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EXHIBITIONS
Hakgojae Gallery
OH Se-Yeol: The Innocent Eye

Oh Se-Yeol has a solo show which consists only of his portrait paintings. This exhibition encompasses Oh’s major works from every period of his career from the early 1970s to recent years. It can be considered as a sort of ‘portraiture retrospective’ of Oh. His works revolve, besides human figures, around different categories of subjects: first, natural subjects such as flowers, grasses, trees, fruits and vegetables; second, modern conveniences such as cars, ships, bicycles and electric fans or everyday products or accessories such as hats, neckties, glasses, buttons, toys and umbrellas; third, abstract forms such as Arabic numerals, circles, rectangles and spirals.  

These diverse motifs are randomly arranged on the pictorial surfaces as if scribbled. Additionally, a subtle dance of matière is seen in the layers of pigment that the artist constructed carefully on the support. The original sizes of objects are dismissed and unsurprisingly no use of perspective is detected. A certain ‘innocent gaze’ is dominating the picture planes. Consequently, all the natural, manmade and abstract subjects achieve equally independent statuses. In his picture planes, each and every motif is the protagonist, and these protagonists weave simultaneously a chain of stories. At the core of Oh’s painting is present a journey to this very storage of stories or ‘indulgence in memory’.

 

Excerpt from “The Innocent Eye” 

Boggi Kim  l  President, Art In Culture & Professor, Kyonggi University

Artworks
OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

130 x 162 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1984

Mixed media

100 x 100 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1991

Mixed media

73 x 91 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1991

Mixed media

91 x 73 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1987

Mixed media

75.5 x 50 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1998

Mixed media

121 x 45 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2008

Mixed media

27.2 x 81 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1977

Mixed media

63 x 63 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1992

Mixed media

74 x 56 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1992

Mixed media

76 x 55.5 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1977

Mixed media

45 x 45 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

130 x 97 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

117 x 91 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

63 x 73 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1973

Mixed media

46 x 57.5 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1995

Mixed media

60 x 59 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1992

Mixed media

38 x 45.5 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

1990

Mixed media

68 x 48 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

130 x 97 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

116 x 91 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

81 x 130 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2015

Mixed media

73 x 50 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2014

Mixed media

91 x 65 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

130 x 97 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

80 x 130 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

80 x 130 cm

OH Se-Yeol
Untitled

2017

Mixed media

100 x 100 cm

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