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Surroundings IN & OUT 1.19 ~ 2.2, 2007 We are living in a space, which a territory of individualism has expanded and a space that is repeated and habitual that easily makes a meaningless world. In other words, the real world that we know is simplified and exists as a familiar routine, which paralyze our perception. 'Surroundings: In & Out' is a group exhibition of eight young Korean artists that create and cogitate the surrounded space with a special point of view. They change the tedious space by dismantling it, or mixture it with wit and cleverness or by adding a critical point of view to the sensible interior space. One individual space starts from objects such as a chair, desk and includes the space from a building outside, a city landscape and the outside world of nature. The same routine and repeated space is originative by their perspectives and brings a dazzling effect that presents a massive fantasy world. The meaning of space and objects is reinterpreted by Bo Young Jeong, Kang Won Lee, Dong Won Shin and some artists depicts the standardize space in our memories that inference from a contrary character such as Sung Roc Choi, Myung Jin Song and artists such as Taek Lim and Jee Hye Kim reinterprets traditional painting with contemporary media forming a refined modern space. Moreover, Curie Jung uses various objects that are not related with each other. Kang Won Lee borrows a shape from an object and creates it into a solid lump with one color. The works are installed in one line; naturally lose its characteristic meaning by transforming different images as a forest or a small village. In
Curie Jung art works, there is no gravity existing, birds burst out from the cage
and objects such as people, trees and airplanes are floating all over the canvas.
They coexist in the same space but the individuals are all in different sizes.
The objects that are gathered together cannot find anything related with each
other. Myung Jin Song's garden is not the immense nature that human exists in
but rather an artificial land, which human destroys and creates. Originally by
disregarding the ecosystem, the garden is cut and seems like an unfamiliar place.
Dong Won Shin's ceramic cups and vases are precariously slanted and attached on
the walls, refusing to be located into a typical three-dimensional space. As she
has moved to and from different genres, she absorbs the specific conditions of
each discipline from materials to language and conceptualizes it into work. The
landscape of Taek Lim, is a mysterious space by first he creates an installation
by using various materials such as cotton for clouds and also small models of
people, animals and nature. He sometimes takes pictures of viewers and adds them
in his photography. Jee Hye Kim depicts Korean traditional Minhwa with contemporary
objects and forms a modern genre painting. Bo Young Jeong draws an object inside
a dark dreary concrete building, and by the contrast with the light reflecting
it; it reveals significance to one another. Sung Roc Choi use materials as plastic
figures to create features of animals such as lion and bat, which overlaps the
white space that could be seen as a cave or zoo.
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