Exhibition Information

Exhibition Work

Exhibition Work

Exhibition Work

			The MIMESIS AP is an artist project of the Mimesis Art Museum, which selects and introduces artists who build a provocative working world while agonizing over the artist’s social role. The third exhibition, <MIMESIS AP3: Picturesque City>, selected Kwon Young-sung, Kim Hyo-sook and Choi Eun-jung to express the city from the perspective of PicturerescPicturesque, which represents the aesthetic relationship between man and nature. They have worked on topics such as <relationship graph>, <Valid city> and <Scenery of Anonymous>, which borrows different materials in a motif to express space, dissolves into lines that intertwine the concepts of fantasy, desire, nonmaterials and institutions, or portray them as clearly organized urban landscapes. The exhibition takes note of the pictorial expressions of the three writers who create a world of processing that goes against real-life reenactment, making us look at and understand all the spaces surrounding us from a different perspective.

Kwon Young Sung
Kwon has drawn maps in the beginning. It is not a real map, but a fictional map of things around it. Through the process of reconstructing, simplifying and working a complex world in the context of <The Symbol of Things물의, the author creates another landscape painting that is different from the landscape of reality. The author's interest in symbols has recently shifted from maps to graphs. When Kwon is working on a map, he says he draws still life, and when he is working on a graph, he is drawing landscapes. This is interpreted as the world the writer sees expanding from object to space, feeling and expressing more. Kwon appears to be materially digitizing what is non-material, but the landscape returned to figures contains the writer’s emotions. The more emotional part of this mathematical work is the title of the work. <Relational graph of starlight, moonlight and artificial light, 2013>, Balcony and evening sunset relationship graph, 2017> <Relational graph of curved uphill and buildings, 2019>. They all call it relationship grapples, but the author’s lyricism can be felt in the landscape where light and height are observed. The colors of the work are also more colorful than the colorless near feeling shown in the traditional map work, and the types and patterns that were expressed on the map are extended through graph landscapes.

Kim Hyo-sook Kim Hyun-Suk
Kim Hyo-sook’s work is also regarded as an urban landscape with complexities that describe the structures of a wealthy city as superimposed organic spaces and layered multiple frames. A closer look at the work looks more like a space full of non-materials. The author said, "There is no room in the world in fact," which begs a different perspective on his work. It is often said that the space represented by the lifeless, man-made and wealthy building materials, with the cap firmly pressed, began with the author’s childhood experiences of the decaying buildings. But the author’s statement that the world in which we live is filled with things that we cannot feel visually, and that the goal is to express these worlds in the closest proximity, gives us a glimpse of the author’s own secret intention to express something more abstract. 방Paranbang, 2018> is Kim Hyo-sook’s signature work, and the author seeks out human desire expressed intentionally in blue. The work is completed through more than ten sketches, using detailed lines and colors on a tightly stacked image. This process of work makes us feel our presence in the city filled with stifling air in a space filled with something.

Choi Eun Jung Choi Eun Jeong
Choi's work is an unrealistic artificial landscape disguised as a reenactment of reality. At first glance, trees and plants, which are also like urban design, work out with an anonymous landscape that blends with colorful structures. In response, the author said, "The space I make up on the screen is neither the space we live in nor the landscape we see from afar." The dynamic structure and brilliant colors shown in the work seem heterogeneous, but there are harmonious standards for the writer alone. This is seen as the author’s interest in the surroundings that make up the landscape and the structure that supports the landscape, and the way in which it is expressed. The author evokes a visual sense through lines and colors that are emitted in and out of the work. A work in which visible and non-visible areas are mixed is a landscape with fluid flows made up of the dismantling and construction of free structures not tied to existing landscape paintings. When asked if the world we live in is like a constant maze, it reminds us of what kind of exit we can find.

-Planning, writing Jeong Hee-ra, Mimesis Art Museum curator