-
-
-
2013 OPEN STUDIO 'Epilogue in 6th'
Opening : 2013-04-13
Opentime : 18:00
location : Cheongju Art Studio
Date : 2013-04-03~2013-04-13
Content :
Artist
Kang Ki Hun Kim Hyung Kim Jun Ki Park Gwang Soo
Lee Jung Hee Yuk Jong Seok Im Sun Iy Choi Eun Kyung
Choi Hyun Seok Lee Byung Soo Malcom & Leel Jo Hye Jin
Yoon Dong Hee Kim Jong Hee Seo Wan Ho Yoo Mok Yon
Suri Maruyama Dirk Fleischmann(Germany) Lee Soo Kyoung
Jung Hyo Jung Jaye Moon(USA) Elodie Boutry(France)
-
-
-
-
SAUVAGE
Opening : 2013-03-14
Opentime : 6:00pm
location : Cheongju Art Studio
Date : 2013-03-14~2013-03-24
Content :
Élodie Boutry, On pattern
Polka dots, stripes or checkers, painted in very bright colours: reds, yellows, blues, a lot of pinks. Since 2005, Elodie Boutry defines her language with these elements, building a syntax from repetitive patterns which she manages to work together, in combination or opposition. In the open air or within the space of an exhibition, her 3D paintings work on the question of illusion and of surface effects. They are situated on the repetitive side, smooth and ornamental, which includes incidents, crevices in the wall and visual projections. Perfectly contained in her means and ends, this work asks a question: how to create a strong visual language from a very limited vocabulary? In Élodie Boutry’s work, the answer is probably: by organising visual elements which provoke your gaze to swing.
In her outdoor paintings she thinks of the notion of rhythm and scansion on a very great scale. Applied with mathematical precision, her systems integrate perfectly within the accommodating space. The pattern’s regularity - built on the rhythm of serial music - is radically opposed by the irregularity of the bases. In the remains of demolished dwellings , warehouses, places of devastation, and even above doors - “dessus de porte” - she introduces a coloured shape where it does not have its place. The rhythm of her mural paintings is founded on alternations and ruptures using diagonals which reminds us of those made by painter Théo Van Doesburg: dynamic and non-orthodox, therefore placing itself in opposition to Mondrian. For her part, Elodie Boutry amply revitalizes her surfaces by the colours she chooses - always very bright - but also by creating a tension between the various modes of approach and different systems of construction. She throws the area off center with regard to the general structure of a piece, creating a separation between optical patterns almost traced with severity on the surface and a base full of outgrowths. The splits, the pillars that interject with the surface create an effect of breakage and movement, close to those which would outline a space where, on a piece of cloth, a seam would be left apparent.
Indoors, Élodie Boutry builds visual machines in 3D: big wooden painted cubes to which little expansions are incorporated. By adding these features, the artist recreates the irregularity of the surface on which she founds her in situ paintings. Thanks to those structures, which remind us of a sky-exploring device, or a time-machine in which she carefully handles peep-holes, we can look at the world “through” polka-dots or stripes - applied on the inside surfaces. From the inside out, she creates contrasts, cuts. Indeed in those visual objects the external surface is most of the time quite simple - white - sometimes covered in places by coloured sections. Whereas the inside multiplies crossed perspectives, movements, juxtaposed motives which resemble a tangle of shapes, close to weaving. Such a metaphor is of an importance in Boutry’s work. When she mentions her interest in Édouard Vuillard or Pierre Bonnard, she particularly insists on their using fabrics. In an interview, she says: “In 2003, I was deeply touched by an Édouard Vuillard exhibition: the wallpaper, the couch, the curtains. Women are dressed in dresses with similar patterns. I wondered why he remained at this stage without ever going towards abstraction .” In Boutry’s work, abstraction becomes a motive for the creation of new painting objects. In order to build her visual world, she looks at paintings but also at clothes shops and wallpapers; anything from which she can extract some reality to better shift it. For her, going to abstraction is to systematize, focusing the looker’s gaze on one single place, to only keep that piece of fabric or the wallpaper in a Vuillard painting, on the tablecloth in a Bonnard painting.
Through all these references, Élodie Boutry takes a very sensitive stand on the question of “ornamental”. Here, the word “ornamental” is meant in its literal and political meaning used by Matisse - and other 20th Century painters - as repetition of the same pattern, but also as excess and absence of organisation into a hierarchy between the work of art in itself and its frame. Leaving the actual painting behind, Boutry integrates and organises different environments: her position is really situated on a thread, where anything could topple over on the ornamental side if her paintings, lined with bright colours, did not create such subtle discontinuities towards its base. Besides, every time she creates geometrical shapes perfectly independent from bases from the real world, she creates an obvious gap towards it - the real world. At the same time, these works of art are perfectly practical. Their strong physical existence, their materiality itself sets them in space. The humour, also very present, add to their strength. These pieces become places where systems sometimes become unsettled, sometimes follow their logic - unruffled as obstacles stand in their way.
Élodie Boutry’s work is made of a vast visual game, a field to be experimented, a kinetic base but also an haptic object: its outgrowths are elements to be caught, up which one would like to climb. In 3D, these paintings are each time like an invitation to look up, to bend over: its colour goes through our gaze, clouded by mathematically biased games.
-
-
-
-
Red Night
Opening : 2013-02-28
Opentime : 18:00
location : Cheongju Art Studio
Date : 2013-02-28~2013-03-10
Content : Red Night
The ideology and the violence of a nation would be accustomed to people as time goes by after the first encounter with uncomfortable and heterogenous feeling. Also, most of them will not recognise the hidden truth by the power of the nation. It seems that the freedom is given for us but just restricted activities forced by the wavelength of coercion and yoke could be given. I only feel that I stand in the middle of the world when I realise that I am a person, one of the crowd, being in the wavelength which is converted by the sound of power but having friction against the power. Yoon Dong Hee
-
-
-
-
Suuri Maruyama : How to go
Opening : 2012-07-18
Opentime : 18:00
location : Cheongju Art Studio
Date : 2012-07-04~2012-07-18
Content :
http://kuma-kyoudai.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DIrnhcQMXrs
-
-
-
-
Helen Chung Lee : Sepia Dreams
Opening : 2012-03-14
Opentime : 18:00
location : Cheongju Art Studio
Date : 2012-03-14~2012-03-25
Content : Helen Chung Lee collects the shapes of nature from coincidental objects. She focuses on the parts of nature with clear layers of time, such as the inside of abalone shells that are smooth and shiny. In this small object, she captures the landscape of expanded world. As a Photography major, she discovers colorful and mysterious landscapes in abalone shells and takes photographs of them to convert them to paintings. She prints the photographs on photographic paper called Lazertran that is peeled off underwater. The peeled images are carefully transferred onto a canvas. The transferred images are glued by gel medium and converted into permanent paintings with acrylic paint. In this process, the landscapes of close-up objects become an unknown world filled with the movement of time and the faces of reality and surrealism, such as the eternity and dreams. This world resembles a space in reality with mountains, waters, and people, but it is more serene and immersed. Through this world, she shows the entire nature with a small part of the abalone shell and the time and space of a daydreamer where the past, present, and future of nature exist with dreams.
-
-
-
-
Anna Han : agent Orange
Opening : 2012-02-03 fri
Opentime : 6:00 pm
location : Cheongju Art Studio
Date : 2012-02-01~2012-02-12
Content :
The color orange represents power, healing, creativity, endurance, and encouragement. Kate Smith, http://www.squidoo.com/allaboutorange It also helps when you want to become more involved in something and provides relief from things becoming too serious.
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
Agent Orange at Cheongju Art Studio, comes at the start of the year 2012, and focuses on the warm color of orange, which characterizes curiosity and the exploration of new things. Orange stimulates activity, appetite, and encourages socialization. For Agent Orange the gallery space will be occupied by this color; its physicality will be emphasized with soft felt surfaces and tight threads that create geometric form. In this time of social and seasonal coldness, I would like to share the healing, encouragement, and warmth of the color orange with the audience. / Anna Han
-
-
-
-
Jeff Grant : ETIOLATED CREATION
Opening : 2012-01-15
Opentime : 18:00
location :
Date : 2012-01-04~2012-01-15
Content :
Artist Statement / My work is untrustworthy but honest. It is a study in the co-existence of determined facts and shifting, ambiguous definitions. Solidity is literally and figuratively undermined. In general, my work deals with the co-existence of determined facts and shifting definitions inherent in or applied to familiar images and forms. For me, anything solid, specific and precisely defined is, at the same time, fragile and elusive. These are qualities inextricably intertwined. I work with objects and images that are familiar andtake advantage of restrictions presented in these materials. As well, I like to impose my own restrictions and alterations on those. It is in the limitations of the materials that I find the precise spot for un-defining a thing. Memory is simultaneous to the material nature of anything familiar. Through sculpture, drawing, installationsand video I manipulate form and ideas of materiality as well as their connection to remembered experiences. Haunted and understated my work stands as a series of precisely ambiguous and shifting gestures. It is characterized by exaggerated assertions and subtle contradictions, and ultimately, not to be trusted./ Jeff Grant
-









COPYLIGHT 2007 CHEONGJU ART STUDIO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FOR MORE INFMATION SEND E-MAIL TO WEBM ASTER