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Affordable Art Fair
Hong Kong 2016 |
City-Disappearing Landscape, Korean paper collage and acrylic on canvas, 116.7x80.3cm, 2017
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JOUNG Youngju (1970~)
Youngju Joung’s work portrays a shanty town hid by the buildings in the city. She pastes a Korean hand-made paper on a canvas, then, applies colors on it. This method is similar to 'papier colle' technique. The unique characteristic appearing in Korean hand-made papers allows her work seen like absorbing sunlight and revealing it warmly. She started to use and explore the technique since she had studied in Paris. What she is now is the assemblage made of the fragments of her memories in the past. She wants that the idea is also revealed in her work: She employs hundreds of pieces of paper in order to make a house, town and the world in her work. House is not only a physical space, but also a base of human spirit and culture, as well as a private history. Many people, however, pursue something new while they easily forget and destroy the old ones, such as old houses in the shanty town. She doesn’t think that the new buildings suddenly appearing overnight contain good memories and deliver it to people because there is no human nature. She regrets that the shanty town becomes disappearing. So, she tries to give it an important role as a main actor in the lives existing in her works. In this point, her works are really paradoxical because it is not likely to happen that the shanty town and old memories would be a mainstream in this generation covered with massive buildings and capitalism. Her works are an attempt to express paradise with something discarded or forgotten. The shanty town on her canvas gives a certain kind of silent stability and warmth to people who might be tired of the city. 1994 painting, Hongik University , Korea 1997 painting, Ecle des beaux-art ,France Solo Exhibition 2013 epoque gallery (Seoul) 2013 artfactory gallery (pasu)) 2013 Godo gallery (Seoul) 2012 Aka gallery (Seoul) 2010 Gaheodong 60 gallery (Seoul) 2009 Mui gallery (Seoul) 2009 Pusan museum of art (Pusan) 1999 Insa gallery (Seoul) 1997 oniva gallery (Paris) 1995 Givert josep gallery (Versilles) Selected Group Exhibition 2014 3 artist exhibition (park yong gallery,pasu) 3 artist exhibition ( Gallery far beyond,seoul) cou cou Paris (artspace K, seoul) neon city (gallery lotte,anyang,deasun ) landscape ( epoque gallery ,Seoul) gallery hanpiyum openning (kildam, gallery hanpiyum ,seoul) hanpiyum openning (kildam, gallery gallery hanpiyum ,seoul) 5artist exhibition ( Gallery aka,seoul) 2013 talking to painting (Aka gallery, Seoul) door of secret (gallery gak, Seoul) Arts pace M1024 opening 3artists show(Artspace M1024 ,Busan) Medisen newyork artcenter opening exhibition(Medisen newyork artcenter ,bundang) Art-Fair 2014 artroad77 artfair (pasu) SOAF(coex,seoul) korean gallery artfair (coex,seoul) Asia hotel artfair (Hongkong- marcopolo hotel) 2013 artroad77 artfair (pasu) bank artfair(hongkong) SOAF(coex,seoul) deguartfair(EXCO, deagu) seoul artshow(coex,seoul) Collection National museum of mordern and contempolary art korea Pusan saha warfair center Suseo pollice station Heaundea warfair center Aka gallery France givert joseph Zandali gallery Gaheodong60 gallery Ulsan university hospital Seoul Asan hospital Shanghai bluepanda network technology Nonbat gallery, and private collection |
