Exhibition Information

(제공=에브리데이몬데이)

(제공=에브리데이몬데이)

(제공=에브리데이몬데이)

(제공=에브리데이몬데이)

			
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Everyday Mooonday Gallery welcomes you to the exhibition Couple Look by Raymond Lemstra and Jang Koal. The expression ‘couple look’ is a commonly used Konglish word (an English loanword appropriated into Korean) that is used to describe the phenomena of couples wearing matching outfits. Inherent to this expression is the idea of differences becoming one, and in a similar frame of mind this exhibition can be viewed as two artists finding harmony through, on the one hand subdued and intricate graphite drawings, and on the other lively and colourful paintings. With both artists having a strong and unique visual language, this selection of works simultaneously represents the artist individually, as well as creates a new narrative between the two bodies of work.

For this shared exhibition, Lemstra created ten portrait drawings depicting fictional characters in which actual, real-life traits intertwine with more abstracted features. These works are a continuation on his Personnage Fictionnel series. For several years the artist has been collecting black and white portrait photography that he uses as ‘sparks’ to start drawing. Rather than aim for likeness, these photographs merely function as an impulse to explore a specific harmony between figuration and abstraction. A prominent component in this playful investigation is observing the human urge to recognize life visually and construct surreal and uncanny relationships between the two disparate worlds.

Jang Koal’s artistic practice focusses mainly on painting, and in this exhibition she invites us into an especially colourful world filled with butterflies, flowers, cats and women; scenes shrouded in a mist of mystery and nature’s visual sudectiveness. The untranslatable emotions radiating from the female figures in Koal’s paintings provoke a feeling of curiosity in the viewer. Peaceful moments indicate potential twists and a turn of events. Koal focusses on the tranquillity before the chaos unavoidably reinstates itself, and by framing this glimpse she creates an imaginary ‘Valhalla’.



Everyday Mooonday
eunjin Jung