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HAF 2019
March 29- April 1, 2019
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RT205,ed.1-3, gelatin silver print,101x82cm, 2013
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
 




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