painting methods fail to interact with a broader plane of consciousness. Xie Fan paints on semi-transparent silk, creating a new artistic surface that blends together light, silk, oil and frames in an attempt to overcome the universal appeal for flat painting. Inspired by visual experiences and the imagination, Nayul Kim overlaps abstract shapes and digital images to produce visually complex paintings and displays an invisible world. Donwan Kook’s works display settings and ideas that reflect our unconscious minds. This exhibition is partners with Baudoin Lebon, whose current exhibition ‘Street Life’ is an experimental narrative that deals with the hardships of young people in the USA. • #gallerysu #samcheongdong #seoul #contemporaryart #artists #chineseartist #koreanartists #cejian #xiefan #qinjun #kookdongwan #nayulkim #2019 #openness #nowness #artmarkt #markt #baudoinlebonseoul

“Dog, or bird, or pot” With works by Doyeon KIM @uhjjuhdah.gallery2.lounge • The title is a line by French poet Jean Genet. This phrase wasn't a particularly important one, but it stuck in the artist’s mind. Unconsciously, she began to imagine the lives of these three objects, and found that although the words were familiar in their textual meaning, their essence was difficult to comprehend. Sometimes a word has a fixed meaning, but depending on the speaker or the listener, the meaning of the word is conveyed differently. We cannot always put into words what lingers in our minds. Thus, this exhibition is composed of works that try to understand and interpret language or experiences as an image through Kim’s imagination in front of words listed without context, or words that she doesn’t fully understand. • #exhibition #koreancontemporaryart #doyeonkim #uhjjuhdahgallery2 #lounge #opening #jeangenet #language #experience #imagination #essence #unconscious #oil #drawings #muberrypaper #김도연개인전 #어쩌다갤러리2 #연남동 #망원동 #한국현대미술 #작가 #전시회#오일드로잉 #장지 #무의식 #언어 #상상 #소통

New Order With works by Yuki Yamazaki @galleryonefour Seoul • Transforming the views from the sky into semi abstract compositions, Yamazaki recalls a memory of his childhood living in a constant fear of natural disasters, Tokai earthquake in Shizuoka that has yet to occur. It is the past memory yet a possible future lingered with fear. Yamazaki brings this ironic complexity of time- a continuation of the moment that has passed- and translates into a visual context we can relate. Formed in two layers, the series shows an aerial photography of the artist's hometown as a base and a spread of 3D data in pattern as an overlay. Images are blended, creating a stimulating texture that is informative to certain eyes. This ambiguity in Yamazaki's work is something he contiunes to explore and define with the core understanding of history (the past) and digital era we live. • #gallery #exhibition #shows #contemporaryart #photography #japaneseartist #yukiyamazaki #onefour #seoul #itaewon #earthquake #manipulation #미술전시 #현대미술 #갤러리원포 #사진전시회

Motif @hakgojaegallery Seoul through Jan 27, 2019 • Eunsae LEE’s style is the gap between a representation of reality and sentimental expressions. In fact, the opposite of a painting based on reality is not abstraction, but an expression of emotions and the incarnated spirit. After all, painting is a zero-sum game between reality and the identity of a painter. We ought to read the changes in an attitude than in a formality from the painting. As a producer of a painting (image), the artist asks herself a question about the power she has and devotes her hands to a more moderate task. It is perseverance of thinking. LEE confessed that she, who intended to fight a reality in which social issues and women are objectified within the image, was also reproducing the same images and making aesthetic work. It is an introspective testimony that examines and looks at back the artist. • #hakgojaegallery #seoul #korean #contemporaryart #motif #eunsaelee #representation #reality #vs #sentimental #expression #전시 #현대미술 #작가 #한국현대미술 #학고재 #모티프 #그룹전