Jang Jaemin
Artist Jang Jaemin's work is dominated by the dark landscape of a city or village seen through trees and thickets. Huge trees, they are an image of the state in which the landscape is being dismantled and reorganized. In an instant, the world seems to have changed to a subtle but completely different one. The image is moist with thick paint, dark and damp colors and heavy brush strokes. It is far from bright and cheerful. It's like a typhoon passing by. It is a landscape tainted with all kinds of filth. His images belong to olfactory senses rather than sight. His landscapes contain a damp and strange smell mixed with humidity. It mixes and fuses with the object like an organism. The entire canvas forms a group, a colony, of one gigantic creature. The gaze moves through the dense forest like a body made of damp slime. It resembles the sense of amphibians or reptiles capturing and observing objects. They feel the world with their skin and their whole body. It is an image of a world of unknown things, intertwined in daily life, unidentified relationships and lumps.
Jang Jaemin (b.1984)
2011 B.F.A. in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Lost in Time, Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Paintings-all the windows to the world, Blume Museum of Contemporary Art, Paju
2015 Our Awesome Moments, HITE Collection, Seoul
2014 Asia Independent Art, Gimhae Arts and Sports Center, Gimhae
2014 The Great Artist, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul
2014 The 36th JoongAng FineArts Prize, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2013 More Space, 2013 OnGoing Artist Incubating Exhibition Program, OpenSpace Bae, Busan
2013 Emerging Artists, Bank of Korea Gallery, Seoul
2012 The Memory You Moved, GS The Street, Seoul
Awards
2014 The 36th JoongAng FineArts Prize