2012 GalleryGOLMOK 하반기 기획공모 선정작가
Hyon Gyon
이 세계의 화신(化身)
Fallen soul_194cmx162cm_acrylic aluminum leaf on canvas_2012
갤러리골목
space1
2012. 11. 17(토) ▶ 2012. 12. 2(일)
Opening : 2012. 11. 17(토) pm 5.
서울시 용산구 이태원동 34-23번지 | T.02-792-2960
I begin to walk_194 cmx162cm_acrylic japanese paper on canvas_2011
Statement
Hyon Gyon(박현경)
Somehow, I am attracted to sadness and pains derived from inscrutability, absurdity and contradiction that human beings face in their lifetimes, that is, emotions related to human unhappiness.
Failure of desires or will hurts the human mind resulting in paranoia or compulsive emotions. Interwoven emotions are accompanied by negative feelings including pain, anger, sadness and resentment, which have been regarded as ugly so that they are suppressed inside without being released.
These negative feelings are continuously repeated as we live and until we die. What I intend to do is to bring out those unexpressed negative feelings and suppressed negative energy, and convert, reduce, and purify them into any form. As a process for this aim, I have concentrated on Korean shamanism, one of traditional Korean cultures, and been influenced by it.
Korean shamanism or shamans have been considered as fearful and despised, they are still deeply rooted in our culture. In the past, they were deeply related to universal emotions of human beings like happiness, sadness, love and resentment.
For example, our ancestors used to face the reality and pray for better lives through the rituals of shamanism called “Gut; Exorcism”. Obsession over life, fear of the dark and desire for something that is not in one’s possession that are expressed in “Gut;Exorcism” are not ugly things. They are just struggling to have happy lives. Who on earth would want or choose an unhappy life? This is what corresponds with something that I am eager to express in my art.
Specifically, in “Gut; Exorcism”, we can notice some exaggerated parts, which seem even violent, and they transcend the ugliness, becoming very ironic and arousing laughter.
The moments of opposing forces of Yin and Yang, conversion of Yin to Yang, and explosion of suppressed negative energy are the pivotal aspects of my artworks. Even if they are ugly and hideous, we don’t have to beautify them.
The image of people living their lives and the emotions emerged within their lives have been the fundamental power.
The strange unidentifiable ghosts and monsters in my artworks, which are hard to say are of this world, are neither human, nor completed motifs.
It can be said that it is an arena where indescribable emotions, such as sadness, happiness and pleasure, are harmonized and collide with each other,where happiness and unhappiness, good and evil are swallowed up, and where generation and extinction of energy of different vectors are constantly repeated.
In front of natural disasters or terrible events caused by destiny, life and death that human beings cannot go against, art might be endlessly powerless. However, that would be the exact reason why the fundamental power of art is required.
It means that it requires surely acknowledging the reality, newly understanding the liveness, predicting the future, and passing on the skills that would help people to go through frustrations they face in life. Predicting the future where all creation revives when the sun rises. I would like to drag out the positive power by sending the message that the chaos and hardship in front of us is not a complete darkness where everything is over but a temporary darkness with a new possibility and potentials, as well as the time for regeneration. This is the eternal theme I pursue.
Flame_225cmx360cm_acrylic japanese paper on panel_2010
super blue_162cmx162cm_acrylic japanese on panel_2009
Chicken pox_180cmx180cm_satin on panel_2010
■ Hyon Gyon(박현경)
Born 1979 in Korea | Lives and works in Japan (Kyoto)
2011 | Completed ph D at Graduate school of Art, Kyoto city University of Arts | 2008 | Completed MA painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts | 2002 | Graduated from MokWon University , College of Fine Arts, Department of Western painting
Selected Solo Exhibitions | 2011 | New incubation3「On a Knife Edge」Kyoto Art Center/Kyoto,Japan(chie matsui×hyon gyon) | 2010 | 「Giragira」 g³ gallery／Tokyo,Japan | 「Tamahuri」 g³ gallery／Tokyo,Japan | 2009 | 「iyoiyo」 / Gallery EXIT / Hong Kong | 2008 | 「iyoiyo」 magical art room／ Tokyo,Japan | 2008 | TWS-Emerging 099 「awesome」 Tokyo Wonder site hongo / Tokyo,Japan | Tokyo Wonder wall/Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Selected Group Exhibitions | 2012 | Phantoms of Asia/ Asian Art Museum/ sanfrancisco /America | Transmit Program#3 「Mètis」／@KCUA／Kyoto,Japan | 2011 | TOKYO FRONTLINE/ 3331 Arts Chiyoda / Tokyo, Japan | 2010 | Tokyo Wonder wall The tenth anniversary / Museum of Contemporary, Japan | 2009 | WAKUWAKU JOBAN-KASHIWA PROJECT／TSCA kashiwa,Chiba, Japan | 「neoneo Part2[girl]」NeoneoGirls opening themselves Iwato/Takahashi | collection/Tokyo,Japan | 2009 | pica3 / Art Court Gallery/Osaka,Japan | 2008 | NEW BEGINNINGーThe show must go on！/ magical art room / Tokyo | 2007 | Worm hole episode7 / magical art room / Tokyo, Japan | Tokyo Wonder wall / Museum of Contemporary Tokyo,Japan | Hello,Chelsea 2007 /PS35gallery /N.Y. /America | CX展／caso／Osaka,Japan | Art award tokyo / Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery/Tokyo,Japan | brilliant works / art zone/ Kyoto,Japan | 2006 | Art Jam2006 / The Museum of Kyoto,Japan | art camp gallery /yamaguchi kunst-bau/ Osaka,Japan
Public Collections | Kyoto city University of Arts, Kyoto | Kyoto Bank, Kyoto | Takahashi Collection, Tokyo
Fellowship | 2012 Kyoto City Special Bounty of Art and Culture From April, 2012 to March, 2013 | 2006 Asao Kato international scholarship From April, 2006 to March, 2008
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