문경원은 [GreenHouse]전에서 기무사 온실과 창경궁 대온실을 소재로 직접 체험하지 못했던 역사와 조우하며 이를 개인의 심리적 풍경으로 담아냅니다. 그동안 숭례문, 서울과 평양, 서울스퀘어, 기무사 등 역사적 유적이나 공공 사이트의 과거와 현재를 개인적인 시점으로 재조망해왔던 작가는, 이번 전시에서 미디어와 설치 등 여러 장르를 두루 섭렵하며 회화 연작을 통해 더 깊어진 작품 세계를 펼쳐보입니다.


2010. 6. 9 - 7. 4

Organized by DoArt
Venue at GALLERY HYUNDAI 신관
Opening reception 2010. 6. 9. 수 5시

현대미술의 현주소를 대표하는 역량있는 작가를 소개해온 <두아트>가 기획하는 이번 문경원 [GreenHouse]전이 오는 6월 9일(수)부터 7월 4일(일)까지 갤러리현대에서 진행됩니다.

문경원은 [GreenHouse]전에서 기무사 온실과 창경궁 대온실을 소재로 직접 체험하지 못했던 역사와 조우하며 이를 개인의 심리적 풍경으로 담아냅니다. 그동안 숭례문, 서울과 평양, 서울스퀘어, 기무사 등 역사적 유적이나 공공 사이트의 과거와 현재를 개인적인 시점으로 재조망해왔던 작가는, 이번 전시에서 미디어와 설치 등 여러 장르를 두루 섭렵하며 회화 연작을 통해 더 깊어진 작품 세계를 펼쳐보입니다.

"영상, 설치, 회화의 차이가 있는 것이 아니다. 나의 작업은 모두 회화를 기반으로 시작된다. 때마다 표현을 위해 선택하는 매체가 다를 뿐이다"라고 말하는 작가는 그간의 작업을 한단계 발전시키는 모습을 보여줍니다.

[GreenHouse]전에서 작가는 망각된 역사의 잔재 '창경궁 대온실'을 소재로 지금, 여기에 대한 질문을 던집니다. 이번 전시는 2009년 국립현대미술관 서울관 신호탄 전에서 선보인, 기무사에 존재했던 온실터를 소재로 한 작품 'Superposition 박제'의 연장선에서 작업한 여러 작품들로 구성됩니다. 빛, 온도, 강수 등을 외부로부터 차단시켜 내부에서 인공적으로 식물을 성장시키는 공간, 온실. 작가는 온실을 통해 작가가 경험한 인공적 상황, 작가가 생각하는 전체적인 사회 시스템을 은유적으로 표현하고자 했습니다.

한층 더 깊어진 문경원의 작품세계를 경험하며, 예술과 일상의 깊이 있는 소통을 모색하는 계기가 되기를 바랍니다.

많은 성원과 관심 부탁드립니다.

감사합니다.

두아트

Kyungwon Moon: GreenHouse at Gallery Hyundai, organized by DoArt

DoArt is pleased to announce its first solo show of the works by a media/installation artist Kyungwon Moon (1969-). The exhibition entitled "GreenHouse" will be held at GALLERY HYUNDAI and showcase diverse range of works including installation, video art, and painting.

"GreenHouse" is Kyungwon Moon's third solo exhibition of recent years, following "Objectified Landscape (2007)" and "Bubble Talk (2008)". If "Objectified Landscape" was an attempt at casting the shell and exposing the live flesh of a landscape that has become so familiar as to become history, "Bubble Talk" was a project that processively observed and recorded a cityscape from the perspective of floating bubbles.

It was at the group exhibition "Beginning of New Era (2009)" held at the former Defense Security Command (DSC) site that Moon discovered a greenhouse as her new view. With the characteristic intensity of DSC as a place, "Beginning of New Era" was naturally a venue-accentuated exhibition. In that DMZ-like place which had originally been home to Sogyeokseo (National Taoist Temple) and Gyujanggak (Royal Library) before turning into the location for DSC and a military general hospital, Moon "luckily" came across on the rooftop of a rundown concrete building a very foreign site – an abandoned greenhouse with an empty shelf for flowerpots. To explain the presence of the mysterious site, she produced a semi-documentary combining fact and imagination; hence the birth of her video art "Superposition (2009)". Through the project, Moon realized the richness of a greenhouse as a site for contemplating the differing perspectives between macro- and micro-history, authorized and unofficia l history, recorded and individual's lost history, fact and imagination.

In other words, through "Superposition" Moon opened her eyes to the geopolitics of a greenhouse as she reconstructed the past and present of DSC, and discovered a way of connecting to history that she did not live. And based on the experience, this time she extended her attention to the Greenhouse at Changgyeonggung (Royal Palace) Palace. If the greenhouse of DSC is a preserved remnant of history that has been entirely unknown to people, that of Changgyeonggung Palace, though was not exempt from the tempest of history, is a greenhouse that has been shared and enjoyed by the public. If the former is another facet of history drawn attention to by its absence, then the latter is remains of history still existent but forgotten by most. Such varying geopolitics of greenhouses is what constitutes the theme of Moon's exhibition.

In the exhibition "GreenHouse", Moon looked at a greenhouse from both the inside and outside, dismantled and reconstructed it, and ultimately created an imaginary version. Her incorporation of a wide range of media and genres of art, including drawing, painting, video, animation, and installation, enabled a progressive, rather than fixed, exploration of the phase and image of a greenhouse. Moon demonstrated that a greenhouse is a singular site where history and reality interlock and that it can be a significant checkpoint in our life; she has had a greenhouse drifting and flickering in our imagination.

Kyungwon Moon was born in Seoul, Korea in 1969. She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. In 1998, she received another M.F.A in California Institute of the Arts, CA, USA and continued to achieve her academic accomplishment with her Ph.D in Visual Communication in Yonsei Graduate School of Communication & Arts in Seoul, Korea. She currently lives and works in Seoul.

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