ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE

Korean Art
August 2010

Category 1 – Korean Traditional Subjects as Creative Resource
My grandmother’s jar stand
6(P), Mixed material, 2010
Kyo-young Keum
Junior, the Korea National University of Art. major in Fine Art.
2010 Solo exhibition ‘Drawing of the Fantastic Puzzles’, B105 gallery, Korea
2010 Awards, Art of Korea Festival (Sponsorship of International Fine Art Artist Association)
2009 Awards, Kyung Hyang Art Festival (Sponsorship of Kyung Hyang Newspaper publishing company)


My grandmother shook down and dried pepper. The ripen pepper closely in the sun impressed me as it was more red. My grandmother made red pepper paste, soybean paste and soy sauce herself, and when they were out of, as usual, she sent them to us. In large part due to that, the taste of my mother’s food didn’t change all year round. My mother’s cooking was really excellent like my grandmother.

Milky colored jar
6 (P), 2010
Kyo-young Keum
Junior, the Korea National University of Art. major in Fine Art.
2010 Solo exhibition ‘Drawing of the Fantastic Puzzles’, B105 gallery, Korea
2010 Awards, Art of Korea Festival (Sponsorship of International Fine Art Artist Association)
2009 Awards, Kyung Hyang Art Festival (Sponsorship of Kyung Hyang Newspaper publishing company)

Category 2 – Korean Traditional Objects as Creative Resource
The explored pink
50×80 inches, mixed media (the artist’s own color technique (Asian style)), 2010
Ji-seong Ahn
Artist
2010 Solo Exhibitions, New year special issue, Korean Modern Art Preview show,
Yi hyung art ceter
2009 Solo Exhibitions, NewYork World Art Festival show, gallerysang-157
2009 Awards, CSIAF2009 Excellent writer prize,
Division: Conversation
The curious common problem mean it to new-entle that essence for Korean painting’s being character. Saying that, The contents between formal is the important for “True art is real art”. The meaning of art is to pick up just writer’s real truth mind reacting on reason. As we feel the truth magic that we send and Searching for something new Isle of Gold in flowers bloom.
“Swallowing inspiration divined in the mind’s lake flow away from the signed yell on the melody. So I have to crazy for Love in whenever.”

The Explored Diamond
50×80 inches, mixed media (the artist’s own color technique (Asian style)), 2010
Ji-seong Ahn
Artist
2010 Solo Exhibitions, New year special issue, Korean Modern Art Preview show,
Yi hyung art ceter
2009 Solo Exhibitions, NewYork World Art Festival show, gallerysang-157
2009 Awards, CSIAF2009 Excellent writer prize , Division: Conversation
Previously I had been negative on my young view. Searching around ‘The fresh something a bit’ received sound of playing piano. After all it is developed to work for my self-confidence and self-identify to these days. So this nature proceed to my inner mind about art’s symbol. What is the ‘contemporary art’ about art’s symbol. It is recently the curious common problem For me and sound figure
My sound move with all my heart reflected on ‘Familienähnlichkeiten’. It will be to make some ‘music’ for all around world, Step by step. At last, it is explored for my lover inspiration upon mind.

When Can Our Dream Come True
10(P), Asian paint on handmade Asian paper
Jin O
Artist
2009 Solo Exhibitions, 7th, “It’s Raining Stars” , Arche Gallery, Seoul
2006 Group Exhibitions, “Korean Contemporary Artists’ Show”, New Zealand
1991 Awards, Prize Winner, Korean Painting Competition, Korea

Hope1, During the night
20×20 inches, lacquer painting, 2009
Jong-Sook Lee
Artist
“My History”Love2arts-Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Paint” 10 Featured Artist’s award winner
Edmonds art festival (award winner), WA, USA
First time, start, and a new always bring hope and expectations. Human’s every hope and blessing is symbolized in mother-of-pearl and on Korean traditional patterns, and they are like a religion that drives out sincere wishes.

Gift
10(P), mixed media on Korean paper
Soon-Min choi
Artist
Because of my difficult life situation, I began cutting bronze plates into 10×10cm smaller pieces, corroded them, and connected them together into bigger image. During such process, I began finding attractions of working with patch work artworks. Korean traditional paper, Hanji is used in my paintings.

Fill Again 1, Fill Again 2
20×20 inches, mixed media on canvas (colored Korean paper, etc.), 2009
Eun-Young Heo
Artist
2010 Los Angeles Art show, LA Convention Center, USA
2010 Spirit Asia 2010, Scola Art Center, Beijing, China
2008 St-art 13e edition, Parc des exposition, Strasbourg Wacken, France
The Motive of My Artwork
Nature is the source of all kinds of human artistic inspiration. Growing up, I was always fascinated by the mystique and wonder of nature. The basic motif of my artwork comes from this ecological interest- the beauty of the endless changing nature. In particular, the vital spirit circulating from the inner core of plants. Over the years, I have been working on expanding the image of the core of a simple trifling seed and bringing to life its imagery.
In addition to exploring the world of nature, I have also been captivated with the “inner mind”, which I have symbolized in my work in the form of boxes. The boxes represent special emotions and memory. It represents man’s invisible emotion, desire of control and possession, ideas, concepts, emotions, memories, and the unconscious mind. In my personal life, the boxes represent special emotions and memories from my early years. In my artwork, the boxes seem to be empty inside. However, it’s an open space containing multiple senses (such as nature, life, beauty, death, anticipation, memory, imagination, knowledge, and events). It is the storehouse of what already happened or will happen, events that will re- occur or meet at the intersection where the future and the past cross.