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JOONSUNG BAE
The artist
Joonsung explores the essence of perspective while searching for the relevance of art and perspective through traditional media such as painting and photograph. He keeps on questioning on the perspectives from his early works based on the costumes in Western paintings to his recent works of lenticular printing. The significance of his work lies in the consistent examination and broad reinterpretation of the tradition of visual art.
Joonsung Bae borrows images from masterpieces in the history of the Eastern and Western art, and incorporates them into his own inventiveness. The images he borrowed are figure paintings or still lives by such masters as David, Ingres, Corot, Courbet, Van Dyck and Velazquez. He compounds photography and painting reproduction in an effort to interpret anew the major concepts of the Western art history. Bae's in his earlier works reproduced costume painting on clear acrylic film covers parts of naked figure photograph.
The film on which costumes were painted do not completely adhere to the surface of photographs (or canvases), creating a layer which allows for a sense of space and distance. In his work process, he is exploring the "construction of painting," and suggesting that the painting can be a process of forming layers of compound images. His later works introduce the lenticular image; it was adopted to integrate the double layer structure of photographs and acryl film. It enables the audience to see the figure both nude and in costume from different perspectives. It also allows more digital factors in his works than in his previous acryl film works. Bae's work is about veiling and reveiling, about tradition and the present, about painting and photography.
Joonsung Bae was born in Kwangju, Korea (1967) and educated in National University of Seoul. He has exhibited in France, Madrid, Moscow, Art Basel, Brussels, Seoul, etc.
1967 Born in Kwangju, Korea
1990 B.F.A. College of Fine Arts
Seoul National University, Seoul
2000 M.F.A. Graduate School of Seoul National University, Seoul
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
The Museum, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul
The Costume of Painter, Sabina lee gallery, LA
2006
The Costume of Painter, Gallery Touchart
Heyri Art Valley
The Costume of Painter, Avenuel Department Store, Seoul
2005
The Costume of Painter, Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2004
The Costume of Painter, Paik Haeyoung gallery, Seoul
2003
The Costume of Painter-travel with C. Lacroix
Daelim Museum, Seoul
2002
The Costume of Painter, Museum of Beaux-Arts in Tours, France
2000
Naming, Gallery Ihn, Seoul
1997
Naming, Sal Gallery, Seoul
1996
Impression of Books and Paintings, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Wonder Land, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
The Edge of Sensation, Simon gallery, Seoul
SH Contemporary, Shanghai
Art Amsterdam, Gallery Skape, Amsterdam
From Korea, Gallery LM, Seoul
ARCO 07, Madrid
2006
Photo Show 1010 06, Gana Art Center, Seoul
Paris Show 2006, Paris
Art 37 Basel
Now Korea, Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam
May Show, Skape gallery, Seoul
Beijing Art Fair, Beijing
2005
3rd Frieze Art Fair, Regent’s Park, London
Summer Show, PKM Gallery, Seoul
Art36 Basel, Basel
3 days and 7 artists, Skape Gallery, Seoul
15th Anniversary Special Exhibition 86, Kumbo Museum of Art, Seoul
Arco 05, Madrid
The Costume of Painter, Window Gallery-Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul
2004
2nd Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London
Skape, Skape Gallery, Seoul
Extensions, John Chelsea Art Center, New York
Art 35 Basel, Basel
The Armory Show 2004, Pier 92, New York
Atelier Report, Savina Museum, Seoul
2003
Tradition & Innovation, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Moving Still Life, Do Art Gallery, Seoul
Crossing 2003, Korea/Hawaii, The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii
Hiddening/Reaveling, Kwangju Civic Museum, Kwaangju
Art 34 Basel, Basel
2002
Korea Contemporary Art, Korea embassy, Brussels, Belgium
Art33 Basel
Photo Biennale 2002, Moscow
Korea Contemporary Art tradition and innovation II, Museum zollverein halle 6, Essen, Germany, UN Office, Geneva
2001
The eye of Korean Contemporary Art, Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul
Model & Mode, Moscow Museum of Art, Moscow
Come together, art space of Kongdu, Seoul
2000
History of Kangkyung, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon
Arles Photo Festival, Arles Museum, Arles
Sun rise from Eastern Side, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon
Korean figure and landscape, Korean Cultural Center, Paris
1999
Im Jahre des Tigers in Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon
Art festival in May, Chosun Gallery, Seoul
One by One show, Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul
Seoul Photo Festival Seoul Civic Museum, Seoul
1998
Looking at men and women adversely, Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul
In the year of the tiger, Ludwig Form, Achen, Germany
Face of a turning point, the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul
Kangwha Art Studio Open studio, Kangwha Art Studio
1997
Arts and Hand in Modern Society, Sinsegae Gallery, Kwangiu
Young Artists Show, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2nd Kwangju Biennale. Civic Museum, Kwangju
I& am, Eupyung Art Hall, Seoul
AWARDS
1995
Grand Prix, Chung Kyungja Art Culture Foundation, Korea
2000
Young artist Prix, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Korea |
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