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(Un)familiar Landscape
by Gallery em
Location: Gallery em
Artist(s): Siwoo LEE
Date: 6 Sep - 6 Oct 2012

Gallery Em delightfully announces Siwoo Lee's second solo exhibition '(UN)FAMILIAR LANDSCAPE' from 6 September to 6 October. Comparing to his previous works that focused on a person to show one's various identities in cyber and real space, he expands his interests into object, organism and landscape. In his previous works, he used celebrities with transforming into online avatars, or himself as presenting randomly in ordinary space, such as cafe or stadium. It tells that personal identity is produced aggregatively by society, but he wanted to express one's aim to establish own identity through avatar in his painting.  
As mentioned above, material is expanded, so that it maximizes the artist's conviction. Becuase he believes that one's identity is the product of society and culture, wants to show personal conflict from external factors. Again, as these factors and identity are introduced in one space, people can find various differences at a look. Also, person, object, and territory are arranged in a row, and showed regardless of order and relations. 'Territory' means arbitrary area people fixed, and has liquidity in terms of history. There is difference between those factors but no valuation. The artists just wanted to reveal the relationship between the society and individual. 
He used various painting techniques, such as dripping, sprinkling paint, pointage and gradation, to experiment difference between these techniques. Unfamiliar but familiar landscape he made has no any particular meaning, so audiences can produce their own landscape in his artworks. 

 

 

 

 

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