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SCOPE New York 2009
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길들여지지 않기, 145.5x112.1cm, Oil on canvas 2009
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SEO Sangik (1977~)
Our life is repeating the same patterns. We try to escape from this dull life being skeptical, but we cannot easily get over with it. Even though today is not much different from yesterday, it is clear that today and yesterday are never the same; every moment of our lives is filled with different emotions and thoughts. Developing from this notion, the artist captures and expresses the dramatic moment mingled by everyday life and his imagination on canvas. Likewise, Seo Sangik delicately combines personal stories with the realistic space, resulting in a natural moment captured from daily life. We may recognize his interests from his works that from his first solo exhibition <When afternoon melt down>, he employs the elements from the public media including movie, music, TV show to mingle with and created his own witty story from daily life. From his second solo exhibition <Circus>, he reached to broader and more specific space, such as an apartment and an art museum from the limited personal space, such as his studio, and his fragmented thoughts are separated and reassembled by his own systematic classification. When his earlier works narrated personal thoughts at the private space, now his new series of museum works confidentially refer to the stories of others at the alternate space. Each work is directed by a moment/motive to guide the viewer’s perspective to create vivid experience within the paintings. Form and content from the works of the exhibition <Familiar Landscape> may be quite similar to those of the last series, but his method of expression becomes more flexible and free. If the last works were focusing on creating the narration, the new series place emphasis on the composition, hue, and means of expression. Also rather than planting stories, he expanded the existing space in order to create another new space, which does not exist in reality. Set up by the artist as devices, various types of doors become the entrance from familiar space to unfamiliar fantasy. He depicts a moment when ordinary life changes and faces the limit, suddenly the familiar landscape turns into the strange, unfamiliar scene. This instant occurs in ‘Chal-Na’, the smallest unit of time in Buddhism, and the artist believes that the door would open at that moment, and we may enter and explore different world, or unknown element may infiltrate into our life, resulting in transition. Moreover, works are painted with limited color palette that the artist considered the moment ‘Chal-Na’, captured from the ordinary life in full of vibrant colors, is faded and lifeless, thus painted in black and white. Education 2005 B.F.A in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul 2008 finished MFA progress graduate studies in Painting, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul Solo Exhibitions 2015 Days of none of some, Yoon Arte, Shanghai, China Temple of the Artist, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea Monodrama, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea 2014 A Place for Self-alienators, Gallery Kiche, Seoul 2013 Typicla Scenes, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul 2010 Circus, Interalia, Seoul 2008 When Afternoon Melt Down, Lina Gallery, Seoul Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 Be My Love (Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea) Inside Drawing (Ilwoo art space, Seoul. Korea) 2015 Painting, stoped time (Atelie AKI, Seoul, Korea) Reflection (Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea) Self-brief (Dongduk Gallery, Seoul, Korea) 2014 New Opening (Gallery UNC, Seoul, Korea) Artroad77 (Artfactory, Heyri, Paju, Korea) A Glimpse, Gallery LVS, Seoul,Korea 2013 33 Artists of Korean Contemporary Painting, Gangdong Art cener, Seoul, Korea The world beyond triviality, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea In Square, Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea 2012 The Art of Painting, Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea Beatles 50 years, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea Sequence, Interalia, Seoul Gift & Small Painting, Seoul Auction Gangnam Space, Seoul; Jang Heung Art Park, Yangjoo, Korea 2011 Support, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Interalia 2008-2011, Interalia, Seoul Multi Colored Sentiment: A Daydream in the Snow, gallery Zandari, Seoul A Play 2, ART Factory, Paju, Korea The Strategy of Appropriation, LOTTE GALLERY Anayng Store, Anyang, Korea Home Run – Shooting for the Hope!, KBO 30th Anniversary Exhibition, LOTTE GALLERY Yeongdeungpo Store, Seoul Home Run – Shooting for the Hope!, KBO 30th Anniversary Exhibition LOTTE GALLERY Gwangbok Store, Busan, Korea Gift & Small Painting, Seoul Auction Gangnam Space, Seoul Encountering Drawing, gallery Zandari, Seoul 2010 Do Window Volume 2, Gallery HYUNDAI Gangnam Space, Seoul The Extraordinary Time Travel, Woljeon Museum of Art Icheon, Icheon, Korea Intuition, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul Allegoria, Gallery Bob, Seoul I M Art & Artist Ⅲ, I M Art Gallery, Seoul ZERO IN, Salon de H, Seoul Sun Gallery 33rd Anniversary Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Seoul 2009 Spectacles and Contemporary Art, Television 12, Seoul Gallery HYUNDAI Window Gallery, Seoul Ask to Paintings, KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul Beyond Realism, Bong Art Gallery, Seoul Some Places, Gallery IHN, Seoul SCOPE New York, Lincoln Center, New York The __EXPRESSION__ of the Mind, Lotte Art Gallery, Seoul 2008 IYAP 2008: Mapping the Future of Art, Interalia, Seoul Trivial, but Precious, Art Space Bom, Chuncheon, Korea Dialog in Between, Seoul National University, Seoul Right to Dream, ART Factroy, Paju, Korea Appearance and Fantasy, AKA gallery, Seoul Imaginations, Space La Isla, Seoul 2007 Excellent Young Artists, Gallery GAIA, Seoul Young Artists Selected by Misulsegye, Gallery La Mer, Seoul 2006 A Play, Gallery NV, Seoul 2005 Existence and Representation, Gallery GAIA, Seou |
