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BRIDGE PROJECT - PROJECT.1
you can see around you
July 11 - August 1, 2008
WATERGATE gallery, SEOUL |
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In order to facilitate improved communication in the art world at least, Watergate Gallery will be initiating ‘Bridge Project’ to become a bridge for artists and audiences, art professionals and non-professions, contemporary and modern art, domestic and international art. The Bridge Project will be held twice a year to present the work of young emerging artists with great potential. Our first objective is to introduce them to world wide viewers and expose them to the international art.
The first project of ‘Bridge Project’ is called ‘you can see around you’ and 6 young artists will display their latest works (18 pieces). The artists were born after 1970’s, and are familiar with overflowing information such as internet, media, and other images in the entertainment. What do these young artists see and express while they are living in such fast changing contemporary society? These 6 artists in ‘you can see around you’ project try to reconstruct their thoughts and feelings, which are based on their experience from personal environment or incident of personal life and not based on heavy subjects such as “politics, culture, society, religion, philosophy”, through “painting”.
Painting is still an authentic creative method but for these artists it is one method to communicate and connect the artist and the world around. The artists fill the canvas with a view created by their imagination and sensibility. The artists have looked around and extended the artistic view again and have tried to connect “painting” and “everyday life” as one so can see the idealistic reality.
Lastly we wish that ‘Bridge Project’ could continuously introduce undiscovered brilliant young artists’ new works to broader viewers by beginning with the first exhibition, ‘you can see around you’.
워터게이트 갤러리는 작가와 대중, 전문가와 비전문가, 현대미술과 근대미술, 국내미술과 해외미술의 소통에 미력한 힘이나마 기여할 목적으로 원활한 소통을 위한 다리가 되겠다는 의미의 Bridge Project을 시작한다. 이번 전시를 시작으로 한국 현대 미술의 차세대 주자들, 꾸준한 성장이 기대되는 작가들의 작품을 선정하여 앞으로 정기적으로 전시회를 개최하고자 한다
Bridge Project의 첫 번째 프로젝트는 ‘you can see around you’ (당신의 주변을 바라보아요)를 주제로 가능성 있는 젊은 작가 6인의 18작품을 선보인다.
참여하는 6명의 작가들은 ‘정치, 문화, 사회, 종교, 철학’등의 무거운 주제가 아닌 개개인의 일상 자체를 소재로 하여 개인의 삶 속에서 일어나는 사사로운 사건이나 환경에서 비롯된 경험을 회화라는 정통 장르를 통해 재현하고자 한다. 이들에게 회화는 자신과 주위를 둘러싼 세계를 연결하려는 소통이며 그 관계를 표현하고자 취하는 방식이다. 각자의 상상력과 감수성을 통해 보여지는 것을 캔버스에 담는 것 그 이상의 예술적 시각의 확장, 즉 다시금 주변을 바라보며 ‘회화’와 ‘일상’과의 접목을 통한 이상주의적 현실을 바라보고자 하는 것이다. 이번 전시를 필두로 ‘Bridge Project’가 젊은 작가들의 알려지지 않은 작품세계를 알릴 수 있는 기회를 만드는 ‘다리’가 되기를 간절히 바라며 ‘you can see around you’ 전시를 시작한다.
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Koo Kyung Lim
sun flower
oil on canvas
91 x 116 cm
2008 |
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Park Sang Mi
scene_my seat
color&ink on paper
105 X 159 cm
2008 |
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Park Sang Hee
no diving
91 x 116 cm
oil on canvas
2007 |
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Ye Eun
Whirlpool
oil on canvas
145 x 112cm, 2 pieces
2007 |
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Hong Won Seok
A naughty little duckling
oil on canvas
97 x 193 cm
2008 |
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Kang Sang Hoon
Hwang-Hak Dong V
Hwang hak dong dirt on paper
130 x 148 cm, Attached Duration : 14 days
2007 |
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Kang Sang Hoon
Hwang-Hak Dong IV
Hwang hak dong dirt on paper
73 x 130 cm, Attached Duration : 10 days
2007 |
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Kang Sang Hoon
Hwang-Hak Dong II
Hwang hak dong dirt on paper
130 x 148 cm, Attached Duration : 11 days
2007 |
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BRIDGE PROJECT - PROJECT.1
you can see around you
July 11 - August 1, 2008
WATERGATE gallery, SEOUL
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