“The Medium: Colored, Brushed” Installation view at IMSOOBIN GALLERY ©ArtistIm Sunny (b.1975) is holding a solo exhibition, 《The Medium: Colored, Brushed》 at IMSOOBIN GALLERY 1 and 2 (formerly Ruach Gallery) in Yongsan until June 7.
The exhibition aims to showcase the presence of the artist's works through the
concepts of flatness and medium in painting, centered on 'color' and
'brushstrokes'.
Im Sunny's
work shows an exploration of flatness that reveals the properties of the medium
itself, not just its reproduction or content through depiction. Through the
basic elements of painting, such as brushstrokes, color, form, and composition,
she contrasts them with descriptive paintings, showing painting as a concept of
medium and the flatness.
In Brushed
Blue, Red, and White Parrots (2021), the parrots are painted with thick and
rough brushstrokes, and only the colors of red, orange, blue, and green reveal
the presence of their shapes. The objects are painted consistently without
significant changes in color depth, removing any sense of depth from the space
and suggesting flatness. Another work, Vanitas_The Best Moment (2022), is
based on candles and flowers from Vanitas' paintings and uses complementary
colors to reveal the presence of each, expressing the emptiness and anxiety
between them.
The
artist's recent works depart from the traditional perspective, focusing on composing flat surfaces with color. The objects that appear
in the works are formed by multiple layers of color, each of which has an organic
and natural relationship with the other. In doing so, the artist is addressing
issues that she has been struggling with since she began painting, namely the
contemporary possibilities of medium and flatness in contemporary Korean
painting and the nature of form.
