Jeonbuk Provincial Museum of Art, 'Yang Gyu-jun Solo Exhibition' from the 20th

Artist Yang Gujun's work 'Black Landscape'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Gominhyung] The Jeonbuk Provincial Museum of Art (Director Kim Eun-young) Seoul Branch will hold the ‘Yang Gyujun Solo Exhibition’ from the 20th to the 25th.

The artist was born in Sunchang, Jeonbuk, graduated from Jeonju High School (52nd class), completed graduate studies at Whitecliffe College of Arts in New Zealand, practical courses at Auckland University of Arts graduate school, and graduated from the Department of Western Painting, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, including its graduate school.

He has held 18 solo exhibitions including at Jeonbuk Provincial Museum of Art Seoul Branch, Yeongun Museum of Art (Gyeonggi Province), Baeksong Gallery (Seoul), White Space Gallery (New Zealand), and North Art Gallery (New Zealand).

He has also been actively involved in over 150 curated invitational exhibitions. He has taught at Chung-Ang University Department of Western Painting (2012?17), Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Arts (2018), and Sunhwa Arts High School Art Department (1985?97, 2012?18).

The artist’s works are filled with various brush traces. In this exhibition, the definite brush touches shown in previous works permeate the canvas under the name Black Sansu (Black Landscape). When quietly observed, the black color repeatedly seeps, spreads, and overlaps, resembling ink wash painting drawn with water and ink on traditional Korean paper (hanji).

Through the Western medium of acrylic on canvas, the artist creates the effect of ink wash spreading and dripping. His works show the intersection of contrasting elements such as plan and chance, reason and emotion, fullness and emptiness. Elements of inner duality harmoniously coexist and blend, producing a unique tension and vitality characteristic of the artist. The opposing elements of intention and chance reveal themselves in balance and imbalance, operating as a warm tension.

Black Sansu embodies the characteristics of landscape painting and the properties conveyed by the materials of canvas and acrylic, representing a fusion of Eastern and Western art. Along with this hybridity, changes caused by the artist’s intentional and unintentional bodily movements and the inhalation and exhalation of breath cause his painting to intersect between fullness and emptiness.

Heidegger said that everything humans encounter already exists within relationships. This means that within all dualities, and furthermore through the artwork, the artist seeks to confer existential value on all living things in this world. Though it may seem like nothing is there, ultimately some landscape is concealed and layered, revealing itself according to the artist’s gestures, inviting viewers to face a world of contemplation within ambiguity.

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