전현선 | 종근당 예술지상

Jeon Hyunsun

Jeon Hyunsun contends that a picture is a memo. The images in the painting, which contain diversity and complexity, are memos, a series of thoughts and meanings. Although it resembles an everyday landscape, it is actually one created by a procession of symbols associated with the artist's consciousness. For the artist, painting is a landscape organized and filled with signs and symbols. The world where circles, triangles, cones, triangular pyramids, and hexagons appear repeatedly and where one used to think it was wholly understood through God's grace or light of reason, or was self-apparent like geometric structures or such perspective, now flickers like a dying candle light, leaving behind a landscape akin to relics of the past era or dead bodies. It seems the artist is searching for a new way of painting by using the forms and traditions of old paintings that have been depleted of life. It reminds one of Greek mythology where Ariadne, who provides the only lifeline to the protagonist, is actually the daughter of King Minos who set up the trap. In a strange world where meaning, signifiers and the signified are lost, painting can offer 'Adriadne's thread' that helps the navigation of solving the big problems man face through the vain, intimate, and private world.

Jeon Hyunsun (b.1989)

MFA; Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul

BFA; Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Forests and Swamps, Weekend, Seoul

2016 Nameless Mountain, leehwaik Gallery, Seoul

2015 The Cone and Conversations, Place MAK, Seoul

2013 Play, Next Door Gallery, Seoul

2012 A Secret Meeting, Gallery b-One, Seoul

2012 Road to Endless Opposites, Next Door Gallery, Seoul

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 A story without a story, Gallery Lux, Seoul