Cheon, Kwang-Yeop : SYMPTOMS

 Kwang-Yeop Cheon's work is known for its countless dots and splendid colors' play. He makes skins of painting by putting dots which are digged out with a knife and layers of pure-acrylic.

 In this exhibition, Cheon shows "Shadow" series which look like they have some kinds of figure under the skin of painting because of its disunited locations of dots, freely united and scattered, and presents newly "Curves" series which are done on the nude photos. "Shadow" works have deeper cubic effect and roughness of surface due to their colors' change and dots' grouping and scattering, so they look like animal's peeled skin. Thus, shadow works arise viewers' illusion that some kind of vague figure is hidden and moving under the painting's surface.

 It wouldn't be exaggerated to say that "curves" series, punched on nude photos of photographer Kim, Joong-Man, shows Cheon's sexual fantasy(peep) that he tries to represent about sex through his works. His works don't simply address eroticism by revealing woman's nude figure, but exposure the sex as well as fetishism from the release of spirit when thinking about his hard working-process. Nude images behind punched dots reveal human's basic nature by peeping through dots and express the truth which has been hidden by his works' neatness and strictness. Thus, it can be relatively guessed that those vague figures that are seen in shadow works can be also woman's image. In other words, the scene after cleaning layers of limitless dots can be concluded as this curves series. With its beautiful colors' play and tiny dots that make people dizzy, Cheon's works draw viewers' sense of touching and human's basic natures.