portraits: 도기종, 이제, 정주영

The three artists participating in the Portraits exhibition show portraits that are not light, taking in the scenes that seem to pass by in everyday life, of themselves, people around them, and sometimes even the audience.

 

Jeong Juyoung's works Bukhansan and Achasan allow you to feel with your skin the exact temperature and time of day at that time. For the past 10 years, Jeong has been enlarging some of the paintings of historical masters (Kim Hongdo, Jeong Seon), and has also visited the places where they actually painted and painted actual scenes. Jeong’s oil paintings, which are like ink-and-wash paintings, radiate tremendous energy.

 

Do Gijong actively reflects the changes in the fragmented urban living system with images that seem to have captured the flow of daily life in a moment. By focusing on the inner portraits of the static characters that appear in the images, Do depicts the view of time revealed in the city's daily life and the view of humanity in society.

 

Lee Je depicts familiar spaces in a watercolor-like atmosphere that excludes black. The scenes seen from the living space are a projection of an individual's daily life and penetrate the perceived synesthetic world. Lee reveals signs of a spatial experience that reconstructs surrounding objects by looking at them with the body and eyes, as if they are shallowly seeping onto the canvas.