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HAF 2019
March 29- April 1, 2019 |
RT205,ed.1-3, gelatin silver print,101x82cm, 2013
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MIN Byunghun(1955~)
Min has been using straight photography to represent the nature, celebrated the beauty of grey tone and detail that is found only in photographs. He borrows the eye from the camera itself to express the object more subtle, in the notion of human's eye cannot catch every moment of the nature Every piece of Min's photos have been developed and printed by his own hand in the darkroom. He blocks an illuminant and depends only on hazy grey tones to take control of the descriptive image he wants, directs the lens to the subject to merge in together. Photos are likely shown to the viewer as a painting rather than a photo in some way. The whole scenes in his works are fulfilled with tree branches and leaves; yet, the tone and the texture of the subjects have a feeling of brush strokes or a pencil drawing because of its delicate application of lights and details. Vaguely disappearing the subject with spreading shadows is also alike the eastern painting's spreading manner. If Min was focused on using intuition and contemplation in Snow Land series, in the series of Trees and Flowers, he was more concentrated on the observation of the nature, by fading the close up the lucid figure, by means of deleting the distance between nature and the artist himself. Min employs the ordinary objects but significant things around us such as the nature to recapture the beauty of it in his lens. In a reciprocal relationship, the viewer also erases the distance in between the nature and tries to find out what lies beyond the artist's blurred and shadowy images. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 Hanmi Photo museum, Seoul 2018 Banyantree Seoul, Seoul Art Delight, Seoul 2017 Space 22, Seoul 2015 Gallery Planet, Seoul 2014 Mimesis Art Museum, Paju/ La Galerie Particulière, Paris 2013 The Museum of Photography, Seoul/ Ryu Hwarang, Seoul 2012 Gallery Jireh, Paju 2011 La Galerie Particulière, Paris/ The Museum of Photography, Seoul/ CAIS Gallery, Seoul 2009 LEEHWAIK Gallery, Seoul 2008 CAIS Gallery, Seoul 2007 Gallery KONG, Seoul/ Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica/ Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris 2006 KIMHYUNJOO Gallery, Seoul/ CAIS Gallery, Seoul 2004 Dosi Gallery, Busan/ The Museum of Photography, Seoul 2002 Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe 2001 Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris/ CAIS Gallery, Seoul 1999 Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul/ Jan Kesner Gallery, LA 1998 CAIS Gallery, Seoul/ Time Space, Seoul 1997 Jan Kesner Gallery, LA 1996 Gaain Gallery, Seoul Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Greeting from South Korea-Reinventing Out time, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing To know the new by studying the old, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 2018 Greeting from South Korea-Reinventing Out time, Jimei x Arles international photo festival, Three shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China Korean’s spirit ll, Artvera’s gallery, Geneva, Italy Looking at Landscape, The museum of photography, Seoul, South Korea 2017 Art 369, Artplace, Seoul, South Korea Joy of spring, National folk museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea 2016 Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 2015 Korea Spirit-Materiality and Spirit of the Contemporary Art, Grimson Gallery, Seoul Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung 2014 The Emptying Fullness, SPSI Art Museum, Shanhai; Shanghai Korean Center, Shanghai Korean beauty-Two kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul 2013 Korea Tomorrow 2013, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul PHOTOSCAPE: Eye for the Ordinary Miracle, Interalia Art Company, Seoul 2012 Personal Photo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara 2011 Korean Spirit: Six Photographers, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang 2010 21 & Their Times, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul/ A Positive View, Somerset House, London 2009 Photography Now, China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston 2008 Visual art of today, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Brookings Institution, Washington DC Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Photography, Seoul Daejon Museum of Art, Daejon Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul Daelim Museum of Art, Seoul National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwachon Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan |
