Until February 1 Next Year
The exhibition space Kyobo Art Space announced on December 19 that it will host the exhibition "Painting in the Digital Age: White" until February 1 next year. "White" serves as a metaphor for the empty screen that connects to the outside world and forms identity, while also referring to the white cube as an exhibition space.
This exhibition will feature a total of 23 works, including new pieces and previously unreleased paintings by artists born in the 1990s: Park Jieun, Yoon Youngbin, and Jeong Iji. The exhibition explores how the paintings of these three artists are connected to the digital network society and how each artist forms their own identity.
Park Jieun reinterprets the "Four Heavenly Kings," Buddhist guardian deities traditionally perceived as male in historical records, as "girls of Seoul" in the 2020s. She playfully transforms these classical icons by combining them with contemporary visual culture, such as "photo booth strips" or smartphone applications.
Yoon Youngbin translates images from clipart, photo frames, and fancy stationery into paintings, exploring the existence of painting through brushstrokes and traces of paint.
Jeong Iji pursues slow painting. After deleting everything but the core content from her own snapshots, she cultivates a unique painterly language within what remains.
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