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Artist Daseul Song: A Study on the Generative Principles of ‘Digital Abstract Moving Images’
Daseul Song (b. 1990) explores the sensations and narratives generated at the boundary between the screen and physical reality through what she terms “digital abstract moving images.” She approaches image data not merely as visual information, but as an object that records the corporeality of contemporary image producers and consumers alike, and creates video works that invite viewers to imagine and sense this materiality.
2026.01.19
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[Critique] Opening the 'Adult Fairy Tale' through Imagination
Hyunsun Jeon’s paintings resemble fairy tale books with no text. Within them, exotic spaces and unfamiliar past times tumble about in a state of indefinable vagueness. These works are populated with grandmothers, girls, wolves, rabbits, wild boars—scenes filled with ambiguous incidents unfolding between humans and animals. The characters living in the time-space of a fairy tale continuously send and receive unspoken messages, forging their roles through mutual exchange.
2012.05.01
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[Critique] The Helping Vowel
In 1884, the International Meridian Conference was convened in Washington, DC, to fix “upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time-reckoning throughout the globe.”
2023
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《Modulate》, 2020.03.05 – 2020.05.09, Perigee Gallery
Nakhee Sung has long used the most fundamental elements of painting—dot, line, and plane—to generate musical rhythms and cadences within the pictorial space, or at times to express the organic, gliding movement of color and form that flows freely like a living organism. In her recent works, however, large color fields have come to the forefront, marking a shift in her formal language.
2020.03.05
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[Critique] A new method of playing with illusion and reality – Gwon Osang
On February 17, 2004, at the opening of the 《Real Reality》 show at Kukje Gallery, the artist Gwon Osang seemed to have put everything that was of the 90s behind him, and in doing so, marked a small but significant victory. Through 《Real Reality》, Gwon became the first artist to come knocking on the doors of commercial success, and move beyond the obscure fray of the present art scene, largely made up of “second-generation baby boomer” artists and established by the tendencies of the 1990s. (“Second-generation baby boomers” refers to those born in Korea in the early-and mid-1970s. The birth rate statistics chart for post-war Korea resembles a camel with two humps. The first generation of baby boomers was born in the mid-and late-1960s, and the talkative and problematic 386 generation constitutes its core group.[1] While the population momentarily paused in 1971, the figures exploded again in the mid-1970s. Those born during that time are the second-generation baby boomers, known as the “Seo Taiji” [2]generation, which led the way to a mass consumer culture.) 《Real Reality》 represented a very significant event, as the first show within the domestic commercial gallery system that featured young Korean artists in their early 30s as the exhibition headliners. (In form, 《Real Reality》 was a four-person show that included Bae Bien-U (b.1950), Gwon Osang (b.1974), Lee Yoon-jean (b.1972) and Lee Joong-keun; in actuality, it was more like a three-person show of Gwon, Lee Yoon-jean and Lee Joong-keun.) When editions of the works in the show sold in large numbers following the opening, this served as proof that a domestic market able to handle young Korean artists really did exist. Did this mean that a new “niche market” had been cultivated? Sure enough, a little later on in February 2005, Gwon captured the public eye when he was chosen by Ci Kim (Kim Chang-il), head of Arario Gallery, to be a represented by Arario, and the artist soon entered a one-year hiatus. (As of 2006, Arario Gallery represents a total of 8 Korean artists: Gwon Osang, Koo Dong-hee, Lee Hyungkoo, Chung Sue-jin, Baek Hyun-jin, Park Sejin, Lee Dong-wook, and Jeon Joon-ho; and seven major Chinese artists: Wang Guanyi, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Jianhua, Sui Jianguo, Fang Lijun, and Zeng Hao.)
2006.12.20
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Artist Kim Taek Sang Puts Accumulated Time of Nature on Canvas
Kim Taek-Sang (b. 1958), a leading Korean Post-Dansaekhwa painter, captures the beauty of nature on canvas. As a child growing up in Wonju, Gangwon Province, the artist was greatly influenced by the colors of nature. Observing the beauty hidden in the colors of nature, Kim’s constant search for the essence of water to express its brilliance has led to his current work
2024.07.30
