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Chung Eun-Mo April 11 - April 25, 2001 Gallery Ihn is pleased to present "Paintings 1991-2000" of Chung Eun-Mo. For this exhibition introducing her works for the first time in Korea, she has chosen about 25 paintings from the past ten years broadly representing her work. Paintings of Chung Eun-Mo invariably have a strong architectonic space. To all intents and purposed they are abstract, but they evoke real spaces through their combination of geometric shapes and the use of a distinctly atmospheric palette. In this exhibition, there are earlier shaped-canvas paintings as well as standard rectangular paintings. The shaped canvas tends to engage the surrounding walls more actively as extensions of the pictorial space. And in the standard rectangular paintings, the painter continues to explore the evocation of inhabited space through abstract means. In addition, Chung Eun-Mo has a remarkable feeling for light, which cannot be localized but impregnates her paintings as a whole. But in spite of her sheer taste and restraint, and the contemplative element which is so strong, there is nothing pallid or formalistic about these pictures; they are vibrant with a sense of the present and engage actively, though sensitively, with the world we move in and the air we breathe. Chung Eun-Mo was born in Seoul. Having received her earlier educations in Korea, she went to USA in the mid 1960's to continue her studies. She studied at the School of Art and Design in Rochester Institute of Technology and at the Graduate School of Art and Architecture in Pratt Institute in New York. She moved to Italy in the late 1980's and currently lives in Umbria. She has exhibited widely since the 1980's both in America and in Europe. Some of her museum exhibitions include Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in 1992 and Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and 1997. She has held solo exhibitions regularly at Primo Piano Gallery in Rome since 1990 and at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin since 1994, as well at a number of other galleries in Ireland, Italy and Germany.
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