Kyobo Bookstore Hapjeong Branch Art Wall, Park Shinyoung Solo Exhibition 'Today's Landscape'

Park Shin-young 'Dogs of the Habitat' 193x130 cm, Oil on canvas, 2020 [Photo by Kyobo Book Centre]

Asia Economy reporter Park Byung-hee] At the Art Wall of Kyobo Bookstore Hapjeong Branch, Park Sin-young's solo exhibition "Today's Landscape" will be held until April 28.

"Today's Landscape" is an exhibition that allows viewers to imagine the hidden side of everyday "landscapes" commonly seen. Artist Park Sin-young captures the anxiety felt in urban daily life and depicts it with vivid colors, but the landscapes look somewhat suspicious as if scenes from a science fiction movie. In the paintings, one can find unfamiliar elements such as "a spaceship crash-landing on an ordinary forest path, a car speeding with headlights flashing, and a satellite antenna placed in the middle of the forest."

The artist hides mysterious and intriguing motifs like "robots, missiles, satellite antennas, secret bases" often seen in movies or animations throughout the landscapes, completing a fictional space that appears as a "realistic landscape."

This exhibition also unveils Park Sin-young's new works from 2020, featuring a total of 11 large-scale pieces.

The exhibition is co-planned by "Art Space Hapjeongjigu," a non-profit art space that researches and practices ways of living together through art in the present era, based on voluntary and diverse collaborative structures among cultural and artistic creators.

Park Sin-young graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in painting from Hongik University. Last year, she was selected for OCI Young Creatives and held a solo exhibition "On a Road with No Exit" at the OCI Museum of Art. She also participated in group exhibitions such as "A Planet Full of Blank Spaces (Hapjeongjigu, 2018)" and "From the Face (2/w, 2018)."

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