왕 열 展
' 신 무릉도원(武陵桃源)에 놀자 '
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인사아트센터 1F
2012. 7. 25(수) ▶ 2012. 7. 30(월)
Opening 2012. 7. 25(수) 18:00
서울시 종로구 관훈동 188 | T.02 - 736 - 1020
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신 무릉도원(武陵桃源)에 놀다
왕 열 王 烈
<신-무릉도원에 놀다 >전시의 소재들은 풍경과 같은 부류로 이해하기 쉽지만 그것은 외연적인 것이고, 내면에는 새와 자연을 통하여 도시 생활 속에서 살아가는 인간들의 고독과 동행 그리고 행복 등 다양한 희,노,애,락의 삶의 은유적 표현인 것이다. 여기서 ‘새’는 사람을 상징화시켜 의인화한 것이며, 그 배경의 자연들은 도시풍경인 것이다. 새는 외롭게 혼자 있기도 하고, 여러 마리가 나타나기도 하는데 인간의 다양한 삶의 모습이 함축되어 있는 것이다. 새와 말 그리고 파초는 자신을 포함한 모든 인간의 실존적인 모습이자, 자유로운 여행과 조용한 침묵속의 휴식을 즐기며 이상세계로 나아가고자 하는 의지의 반영이다.
자연과 산수를 묘사하면서 형태나 조형성에 앞서 정신과 사유를 우선에 두고 있다.
아득히 멀리선 무릉도원의 자연과 이를 관조하는 자아, 그리고 관람객의 관계적 설정은 옛 문인들이 그리던 산수화의 전형적인 심상이다.
인간의 삶이 내재하고 있는 곤궁과 실존적 고통들을 직시하는 한편 이를 낙관적 자세로 극복하고자 하는 의지를 담아내고자 하였다.
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Artist statement by Wang Yeul
An expression of red color in Korean is subtly different and diverse in the examples of artistic expressions such as red sea and red sky. In my painting, I allow a pair of white birds quietly flying in that red space. These birds, however, look trapped like a still-cut image rather than freely flying over in that space. In East Asian ink painting, a negative space, called ‘yeobaek' in Korean, is considered more importantly than a positive space. It is not a mere empty space but an essential space where actively engages the viewer for imagining their own meanings of painting and also contemplating about a painting. In my painting, the negative space painted in red color is used as an imaginative space in which the viewer feel a vitality of life from red color by making the most beautiful red color for my birds and the viewer. From some point I began to paint a bird and it was a metaphor for me. It further appears as a metaphor for modern people. I have been interested in capturing various feelings and emotions which modern people feel from their ordinary life through the expression of the elongated neck of birds. Some birds with the elongated neck in the empty space seem like singing a song with hope and happiness, but also seem like ourselves who are lonely in a rapidly changing modern society. In this perspective, the bird is a subject matter of my painting as well as a formal element for composition.
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The turning point I changed the subject matter of my painting from cityscape to bird happened after I met a friend of mine. I met him in one early summer night in the city of Chungjoo in Korea and we chat over night. I was impressed about his passion on birds and difficulties on his job. After that night, a bird appears in my painting and my painting has been reflected the images from the stories I heard from him like the example of wild geese that lives in group. When wild geese dies in travel, all other family members leave it alone in that spot, but only a partner geese stays around it for the rest of life. I wondered what kinds of messages I could provide the modern people with this sad but beautiful story since it is not obvious that human is not necessarily better than this bird. Images of birds have been expressed in various conditions and situations. For example, some bird’s neck is curved, which appears to be struggling. Some birds are flying with a long straight neck which metaphors a hope. Some birds are freely flying in air with their partners. Some birds that embrace necks look like loving each other. These different expressions symbolize the human beings living in the contemporary life. Their body gestures metaphor human emotions such as happiness, anger, and pleasure. In my painting, diverse forms of bird images are intermediate symbols that bridge human emotions that are eventually related with human conceptions reflected in nature.
In conclusion, bird is expressed in different ways and contains diverse meanings, such as dreaming and a hope. To human beings, flying symbols a freedom and a flying bird metaphors a free sprit to human. We all dream to fly in the sky without stress since there is no geographical boundary in the sky. There is no final destination to birds that always freely flying as they want. I wish that the viewer could receive positive messages for hope by dreaming of birds with the images imprinted in my painting. In a small space in my painting, I left a place for birds who wish to fly. I ultimately wish my painting becomes a little hope to the viewer that struggles in the modern life.
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홍익대학교 미술대학 동양화과 졸업 | 홍익대학교 대학원 동양화과 졸업 | 홍익대학교 대학원 미술학 박사 | 개인전 47회 (중국,일본,독일,스위스,미국,프랑스 등) | 동아미술제 동아미술상 수상(동아일보사) | 대한민국미술대전 특선 3회(국립현대미술관) | 대한민국미술대전 심사위원 역임 | 한국미술작가대상 (한국미술작가대상 운영위원회) | 단체전 420여회
작품소장 | 국립현대미술관 | 경기도미술관 | 대전시립미술관 | 미술은행 | 성남아트센터 | 성곡미술관 | 홍익대학교 현대미술관 | 고려대학교 박물관 | 워커힐 미술관 | 갤러리 상 | 한국해외홍보처 | 한국은행 | 동양그룹 | 경기도 박물관 | 한국종합예술학교 | 단국대학교 | 카톨릭대학교 | 채석강 유스호스텔 | 호텔프리마 | 천안시청 | 천안세무서 | 한남더힐 커뮤니센터
현재 | 단국대학교 예술대학 동양화과 교수
E-mail | why2002@dankook.ac.kr
Homepage | www.wangyeul.com
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