Exhibition Information

2020, [출처] 수애뇨 339 홈페이지 77 x 107cm

2020, [출처] 수애뇨 339 홈페이지 53 x 38cm

2020, [출처] 수애뇨 339 홈페이지 50 x 38cm

2020, [출처] 수애뇨 339 홈페이지 50 x 38cm

			"In the end, dying of the disease of civilization will be the last of mankind." -R.W. Emerson

The last glacier in the Arctic began to melt and was told that ice would disappear in 2030. I imagine the end of mankind. If the polar bear disappears, and the penguin disappears, we'll eventually disappear.

While visiting the mountains of the country for plant exploration, we found that our flowers were disappearing. There are many plants that are being recklessly harvested, or that are being destroyed and wiped out or extinct.

Modern civilization destroyed nature and exchanged capital for life with endless greed.

While humans are digging and recklessly developing nature like tyrants on this land, the ecosystem is getting sick and dying. Climate change caused by global warming has caused frequent heat waves and floods, and the emergence of the Corona virus has forced the world to stop everything. It has become routine to start the day after the Corona crisis, checking the number of people infected and dying with the virus every morning.

to fade away – to have a wish

I searched on the Internet for the Greenland view of the Arctic, and the huge, high ice barrier in the glacier looked like a skyscraper. Watching the glaciers melt and collapse, I realized that life in the city could be intact when the North Pole was intact. When the glaciers disappear, our lives will slowly disappear.

The entire large wall in front of the gallery depicts the melting of the Arctic glaciers and collapsing as if the skyscrapers of the city were collapsing. This is our current bare face and precarious landscape painting, with glaciers and skyscrapers overlapping as one.

I would like to invite the audience to a drawing performance made of charcoal to share the process of painting in the same space from the beginning to the end of the drawing, and to share our story here, in the face of a new situation. I don't know how to get through this catastrophe.

the fading faces of obscurity

We are investigating and drawing endangered plants in our country. I paint it with earnest hope that the faces, which are beautiful and fragrant even though they are unknown, will not disappear.

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