Daegu Art Museum has carried forward the Y artist project in order to discover and nurture capable young artists with strong growth potential into leading artists in the domestic and overseas art scenes. Park Junghyun, one of the five artists chosen for the Y artist project in 2012, is the third artist to hold a solo show, following the exhibitions of Lee Wan and Lee Hyein.

Many people today try to divorce man from nature, seeking an abundant, convenient material life. Moreover, they do not consider why they consume so many articles for their more convenient, abundant life, taking it for granted. However, human progress cannot be achieved through consumption of materials, but is triggered by a constant consideration of and concern for the true nature of humans.

Excessive comfortableness can take tension so it also can take perspective on new things.
- Park Junghyun

Park Junghyun(1977- ) suggests that viewers enjoy deficiency over richness, inconvenience over convenience. That is, as richness and convenience have their own value, and we can make a step forward with deficiency and inconvenience, the artist intends to comment on the dialectic melding of diverse values in our lives. Table Park released in 2008 was the first work encapsulating this idea. Since then the artist has presented diverse works pertaining to anti-value.

Comfortable-Un-comfortable including his new works are composed and displayed at the Daegu Art Museum's Gallery 4 and 5 in his solo show comfortable-Un-comfortable. The exhibition displaying a dialectic relation between convenience and inconvenience will furnish viewers with an opportunity to rethink what they have considered natural conditions of our lives.

*image (left)
the Bridge, 2013
wood, variable size
courtesy of the artist and Daegu Art Museum