Exhibition Information

I TRIED : Diving
2019 97x130cm

Reveal
2020 clay on mixed midea 90x135cm

2020 clay on mixed midea 227x182cm

I TRIED : Jumping
2019 97x130cm

			Gallerychosun will host Woo Min-jung's personal exhibition <Carving the moon's surface> from July 9,2020 to July 24,2020. Although the writer majored in Oriental painting, he has built his own unique working world with interest in various media expressions. Since 2013, he has been carving various images and wishes in his daily life by making clay plates, scraping and coloring the surface. The exhibition will feature some 20 new works that reflect Woo Min-jung's recent experiments and exploration.

As the title <Carving the moon's surface> reveals, the exhibition tests various poetic effects that occur between being far away and near, eternal and temporary, transcendental and pervasive by comparing the surface of the painting to the surface of the moon. In contrast to the heavy and solemn atmosphere of the surface reminiscent of ancient murals, the image and the feeling of the lines in the paintings are cheerful and lively. If ancient murals were made to remember and commemorate the general wish firmly on the wall, Woo Min-jung's murals are considered rather an experiment to capture the fleetingness of the moment or the motility of moving. Rather than inducing the audience to fall short beyond the surface of the painting, the exhibition makes the eyes long fixed on the surface to ponder the meaning of the minor, temporary traces overlaid there.

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