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Mental Landscapes
by Gallery Dam
Location: Gallery Dam
Artist(s): YIYUNHONG
Date: 22 Oct - 31 Oct 2014

This one person exhibition is my first show in Korea – the country where I was born and raised. It exhibits my drawings and paintings in the early 90's that had initiated my deep interest in the mental landscapes and subsequent oil paintings in 2004, and 2014 in the similar context. I try to review my long-lasting interest and it's developments with about 10 year interval through this exhibition. The landscape arrangements in my works took place in my mind and were explored in abstract fashion. However, they are neither just formal nor transcendental. They are private and specific because they contain the conflicts and longings condensed by my psyche in everyday life and also, they are my inner windows towards a fictional world I've never reached.

Most of the forms in my works assume biomorphic characteristics. Being biomorphic means being alive to me and are taken as metaphors for unspecified individuals as humans in general. They exist in the abstract expressionist pictorial depth not in the perspective space based on the foreground and the background of representational landscape. I did not select nor imagine any specific forms for my works beforehand. They were born in the process of my working as an improvised and spontaneous flow of my mind and imagination. To me, the process of drawing or painting is as important as the completed result as an artwork. Therefore, the imageries in my works were mostly encountered and chosen in the process of working, and I tried to reveal them in my works holding a delicate tension and balance between a clue of representative image and abstract manipulation.

I often enjoy the vivid primary colors and the gestural brushstrokes with the strong contrast between light and darkness in my works. Particularly the brushstrokes embedded on the canvas or paper reflect the constant interplay between two physical beings - the surface and my body. Also, I find my other interest in the physical aspect of my work as a ground where materiality, action and time can be recorded simultaneously. Like exposed strata, there remains the layered paint on the surface – witness to the entire process of working and the time spent out of my life for the work. Thus, Materiality is one of the most meaningful elements in my labor for the arts.

 

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