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Artist Kang Cheolgyu: Surreal Landscapes Reflecting the Inner Psyche
Kang Cheolgyu (b. 1990) presents narrative paintings in which reality and fiction intersect, drawing from autobiographical experiences. He projects his inner conflicts onto specific subjects and situations, reconstructing them through a symbolic visual language. The fictional worlds he builds on canvas function as psychological landscapes—symbolic spaces that metaphorically reflect his own reality.
2025.07.21
Exhibitions
《Young Korean Artists 2021》, 2021.05.28 – 2021.09.22, MMCA, Gwacheon
《Young Korean Artists 2021》 is the 20th exhibition of the MMCA's 《Young Korean Artists program》, which first began in 1981and now, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, has become Korea's most time-honored and authoritative program dedicated to discovering young and emerging artists.
2021.05.26
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《A Night of Burning Bone and Skin》, 2014.06.20 – 2014.07.27, Hakgojae Gallery
Hakgojae Gallery presents a solo exhibition by media artist Yangachi, titled 《A Night of Burning Bone and Skin》, from June 20 to July 27, 2014. The exhibition title borrows from a film produced in the early 1980s as part of the military regime’s so-called “3S” policy (Sports, Sex, Screen).
2014.06.20
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Artist Choi Gene Uk’s ‘Sentimental Realism’
Artist Choi Gene Uk (b. 1956) has been painting for over 40 years in his own artistic language of ‘sentimental realism', depicting the objects and environment around him, as well as Korean society as seen through his own eyes.
2024.08.13
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Artist Inhyeon Lee’s Ways of Seeing the Painting
Since the early 1990s, Inhyeon Lee (b. 1958) has been exploring the art historical structures that shape our perception of painting. Lee has been questioning the facets as a front in modernist painting, and presenting a multi-layered exploration of painting for the past 30 years in his series L’épistémè of Painting.
2024.07.30
