Exhibition Information

Ahn Kyoung-soo, Degree of brightness
Acrylic on canvas 150X300

Lee kyo-jun, Untitled
Acrylic on aluminium plate 100x60cm

Kim Hee-young, Wall tile_cloud6
Ceramic 150X90cm

			As a way of “connecting” two artists involved in different kinds of works, the PIBI GALLERY introduced the PIBI_LINK program in 2018, the first show of which had artists Seung-il Chung and Taewoo Kim demonstrate their respective take and interpretation of the exhibition space.

Coming into the fourth year of the program, PIBI gallery presents the 2020 PIBI_LINK as the first exhibition of the year in 2020, inviting those involved in the past three years as well as future contributing artists to submit new experimental works with no limitations to theme or genre. Almost as if sampling the fabrication processes of the pieces, the works will come together in their lateral, three dimensional, installation, and video formats to demonstrate their respective identities and directions. We hope by newly “connecting” artists who have pursued and exhibited their own distinct works and methods to each other via 2020 PIBI_LINK, we can offer a fuller experience from not from the resulting chemical reaction but only by providing a new way of approaching their works that is unlike their usual shows.

Jeongbae Lee graced the very first exhibition held at PIBI GALLERY, with The Whole that Becomes a Fraction series that presented a new kind of landscape, bringing to audiences fragmented mountains and skies occasionally seen between buildings of a city as atypical objéts. In his 2018 second solo exhibition, Lee brought into the exhibition space artificial nature that exists within a city in the form of a park. The artist, who has concentrated on the many faces of nature as it exists within a large city, focuses on the unusual geographical features and the natural environment of Saudi Arabia for this exhibition, paying attention to the country’s type of cultivation, the field and its shapes. The artificial circular fields – the size and shape of which are dictated by the maximum distance reached by the water sprinklers that are positioned at the middle of each circle – that are remarkably geometrically shaped to be found in a bleak desert, come together as picture of nature that becomes a work of art. Seunghye Jung draws colorful shapes on the outside of brown envelopes, encloses drawings inside then installs them at a section of the gallery. The audiences are meant to participate by opening and viewing the story-centered drawings inside themselves. It will be interesting to see the new drawings of Jung and the stories they will unfold. The work of artist Eunsun Lee has been about expressing her interpretations of relationships formed among people as spatial installations in the form of a play activity. For this exhibition, she showcases an installation work of an enlarged paper necklace that most of us may remember making as children. The structure of the necklace is successively completed by adding links one after the other. And as such, Lee captures mutually dependent and serial aspects of relationships within the structure of simple play. Jonggeon Lee comes to us with Between Those That are Cut and Rolled, a work that comically expresses the relationship of two elements that define architectural space, the column and the wall, using two sheets of the architectural material plywood. The artist cuts out square-shaped pieces from two plywood sheet attached to the wall, and rolls the cutouts like paper into cylinders, which he installs on the floor. Neither the wall fixtures with their centers removed nor the rolled up plywood rolled can be considered walls or columns. To the artist, architecture is the relationship between people and the world that is constructed with space. Through the relationship of the cut and left over plywood pieces of this work, he is attempting to visually address the question regarding relationships among space, structure, people and the world. Gyungsu An, who has been focusing on light created by landscapes and landscapes revealed by light, showcases in this exhibition a new work that depicts light that surrounds low-lying trees growing on a tree-lined street. He divides a single scenery into two in order to express the subtle differences in the level of brightness in each section of the painting. The work of Heeyoung Kim has been about items that are used and easily discarded in everyday life, such as cheap disposable products or plastic wraps. Through her first PIBI GALLERY exhibition Cloud, the artist expands her critical stance present in her previous works regarding a consumption pattern that solely focuses on economic usefulness, by repetitively layering product or promotional information of everyday and single-use disposable objects on to ceramic tiles, with which she creates a natural landscape of sky and clouds. Under the design of the artist, the tiles that are reborn as a scene of nature become connected to each other and reveal their relationships, forming the clouds and the sky. The geometrical abstract painter Lee Kyojun brings to us a geometrical flat painting based on spatial partition. His work, that appears empty and not to be an act of painting but one that creates space within a plane, is in fact holding in it a void space with the infinite possibility of being filled with something. For this exhibition, Lee is showcasing a partition painting using aluminum and acrylic paint.
The PIBI GALLERY hopes this LINK exhibition can be an opportunity to revisit the past three years with the artists and to forge a direction for the future together.