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〈Meditation — Mt. Geumgang〉

Shin Jang-sik Solo Exhibition

Type
Solo
Period
2001-09-04 — 2001-11-09
Venue
  • Kookmin University Art Gallery, Seoul
    2001-09-04 — 2001-09-19
  • Wooduk Gallery, Seoul
    2001-10-30 — 2001-11-09
Critic
Kang Tae-seong, Yang Jeong-mu, Yoo Si-min

Overview

A two-venue touring solo exhibition that began as the inaugural show of Kookmin University Art Gallery and continued at Wooduk Gallery. The artist presented his 〈Mt. Geumgang〉 paintings together with a new sculptural series — eleven hanji 〈Meditation〉 pieces. Following his shift in the late 1990s toward observation-based representation after two field visits to Mt. Geumgang, this exhibition consolidated that turn while introducing, for the first time, his three-dimensional "meditation on the self."

Kang Tae-seong's essay 〈Mt. Geumgang, 'para-doxa'〉 was written for this exhibition, and the October 2001 EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS of Monthly Art Magazine featured Yang Jeong-mu's (Korea National University of Arts) 〈Shin Jang-sik Exhibition〉. Yoo Si-min's 〈'The Joy of Having a Painter Friend', Shin Jang-sik, and the Aesthetics of His Communication〉 was also written around the same period. Kang read the work through the lens of "parallelism and paradox (para-doxa)," and Yang framed 〈Mt. Geumgang Manmulsang — 1998.11.21〉 as a sign of "the destruction of mystery and a turn inward."

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