Poster image of “Cloudy 3pm” ©Sungkok Art MuseumSungkok
Art Museum presents a group exhibition “Cloudy 3pm” until December 8. This
exhibition sheds light on the trends in 2000s Korean figurative art through the
Seoul landscapes and portraits of nine artists who explored painting within the
intersection of photography and drawing amidst the era of digital camera
commercialization.
The nine
artists featured in the exhibition are part of a new generation of figurative
artists who emerged in the early 2000s, differing in their approach to reality
from movements like Minjung Art or hyperrealism. While looking at reality,
these artists maintained an observational perspective through the camera, and
therefore, secured an emotional distance from the fierce field which the
Minjung Art was devoted to.
Unlike
hyperrealism, they utilized camera’s gaze to transform reality into a pictorial
scene by using photographs as sketches for paintings. As a result, they created
a pictorial space and time that the individual emotions each artist experienced
in reality were projected onto.
This
exhibition highlights the generational differences in approach, focusing on the
distinct attitude taken compared to the socially critical Minjung Art or the
Hyperrealism that sought to represent photography. It presents a painterly
world achieved through the utilization of photographic methodologies.
Participating
Artists : Kang Seok Ho, Kim Su Young, Roh
Choong-Hyun, Park Ju-Wook, Park Jina, Suh Dongwook, Lee Kwang-Ho, Lee Moonjoo,
Leeje
11월 23일 토요일 오후 3시에는 이번 전시와 연계된 관객참여형 퍼포먼스 “에어 쉐어 페어(The Air Share Fair)”가 진행될 예정이다. 자세한 일정과 내용은 별관 홈페이지 및 인스타그램에서 확인할 수 있다.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
