Embrace
Min Joung-Ki1981
REAL DMZ PROJECT
Seoul, South Korea
Min Joung-Ki has dealt with the topography of the landscape from his view and the human traces within, through a humanistic introspection. His 1981 work Embrace depicts a scene where a man and a woman, coming across a barbed-wire fence, passionately embrace. The landscape behind the two figures appears somewhat out of joint in terms of iconic logic, but the artist intentionally imitates an immature expression. To him, painting a landscape is not just painting what appears before one’s eyes. It is embodying the special time formed in that space into painting and expressing a historical geography encompassing both past and present.
- Title: Embrace
- Creator: Min Joung-Ki
- Date Created: 1981
- Physical Dimensions: 146×112 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- 작가 정보: Min Joung-Ki (b. 1949, Seoul) has established a unique style by responding sensitively to the cultural devices in daily lives and the city of Seoul, expressing these responses in various forms. The artist began dealing with the subject of mountains as the grounding of our history and our lives after moving to Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi-do in 1987. Instead of participating in state-supported national exhibitions, he worked as one of the founders of the collective Reality and Utterance, rejecting the so-called high art tradition and injecting “banality” into contemporary art in an attempt to bridge the crevice between tradition and modernism. Min participated in the group exhibitions December Exhibition and The Third Group Exhibition in the 1970s and Reality and Utterance Exhibition in the 1980s. Since then, he has held solo exhibitions in major domestic institutions beginning at the Seoul Museum of Art in 1983, followed by ARKO Marronier Museum (2004), Chosun Ilbo Museum (2007), and Keumho Museum (2016). He was awarded the 18th Lee Joong Sup Art Award in 2006.
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