The artist should sensitively focus on similarity and composition that appears among the figural shapes. In addition, she should keep reflecting on and determine how much the crack can be accepted. What is obvious is that extemporaneousness and fortuity are considerably involved in the latter half of her work as well. As each shape is not properly located yet, the degree of involvement is rather deeper than in the first half. Shapes that have gone through the time-consuming combination process step by step finally make up the whole in the form of a circle or a square. In case of installation work, it turns out a dynamic sculpture that opens up space both in horizontal and vertical way and that engraves patterns and rhythm on space. How can artist Jang In-Hee ultimately understand these three-dimensional forms? I want to call it a formative structure to relieve ¡®rhythm of time and paradox in moment.¡¯ It is because the final form keeps possibility of similarity and difference in parts; homogeneity and heterogeneity; independence and connectivity and; division and integration all together. In terms of contents, it is not different from the state of living potential which Schiller called ¡®aesthetic sentiment (Stimmung).¡¯ It is a shape of living life that positively embraces every sense and form in life; emotions and thinking and; consonance and dissonance.
Ha Seon-Gyu | Art Critic, Aesthetics | Hongik University
Miyuki Yokomizo has worked as a sculptor and has been particular about time, space and light, excelling at installations. However, at this time, what she tackles is a two-dimensional work. Although two-dimensional artwork is generally thought to be a painting of sorts, Yokomizo declares that hers is a sculpture. Even though it is a two-dimensional work, it is one of matter; a painting created by this method of making sculptures will be a sculpture. In the case of Yokomizo, it is rather an act of accumulation; of stacking up rather than of painting. It is the point where countless horizontal and vertical lines intersect. A work with colored lines overlapping each other, forming a mesh surface that contains time and creates new space. On its surface, there is a feeling of trembling air. At first glance, the surface seems ascetic, but when you see it from a short distance, rises of splashing paints reveal themselves and the surface becomes expressive. The impression of the work changes, depending on the long or short span of distance between the viewer and the work. Putting oil paint on a single thread and hand-flicking that thread fixes the paint on a support, such as a canvas or paper. The thread shows the horizontal and vertical, the warp and weft, and the painting is knitted almost such as in the process of hand-woven fabric. On the surface, marked with traces of time and action, there are surprising numbers of accumulated lines. The act of just flicking the thread is reminiscent of the act of a nun. When that act and her own physicality overlap each other and respond, time of nothingness spreads and wraps her. It is neither fixing the image, nor drawing. It is neither using the brush, nor touching the screen. The traces of the action, called ¡±dialogue with nothingness¡±, are formed by accumulating an enormous amount of time, which eventually becomes the artwork. Indeed: it is her breath. In her artwork, there is a strength which prevents others from intervening into her own world. Firmly rooted in the earth, decidedly at her standing position and being ready not to be shaken. On the other hand, it can be said that her own deep psychological world, which was unconsciously created, sprouts out. It is the sculptural painting world of Miyuki yokomizo, confined by its materiality and time in the space of painting, which develops illusion.
Sangsun Bae¡¯s oeuvre is full of dormant possibilities, ostensibly hard to fathom but from which hidden things might emerge when they are stirred. Only the axis of time might be able to bring a change to the relationship between potentiality and reality. Forms drawn on the black velvet background using white gesso cannot be evident at the outset. Only after innumerable strokes are executed can degrees of light and dark be distinguished. The artist applies such opaqueness to our lives and art alike. There is the will of light that intends to expose itself by defeating the resistance of time. On the other hand, there is also the antagonism of darkness that wants to cover all actions with inaction and death.
Eva Heller wrote in her book How Colors Affect Your Mind and Your Feelings (Wie Farben auf Gefühl und Verstand wirken) that the darkest black is one that is seen in black velvet and deeper black is seen in outer space where no light exists. The velvet Bae chose as the key medium for her work rather than canvas or paper makes an ideal background in relation to light, like the dramatic action of untying or cutting off knots. The artist¡¯s brushstrokes are countless gestures of interpretation that try to retrieve memories and meaning from the absolute black material. It is a natural connection, given that all life is destined to begin in the soil and return to it again. Painting, as a soundless medium, speaks in silence. An artwork that contains history is not only a living thing but carries the voices of beings that have vanished. As with nature and history, an artwork is also an old text that needs to be interpreted over and over again. Although this work, whose title was once used as the title of the exhibition ¡°Layers of Time,¡± employs an abstract language of high density, it attempts to contain history and stories.
The artist is not concerned with depicting separate incidents. Although it is hard for an abstract language to convey a narrative, the artist left traces of action equivalent to a narrative process by painting countless lines on a non-neutral surface like velvet. They are the traces of the nameless, which can be likened to the footprints left by earthly beings who lived finite lives. These traces are both on the road and off the road. Drawing-based artworks show that drawing is an extension of writing. A story that was written is layered with another story to be written, making it difficult to read the stories in the layers in a clear view. Therefore, it is no coincidence that shapes resembling broken symbols are seemingly drifting on the canvas when seen from a distance. When the surface of an artwork with high density is enlarged and its surface is not blurred, the work seems to lead a life of its own. However, when it is seen at a different dimension, there happens to a repetition occurring over time. Viewed from far away, the history of humans does not differ greatly from that of nature. There may or may not be the meaning of life.
Nevertheless, art deals with a relatively longer time span that includes death. Cyclical worldviews, rather than apocalyptic ones in which everything comes to an end, give some comfort. The abstraction pursued by Bae is an alternative language that involves more realities by abridging the reality, not by excluding it. The dark background is apocalyptic. However, that is not an end but another foundation for life. Just as there is no significant difference between drawing and erasing, disappearing dots and lines are disappearing and emerging at the same time. Feedback is immediately made within vortex-like currents. The artist accelerates time through her work. The lines with the regularly curved sides, which cover the entire surface, are reminiscent of stirring forces. Human civilizations have advanced to achieve life where predictabilities rise but control of fate is diminished. However, civilizations are subject to the increasing risk of disorder as much as social norms are at work. Traces of beings sometimes resemble certain signs. Sangsun Bae focuses on showing the transformative process of signs rather than their fixed forms. For this reason, the signs are not static in her work. They reveal circumstances before or after things become signs. They do not refer to a meaning, but imply a spot where a meaning is formed and ceases to exist.
Reaping of aesthetics – attachment to Lee You Mee¡¯s new works
Seungmi Baik | Art Critic
The wind in Jeju peeled off a layer of skin of artist Lee You Mee. The verbal sentiments which she has been long digging into without putting them down and the concrete forms unraveled in children¡¯s view now and done delicately in terms of pathology now, they do not matter to the artist any more. Through the layer peeled off the author reaped one thing greater and more important. Like a monk to utter an old topic through a long painful asceticism there intensely remained plain and meditative essence itself in her works.
A series of figures which began in earnest since 2003 were materialized by means of paper bamboo made of used hanji for calligraphy later on and they were the unique meditative works of the artist who could be identified as firm entity like a knot. In particular they exposed scenes of various layers which characters keep to light and shade of ink stick that came naturally during making materials. Figures appearing with a black dog, who are other selves of the author, a small being who should be cared carefully like a baby just born out, imperfect forms of human being. They are also those works which are created by condensed aspect of pure souls easy to be hurt and modern people undermined by the loneliness and depress followed after all the hardship as well as distracting thoughts. The works in that time featured various stories and imagination which made spectators reminded of their own history. Even tiny things caused by the inner power of the artist who has been long investigating property of things and factors surrounding characters are arranged painstakingly and deliberately as well with the reason why they should exist in the works. Through all of them the artist and spectators sharing their experiences which are different each other developed a space for communication and interpretation.
What is interesting is solidity felt like stone statue relief. Somehow it can be imagined that this work might be the same as that of a stonemason to chisel and break basalt. The forms of torso standing by itself in this exhibition looks meditative and even holy like the incomplete Recumbent Buddha of Unjusa Temple, where the artist must have been intentionally long time before.
As the meditative part of the characters is solely represented in the works this time, their structure from the secular to the holy is more expanded than before. Whereas that of reminds of the appearance of plain Buddha like the early statue of the Buddha, the work of gives such tranquil but desolate emotion as seeing the statue of Jesus Christ hung over the cross. Both are the forms of human being but they are not specified ones and show abstractness of the artist¡¯s elaboration to try to pursue the essence. How will it be difficult to throw away instead of keeping, and to put down instead of holding? This is why we expect what will be the next step of artist, Lee You Mee, who throws away resolutely what should be thrown away with holding what should be held, who gets to reap the harvest finally through the wind in Jeju.
1968 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1994 BFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Fellowship of Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Arts, The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
2001 Fellow Artist, International Research Center for The Arts, Japan
2019 Untitled, Art Office Ozasa, Kyoto, Japan
2019 invisibility, MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Crossing points: A Scene of Light, Marueido Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Crossing points: Weaving Cosmos with Strings, Gallery Rin, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Crossing points: Red Cage, Art Office Ozasa, Kyoto, Japan
2018 INVISIBLE SHAPE, Art Issue Projects, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 MIYUKI YOKOMIZO, Noblesse Collection, Seoul, Korea
2017 synchronicity, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angels, U.S.A
2017 Light of Box/GRID, Operation Table, Fukuoka, Japan
2017 accumulation・, Gallery Rin, Tokyo, Japan
2016 accumulation・, Art Office Ozasa, Kyoto, Japan
2015 dwell, ozasahayashi, Kyoto, Japan
2015 in red, gallery 77, Tokyo, Japan
2005~ ¡¶now on world tour¡·¡°Passage to the Future:Art form a New Generation in Japan¡±
2019 Gampuku, Marueido Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Bae Sang-Sun and Miyuki Yokomizo: Circle of Life, Lee&Bae, Busan, Korea
2018 DIFFUSION, MARUEIDO JAPAN
2017 quintet ¥², Sonpo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Japan
2015 floating figure, ozasahayashi_project, Kyoto, Japan
2015 Forest of Exponentials, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angels, U.S.A
2015 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, ozasahayashi_kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2013 FACE 2013, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013 KYOTO STUDIO, @KCUA, Kyoto City Unversity of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2013 KYOTO OPEN STUDIO 2013, A.S.K, Kyoto, Japan
2012 Rokko Meets Art 2012, Rokko Hotel, Kobe, Japan
2012 KYOTO OPEN STUDIO 2012, A.S.K, Kyoto, Japan
2011 KYOTO APERTO 2011, A.S.K, Kyoto, Japan
2011 multiple, prinz, Kyoto ¡°A flower and dragon on the operating table¡±, Operation Table, Fukuoka, Japan
2010 Explore, Tama University of Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Art Miami, The Art Miami Pavilion, Miami, USA
2021 Daegu Art Fair, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
2021 KIAF SEOUL, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2020 ART BUSAN & design, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2020 KIAF Art Seoul Online Viewing Room
2020 KIAF Art Seoul Offline Show
2017 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angels)
2007 Nomura Foudation
2005 International Research Center for the Arts
2004 Chateau De La Napoule, France Aomori Comtemporary Art Center, Aomori
2003 Taipei Artists Villagem Taipei, Taiwan
2001 The Agency for Cultural Affairs Snug Habor Cultural Center, NY USA
2016 with time, Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto, Kyoto
2014 invisibility 2014, SHIMADAZU, Kyoto, Kyoto
2014 Weave words, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Kyoto, Kyoto
2012 invisibility 2012, THE PALACE HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo
2011 Rain Drop, Domain, YAU TONG ESTATE, Yau Tong, Hong Kong
2009 Spatio Temporal, SkyperfecTV! Media Center Tokyo, Tokyo
2006 Raining, Azabu Daiichi Mansions, Tokyo
2005 Raining-Milky way, Kansai Medical University Hirakata Hospital, Osaka
2004 Please wash away, Japan Foundation
Youmee Lee
1969 Born in Seoul, Korea
1993 B.F.A Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
1996 M.F.A The Graduate school Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
2019. Anyone, Gallery2ndavenue, Seoul, Korea
2018. Nonetheless, Gallerysein, Seoul, Korea
2018. Local Network Exchange Exhbition-Same Dreams, Different Places, Jeju museum of Contemporary Art Jeju, Korea
2017. Indivisibility, Rundgallery, Seoul, Korea
2015. While the wind rises, Haenyeo Museum, Jeju, Korea
2010. For all that, Gallery Banditrazos, Seoul, Korea
2016 E19782016-Art &People from Her Years, Leyoung Contemporary Art Museum, Kyonggi-do, Korea
2015 Urban Eco – 3rd Vornado Art Fan Show, Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2015 Fairy tales for adults, DTC Gallery Daejeon, Korea
2014 ZIPPO MUSEUM open Anniversary Exhibition, ZIPPO Museum, Jeju, Korea
2013 Paju Heyri Spring Festival Slow Art, Gomagwon, Kyonggi-do, Korea
2013 Leejungseop Art Museum Residency Exhibition, Leejungseop Art Museum, Jeju, Korea
2012 Thinking map, Beyond the mind, Leejungseop Art Museum, Jeju, Korea
2012 10 Curators & 10 Futures, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 Hand made pottery Story, Leejungseop Art Museum, Jeju, Korea
2011 Inner Landscape, Gallerydooin, Seoul, Korea
2011 Lee You Mee&IM SUN-IY - Methodology of Self-Discovery, Gallery LEE&BAE, Busan, Korea
2011 Opening Fever, Gana Art edition, Seoul, Korea
2010 Merry Christmas- Picture of the world, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 My Room Our Atelier, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 Human-Nature-Healing, Pocheon Art Valley, Kyonggi-do, Korea
2010 The Horizon Exhibition on Contemporary Arts of Korea, Gallery Face, Seoul, Korea
2021 Art Miami, The Art Miami Pavilion, Miami, USA
2021 Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2021 KIAF SEOUL, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2021 Art Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2020 Abu Dhabi Art 2020 Virtual Art Fair
2018 Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2012 ST-Art 2012 Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
2012 Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2012 Bali VAF, Bali, Indonesia
2011 Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2010 Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong
2012 Leejungseop Art Museum Artists Residency Program, Jeju, Korea
2010 CITE' INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS, Paris, France
2008~2010 Gana art Jangheung Atelier, Kyonggi-do, Korea
Inhee Jang
1979 Born in Seoul, Korea
2003 The School of Art Institute of Chicago BFA
2006 Hongik University, MFA
2016 Hongik Universtiy, Ph. D. candidate
2021 The shape of tim¡¯, ¡®BHAK gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 The Organic moment, INSA Art Center, Seoul , Korea
2020 The Forgotten moments, Gallery Dor, Seoul,, Korea
2020 The Shadow of moment, Gallery The FLUX, Seoul, Korea
2019 Inhee Jang, Seojeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2019 Encroached Moments, CICA Museum, Kimpo, Korea
2018 Dispersed moments, Yo gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 The Debris of Time, Hanmi gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 And then what remains, Art house, Cheolam Coal Mine historical village, Kangwon-do, Korea
2017 The wave of moment, Gallery DOS, Seoul, Korea
2016 Stereoscopic moment, KNOT gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Inhee Jang, Chunglim gallery, Kwang-myoung, Korea
2016 MO MENT,, CyArt space, Seoul, Korea
2021 Porous, BANDO Cultural Center, Kyunggi-do, Korea
2021 Porous art, Kind stone gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Show Con, Osan Art museum, Kyunggi-do, Korea
2020 Secret botanic garden, GS Caltex, Yeulmaru museum, Yeosu-si, Korea
2020 Cine de chef, Cine de Chef , Seoul, Korea
2020 Sensible thinking, H Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Kandinsky and media art, Sejong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2019 The world of quantum, Center for quantum nanoscience, Seoul, Korea
2019 Seodeamoon Yeogwan, Museum Village, Seoul, Korea
2019 Homophones, Gallery Richard, Paris, France
2018 Kim So Jang Laboratory ; Prequel, Lydia gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 Mumbai Biennale, Mumbai, India
2018 Gasong Art Prize exhibition ; Yu-rum-sang-saek, Gana Art Center, Korea
2018 Art 236, Place Camp Jeju, Jeju, Korea
2018 Gangwon International Biennale 2018, Gangneung-si, Korea
2018 Sensible thinking, H Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Envisage and confirm, Yo gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Gamma young artist competition, Beayanggawn, Seoul, Korea
2017 POP UP LAB, Deajeon Museum of Art, Deajeon, Korea
2017 White, KEPCO Art center, Seoul, Korea
2017 Beauty inside, Korean cultural center Osaka, Janpan
2017 Fantastic Voyage, HOMA, Seoul, Korea
2017 Art in Korea, China and Japan, Tsukuba Art Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
2017 Random specimen, ¡®Han-ul¡¯, Spain Korean cultural center, Madrid, Spain
2017 prologue, Hanmi gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Golden time, Shinsegae gallery, Incheon, Korea
2017 Between, Sophis gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 GAS 2016; Color blindness¡¯, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, National Science museum, Busan, Korea
2016 Shining moments, Shinsegae gallery, Gwangju, Korea
2016 Joyful corridor, Seo-boo space, Seoul Western District Court, Seoul, Korea
2016 LJA Douze Lee JingAh gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Air Bridge Public diplomacy program, Thimbu, Bhutan
2016 Coevolution, Choi Jung Ah gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Dance of Time, gallery Gabi, Seoul, Korea
2016 play & transference, Gallery O, Seoul, Korea
2016 The Beginning of anxiety, Space Noon, Soowon, Korea
2016 White, KEPCO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2016 Multiplication of cells, TOON gallery, Chuncheon, Korea
2016 Draw the dream, Ilho gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Playground, SODA Museum, Hwa-Sung, Korea
2015 Cell to life; relation of cells, relay show, Artspace J, Bun-Dang, Korea
2015 Pause &, 2-person show, Choi Jung Ah gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Raw regard, Choi Jung Ah gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 consilience, SEDEC gallery, Seou, Korea
2015 Eu-gi-yang-yang; elation, Pop Shop, Seoul, Korea
2014 Talking about color. Kyung-dong Jade, Busan, Korea
2013 Hi Seoul Festival, City Hall, Seoul, Korea
2012 Installation art contest for Lake Chung-ju, Chung-ju, Korea
2012 Murijun, Hongik University MOMA, Seoul, Korea
2012 Korea-Bangladesh interchange show, Bangladesh
2010 O-sek-chan-ran, Hi Seoul Festival, Cheonggye creek, Seoul, Korea
2010 what does digital art mean to you?, Sang-am DMC square, Seoul, Korea
Sangsun Bae
1971 Born in Hwasun, Korea
2008 PhD Candidate, Kyoto City University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2003 The Royal College of Art (Scholarship), London, UK
2002 MA Fine Art, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1997 BA (Ed), Sung Kyun Kwan University of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Layers of time, Lee & Bae, Busan, South Korea
2019 Moon-bow, Kyotography KG+, Kyoto, Japan
2017 Repeat & Repeat, Sfera Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
2017 International artist's Solo Exhibition, CIGE, Beijing, China
2014 Over& Over, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2014 Line's Echo, Ujong Museum of Art, South Korea
2013 Line's Echo, Ujong Museum of Art, South Korea
2012 Broken Knot, Gallery Dam, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Gordian Knot, Imura art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Broken Knot, Gallery Dam, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Busan : It exists now as it was then, Busan Cultural Foundation & F1963, Busan, Korea
2016 Daejeon research project A final show, Daejeon, Korea
2016 DMZ project exhibition, Gangwon-do, Korea
2015 Daejeon research project A final show, Daejeon, South Korea
2015 DMZ project exhibition, Gangwon-do, South Korea
2014 DMZ project exhibition, Gangwon-do, South Korea
2014 Dividing Line, Connecting Line, Collaboration with Michael Whittle, Zuian-an, Kyoto, Japan
2013 Dividing Line, Connecting Line, Collaboration with Michael Whittle, Zuian-an, Kyoto, Japan
2013 Gift, - 5Women artists group show Sfera exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
2012 Secret Garden exhibition of abstract artists 31, Ujong Museum, Korea
2012 Asian Artists exchange exhibition, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India
2011 Asian Artists exchange exhibition, Kyoto City University of the Arts Gallery, @KCUA Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2010 Flatland, a romance in many dimensions, APT gallery, London, UK
2019 KYOTOGRAPHIE¡ºKG£«AWARD 2019¡»Seleted Kyoto Japan
2017 Hang Chang-Woo Tetsu Cultural Foundation grant-in-aid winner
2014 Artist Residency, Kyoto Art Center
2008 Shinsegae Gallery Prize, Gwangju
2005 Plein Air Workshop Scholarship, Art Association of Germany and Japan
The Allen Thomas jnr Collection, USA
The Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art (Art-Bank), Korea
The Akino Fuku Museum, Japan
The Ujong Museum, Korea
The Kim Chongyung Sculpture Museum, Korea
The International Suzuki Foundation, Japan