Exhibition Information

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Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			The Scene Filled and Emptied
Seung Oh Shin (Director of Perigee Gallery)

JANG Jaerok works by basically drawing a lattice and then fills or empties each square one by one. The subject matter he has primarily adopted for his pictures is natural scenery or a digitalized artificial scene made for a computer game’s background. This subject matter is not immediately transferred to a picture but goes through a process of transformation depending on an arbitrary rule JANG has stipulated. The image he chose turns into a black-and-white image on a computer screen. This modified image is transferred to paper attached to the canvas after going through two phases. The form of an object is drawn in pale gray ink along its outline with no thought of grids. This rendition works as a sketch. An example is that thick ink coloring is employed if the sketch takes up a greater part of one square and the square remains empty if there are wider blank spaces. This seems to illustrate images by mechanically applying a binary system made up of 0s and 1s. The process of this seemingly intricate conversion is a methodology of great significance, and to discover why he adopts this method and its meaning is a measure of figuring out this exhibition.
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(Source = Perigee Gallery)