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Woman
of the woman
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Woman
of the woman
-Finding the identity of life-
■ Display Period: Sep. 10th – 17th, 1998
■ Place: Art center ‘Sol’
■ Organized by: Independent Curator, Ok-real Kim
■ Critic: Ok-real Kim
■ Artists: Myung-mi Lee, Young-sik Lee,
Kang-mi Yoon
Finding the
identity of life
Today,
one is accustomed to human mechanization, caused by materialism originated
from the diffusion of consumption culture, and by the flood of reproduction. That is
to say, woman has been devaluated and projected in immoral pornography by the
commercial images indiscreetly used, materialism, and the banalized notion of
reproduction. It is about time to dedicate our time and passion to the
restoration of femininity and to finding of the identity of life, and establish
the new values of the human beings. In this context, this exhibition proposes
to erase these negative images of woman, set up a new vision of femininity and be
actively engaged in finding the meaning of her existence. (*translated
by Yi, Ju-yeon)
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Artists and their works>
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Myung-mi Lee - Encounter:
“Figurative images” and “Letters”
To practice her definition of art: ‘art must be fundamentally easy, and
should avoid being too serious,’ she paints in an easy
and amusing way. Her work starts from a ‘play.’ Though it is not so explicit, a certain
clarity exists in her work of free imagination and liberation. That is because
there is a certain system established between the letters (of sound) and the figurative
images (of vision). To be more specific, assimilating the figurative images of
flexible meaning with the letters, she attempts to minimize the polysemy of a
visual image and transforms their inconsistent relationship to an intimate one
between two different systems. The traditional thought: ‘a mistaken sense can
misguide impressions’ is now reconfirmed.
[Painting 1] Myung-mi Lee, lady & gentleman, Acryl on canvas (227.3×181.8㎝), 1998.
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Young-sik Lee – Looking at
images to find the truth
The anxiety and isolation of the moderns are due to the
overlooked oppressions caused by materialism and mass reproduction. The artist
Young-sik Lee transfers the false image of these modern phenomena to an object,
‘gomushin (Korean traditional shoes).’ It is an attempt to trace back the
origin of life and suggest “looking at the image” in order to “find the truth”,
using the opposing senses of ‘real’ and ‘unreal,’ and of being ‘full’ and ‘empty.’
The logic in it is; the true image can be vividly demonstrated only when the
false image is emphasized - like a beam of light shines more brightly in the
darkness of the night. Such paradoxical analogy will help each of us to find
the internal truth in ourselves.
[Painting 2] Young-sik Lee, False
image-s, Acryl on ‘gomushin’, 1998.
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Kang-mi Yoon – Rapport between myth and everyday life
Kang-mi Yoon realizes the objects of everyday life and
the mythical figures on canvas with intense strokes of brush and builds an
intimate rapport between them. This is done as what lies under the surface of
the myth and daily life comes out and transcends time and space. This encounter
is that of artist’s imagination and her formative power, which enchants us to
travel in this strange world, artist’s realm of the real and the imaginative.
[Painting 3] Kang-mi Yoon, Castle
in the air, Dying of cotton yarn and silk screen on paper (400×300㎝), 1998.
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