Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Kiche)

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Kiche)

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Kiche)

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Kiche)

			Transparent Window, Glass Table adopts “transparency” as the main keyword to look closer into each artist’s form and methodology. At the same time, “window” and “table” serve as the medium through which the artists’ perceptions and approach to the real world or art are visualized and brought to the surface through their works. In this sense, it is far from a sense of “transparency” in which an external object is reflected or depicted as it is. Rather, it is “abstraction” which Joan Mitchell explains, “I paint the landscapes outside the window, but I could never possibly copy that. I try to paint the remembered feelings of nature, which of course become transformed in my own languages. While I paint, I always paint with windows closed so I can’t see what’s outside.” The “window” that guides the exhibition is a passage that connects the inside and the outside and welcomes thoughts and emotions through its unique visual language. 

The four artists in this exhibition - Cai Ruei-Heng, Daniel Chen, Seoul Kim, and Yang-ha - choose the major foundation and form of their work, such as figurative, abstract, or semi-abstract painting, and pursues their unique methodologies by continuing their multifaceted approaches and experiments within the given framework. In this context, the canvas becomes a “workbench” that highlights the “uniqueness” that comes from their distinct choices in the specific form which replaces the conventions found in history of art with their characteristic visual language. In this space, artists uncover their emotions or contradictions found in the real world, and construct a visual language by performatively examining the conditions of painting themselves. 

(Source = Gallery Kiche)