Two Shows
dal 30/5/2006 al 29/6/2006
Segnalato da
30/5/2006
Two Shows
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Painting S(e)oul. Are you lonesome tonight? - Yeondoo Jung. Painting S(e)oul presents the works of five artists from Germany who are gaining increasing attention in Europe and America. Yeondoo Jung’s ‘Are you lonesome tonight?’ is the artist’s commentary on our world where the real and the fake coexist.
Painting S(e)oul (1F)
Eberhard Havekost, Frank Nitsche, Tatjana Doll, Slawomir Elsner, Thoralf Knobloch
May 31 - June 30
Painting S(e)oul presents the works of five artists from Germany who are gaining
increasing attention in Europe and America. Focusing on cliche'd motifs as the
basis for their works and representing these motifs in a way that reflect upon our
postmodern, industrial, media-saturated world, their works pay witness to the banal,
sometimes brilliant, sometimes more or less tedious everyday world of our pop
society. In these bodies of work poetic matter can be found alongside pop-like
fetishizing, social critical realism, as well as formulations that reflect on the
media and abstract visions.
Eberhard Havekost, Fank Nitsche and Thoralf Kobloch studied at the Dresden School of
Visual Art and Tatjana Doll graduated from the Dusseldorf Kunstakademie.
Slawomir Elsner was born in Poland and studied in Kassel. They currently live and
work in Berlin and Dresden.
Are you lonesome tonight? - Yeondoo Jung (2F)
May 31 - June 30
Living in a world where any images can be easily altered or synthesized, we often
find ourselves scrutinizing over the details of a beautiful picture looking for a
sign of digital touch up or alteration. Since the invention of the digital camera
and image editing programs, it is sometimes impossible for us to have an absolute
certainty about any kind of photographic images we encounter. Yeondoo Jung’s ‘Are
you lonesome tonight?’ is the artist’s commentary on our world where the real and
the fake coexist, where reality is confused with simulation. Through his new series
of works called “Locations," the artist combines real landscape and staged setting
to explore the boundary between real space and imaginary space, painting and
photography.
Yeondoo Jung graduated from Seoul National University and Goldsmith College in
London. Currently living and working in Seoul, his work has been featured in group
and solo shows throughout the world, including the recent Venice Biennale in 2005.
Kukje Gallery
59-1 Sokyuk-dong, Chongro-ku - Seoul
Opening Hours: Tues-Fri 10:00am-6:00pm, Sat, Sun 10:00am-5:00pm