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〈Mt. Geumgang〉

Shin Jang-sik (Gallery Icon Invitation)

Type
Solo
Period
1993-04-30 — 1993-05-11
Venue
Gallery Icon, Seoul
Critic
Chung Young-mok

Overview

A solo exhibition titled 〈Mt. Geumgang〉, presented at Gallery Icon's invitation from April 30 to May 11, 1993. The show stands at the hinge where the artist moved from the late-1980s 〈Arirang〉 period — by way of his 1992 solo at Gallery Icon — into Mt. Geumgang as a sustained, principal subject. Alongside two large-scale works (a 546×227cm 〈Mt. Geumgang〉 and a 454×181cm 〈Arirang — Vital Force〉), the show presented the 〈Vital Force〉 and 〈Arirang — Vital Force〉 series that the artist himself, from 1992 onward, called 'images of vegetable life' — a landscape rooted in the juniper at the Onyang Folk Museum garden, a piece that recalled wildflowers caught in the headlights of an oncoming car on a dark country road, and others. The exhibition essay was written by art critic Chung Young-mok (Professor at Sookmyung Women's University). Chung tracked the artist's path away from the direct iconography and folk reference of the 〈Arirang〉 period toward an objectified handling of "what is ours," analyzing — in terms of form and structure — how Jeong Seon's 〈Geumgangsan-do〉 shaped the artist's landscape form.

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도서 OCR로 식별한 1993년 누락 전시 entry. 전시 평론은 정영목(숙명여대 교수, 서양미술사·미술평론)이 작성 — ar-1993-001로 별도 archive. 출품작 15건은 작가 블로그 포스팅(90088692450) 캡션 매칭으로 자동 식별한 14건(1992-030/031/032 + 1993-011~021)과 사용자 시각 검수로 확정한 1993-004(생명력 33×33, 다른 source ingest이지만 본 전시 캡션과 1:1 매칭)를 포함. 본 포스팅 안 (도.1)~(도.5) 이미지는 작가 작품 외 외부 자료(1988 작가 작품 도판, 정선 〈금강산도〉, 일제 사진첩, 1990s 북한 TV 화면)로 출품작에서 제외.