A dog

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.