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WESS
"Eternity and a Day," a Two-Person Exhibition with ‘Connection’ as the Keyword
WESS, a non-profit organization, will present “Eternity and a Day” by Areum Kim and Suyeont from May 17 to June 16. The two-person exhibition is concerated on the theme of ‘Connection,’ which runs through the entire this exhibition.
Kim’s interest in the emotions that dominate a particular period of time, and the shapes that keep coming into her mind, lead to her working motifs, depicting the inner and outer worlds as promised symbols. Throughout the artist’s work, several figures appear; hearts, flowers, butterflies, birds, and water droplets, which are connected through the curves of vines in nature.
Vines have the ability to wrap themselves around their surroundings and extend into the whole, and the artist finds new abstract inspiration in the free-flowing tangles of natural vines, which she emulates. The silhouettes, cars, cliffs, and maps that emerge through the curves of these vines are connected to the iconography, and the whole becomes one. They are metaphors for love, connection, and departure.
In Suyeont’s work, some of the figures appear as specific symbols, such as circles, houses, stars, and streams of water, and they appear like characters. The house represents herself, and the pair of symbols metaphorizes the relationship between two people. In order to express the sense of connection on a canvas, the forms are recorded with the most refined lines, eliminating unnecessary elements and, in the artist’s words, ‘painting to the minimum’. The artist’s work is composed of the minimal elements that constitute personal and social relationships, and as it appears on the screen, the artist’s work eliminates improvisational choices in the formulation as much as possible.
Both artists develop their oeuvre around an interest in the invisible world. Both artists’ works are reminiscent of some form but do not correspond to actual objects in the real world. The inner worlds they make visible are different, colorful, emotional, and free. The exhibition attempts to reveal the uniqueness of each artist’s work while also exploring the possibility of finding a meaningful nodal point.
Space CAN
A Two-Person Exhibition about Completion as Unfinished: "Leave Over"
Space CAN, operated by the CAN Foundation, is pleased to present “Leave Over,” a two-person exhibition by Kang Sangbin and Kim Jaehwan, on view from May 18 to June 17. This exhibition features artists who participated in CAN Foundation’s 2023 ‘In Between’ project.
Like Van Gogh and Gauguin, Picasso, and Braque, there are artists in the art world who grew up together and influenced each other. The information and influences they exchanged with each other preceded institutions and education, which stimulated and positively affected them.
Born out of this past factual relationship, ‘In Between’ is an exhibition of artists with personal friendships, paternal and maternal relationships, or senior and junior relationships who want to explore and learn about each other’s work, and it is an exhibition that considers and expects the synergy and positive impact of the complementarity between artists.
The exhibition presents the works of Kang Sangbin and Kim Jaehwan, who have been friends since their college days and have grown together and influenced each other’s work, in one exhibition for the first time. The title of the exhibition, “Leave Over,” refers to the artists’ attitude toward their work, which is to say that their works, which are completed by taking away from perfection, are finalized through the artist’s mind and the viewer’s appreciation. Rather than trying to convey a message through their works, the artists hope that visitors will feel the same way through this exhibition, which began with the intention of restoring the pleasure they feel in the process of creating.
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