Exhibition Information

2021 (이미지 제공 = 원앤제이 갤러리) 각 116 x 81 cm

2021 (이미지 제공 = 원앤제이 갤러리) 80 x 84 cm

2021 (이미지 제공 = 원앤제이 갤러리) 70 x 50 cm

			July 29, ONE AND J. Gallery hosts Kichang Choi’s solo exhibition, The Spotless Mind.
The title is a quote from Alexander Pope’s poem, underlining a kind of innocence stemmed from the inexperience of love. The artist has been persisting his interest in the ways of which sentiments of unanticipated joy or happiness and love—the themes of his works—eventually influence individuals through their colligation with social and political beliefs. In this exhibition, Choi’s point of departure lies in his viewpoint on the fate and morality of art generated from the correlation of his attitude and faith towards art as an artist. The artist highlights time guarded by belief by placing monumental works of art history onto steel plates only to corrode, superimposing the past(history) with the future(continuous corrosion). The Rainbow Sequence (2021) series, which utilized the windows of the soon-to-be-gone Gwangju National Armed Force Hospital, and Cyclical Night (2021), yielded from a steel plate stained with spray prints during the time it spent leaning against the walls of Choi’s studio, both evoke the time preceding the works along with the space behind. The two works raise questions of how an era and art, art and artists, an artist and one’s attitude act on the rear side of the plates as well as their relations with the work itself. This exhibit displays thirty-one of his latest works and lasts until August 22.

(Source = ONE AND J. Gallery)