A dog
Kong Sung-Hoon2010/2010
REAL DMZ PROJECT
Seoul, South Korea
Kong Sung-Hun mostly created media, photography and installation works in the 1990s, but from 2000 on, he has focused on representational landscape paintings of daily life. A Dog (2010) portrays the winter of Cheorwon. In the painting, a dog lies down on the road in dreary winter, along with traffic signs that point to opposite directions and shadows of people. In the sky, a helicopter transports containers. This piece records the artist’s impressions of the division while travelling in Cheorwon. It appears realistic, but in fact is a virtual landscape. The artist portrays a daily scene in a strange and unfamiliar way, in order to secure a perspective through which we can get a new prospect on the real world.
- Title: A dog
- Creator: Kong Sung-Hoon
- Date Created: 2010/2010
- 작가 정보: Kong Sung-Hun (b. 1965, Incheon) graduated from Department of Painting at Seoul National University and transferred to then Seoul National Industrial University (currently Seoul National University of Science and Technology) to study Electronic Engineering. He majored in Western Painting at graduate school. After his solo exhibition in 2000 at Wooduk Gallery, he has continued making paintings. He has had solo exhibitions at Kumho Museum and OCI Museum of Art, duo exhibitions at Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo, and has participated in many group exhibitions including the Gwangju Biennale and Busan Biennale. He was named Artist of the Year in 2013 by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and SBS. He strives to create paintings not just of beautiful scenes but those that depict ordinary life. He currently teaches at Sungkyunkwan University Department of Art, and his works are part of institutional collections at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, and OCI Museum of Art.
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