Ju, Tae Seok

Ju Tae-Seok, who describe surrounding daily state such as tree and forest realistically, mainly deals with incidental moments in everyday life. The artist intended to the realism when abstraction art controlled in 70's who represents one of the realism artist. The artist familiar with viewers through his 27 solo-exhibition and numerous group exhibition.

The artist's series entitled Rail-Road show the path that he has come along. These elaborate and seemingly commonplace paintings became the model of Hyper-realistic paintings up until the mid-eighties. He had a turning point around 1989 when he had gone through the eighties, tense with split debates on formalism and engaged realism. His recent series Nature-Image indicates this shift. It signifies the change not only his method or subject but also in his attitude.
Ju tae Suk does not simplify the object with a tedious scheme, but portrays the nature of artwork with a boundaryof delicate description and loose outlines. In other words, the mixture of concrete concepts and abstract feature draws near to the nature of substance. The two contrary images reveal the nature's visual sensibility and nature epically. The critic, Yoo Jae Gil, states " The nature images' which has been experienced through sympathetic and correspondence of nature is shown as a respondenceof a scene with reality, illusion and material mentality.

Ju tae-seok's solo exhibition will bring a chance to take a look at the Korean hyper-realism as well as to see the trees, grasses, and leaves that we pass unintentionally in our everyday life.