[SHOWS] JIN MINWOOK & KIM MINJOO: 'SKETCHBOOK: LANDSCAPE IN MIND' @HANWON MUSEUM OF ART

JUNE 15TH, 2019 



JIN MINWOOK & KIM MINJOO: 'SKETCHBOOK: LANDSCAPE IN MIND'

진민욱 & 김민주 : 제10회 畵歌 '화첩: 심상공간心象空間' 展

(재) 한원미술관 ㅣ HANWON MUSEUM OF ART, Seoul

2019. 04. 11 - 06. 14



 


'SKETCHBOOK: LANDSCAPE IN MIND' at Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul features a selection of Korean paintings by JIN MINWOOK and KIM MINJOO. The exhibition presents how two emerging artists navigate their ways in capturing the essential identity of traditional Korean paintings while reflecting their own modern-days experience collectively. 


Exploring the concept of 'place', two artists engage with surrounding environment that they encounter daily and seek for mundane objects that are often neglected for being ordinary and familiar. In their present body of works, both Jin Minwook and Kim Minjoo suggest different points of view on how they perceived such spaces found near us - ultimately creating new time and space of their own. Questioning themselves, the artists continue to communicate with the present and past forms of Korean paintings; hence, the landscapes they recreate present blurring lines of reality and virtual reality.

JIN MINWOOK 


 



JIN MINWOOK's works focus on unfamiliar landscapes and look into found objects and places where she encounter each subject. The idea of a term '常春 (sang-chun),' which is normally a literary expression for 'everlasting spring,'  often reappears in her series of works as the base of her contextual meaning. This '春 (chun)' refers to a psychological consequence or a certain time of moment when an individual feels relaxed and able to contemplate the beauty of life- rather than simply meaning 'spring'. Jin presents the landscape that she encountered in a particular place or remembering something through an object near her from various points of perspectives. Found in the city, each object is an inspiration and stimulation for her eyes and mind, as well as an idea for her body of works. She collects various scenes that she encounters directly and presents them in the forms of paintings, photography, and recordings to express and project her feelings. 





 


KIM MINJOO 



 

Through visual language of her own, KIM MINJOO presents an ideal world that originates from traditional Asian philosophies. For Kim, nature is a place where people live and provide foundations for cognitive thinking. By attempting to imagine ideal elements of landscape into the real world, Kim suggests a moment to relax and breathe in fast changing society. Kim collects and edits photographs of sceneries, houses, and buildings that she took during numerous trips in order to abstract and recreate an ideal nature of her own. Instead of simply knowing the ideal forms of nature, Kim combines elements of reality with the ideal nature described in philosophies, in which enables the viewers to realize the unusual ecology of the city.




 

 



 



 





 

 

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