Oriental space and time immanent in the color and surface- painting as incomplete work

By Yum Chea Gab

Moo-Hyoung Kwon has strengthened his ideas on nature and painting. His wo|1<s are
materialized through three media such as two-dimensional painting, photograph and
video. Perhaps his work can be recognized as dose to minimalism. Repeated figures,
disapproval of optical illusion of pictorial space, simple and strict geometrical
0omposition,monoch lomatic color and etc.are the several elements for his works to be
regarded as a type of minimalism.

Huang Jingyuan - Gossip from Confucius City

In her new series of black and white figurative paintings, Jing Yuan Huang creates a set of detailed panel works that juxtapose western fashion female models with news and generic Chinese imagery drawn from photographs found on the internet. Produced through a painstaking process of high-realism rendering, the artist casts the models as active characters in Chinese society, with common scenes of daily life restaged. The works considers the means through which social norms are constructed by advertising and state media within the bureaucratic government apparatus. Within the tableaus, she creates oddly androgynous hybrids that reverse entrenched gender roles and provide challenging new narratives.