Gallery Artside presents Myung-Jo Jeong's art works. What he depicts through women's back is a beauty itself. Women without their faces wearing in Hanbok, traditional Korean costume, makes the viewers focus on its original beauty. Especailly, Hanbok has had a level of splendor in terms of social status. Also, hair style and accessories are also an important part. In this exhibition, the artist expresses his interest in accessories. This is not just ornament for decoration but to reveal anonymous women's interests in own beauty.

While background of women in previous works included descriptive meaning, one in this exhibition is expressed with the Four Gracious Plants. It was a symbol of male power culture but as using such symbol in background, the artist emphasizes a beauty of woman in contrast with that.

Women facing away has a freedom from all the communications and woman as an object of desire. There is only a beauty of decorative Hanbok and woman herself left. And through a deep space she is staring at can make audiences imagine something beyond visible objects.

The artist looks at the object itself minutely and explores a purpose of it. Unlike hyper-realism, the artist leaves a brush mark for depicting so that it includes emotional formativeness the painting has.
- Dae Sik Lim, Curator 

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The Paradox of Beauty #13-04
© Myuoung-Jo Jeong
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Artside