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MOTIF

The question is simple. ‘Why make Art?’ The question that is impossible to have a complete answer to has neither weight nor obligations. Rather, the question prepares to deal with numerous contexts and affects (情動), while expecting an impossible response. Anyone would be asked the question above, and even if a correct answer cannot be claimed, at least explanations supported by who, what, where, when, why, and how will be belabored. Questions that have how, when, and what rather than ‘why’ open more motifs that bypass the correct answer. Countless explanations overfill the place of the answer’s absence. Perhaps describable meanings may be able to form connecting links if we narrow down the range and discuss through specific subjects. For example, in which trends and worldviews does the general idea of art, as from the question above, filter through? On what grounds does the target asking the motif of art head towards young artists? With secular meanings such as the relevance of the young generation as well as their periodic instability and potential in mind, how would the young generation integrate into art? What would it look like? If the title, ‘young artist’ is still valid, why are they still called ‘young’? 

A motif is diachronic and independent, and at the same time, synchronic and universal. Although the motive for artworks that transpierces the times is primitive and abstract, when restricted to contemporary artists, questions such as the perspective of artworks, social context and events, theory, personal affairs that were crawling ubiquitously, will start to tackle. Motif either throws a clue to the more fundamental question or expands the breadth of discussing contemporary art from the fundamental question.

 

Excerpt from “The Strollers (Flâneurs) that Break through the Bounds on the Ouroboros

Nam Woong l Art Critic

 

Artworks
RohwaJeong
Double

2018

Screen printing on canvas

170 x 180 cm

RohwaJeong
Oblique

2018

Screen printing on canvas

171 x 80 cm

RohwaJeong
Page

2018

Acrylic on wood

53 x 84 x 4 cm ~ 54 x 2 x 41.5 cm

RohwaJeong
Page

2018

Aluminum mosquito net, thread

57 x 64 x 37 cm

RohwaJeong
Folding Screen

2018

Aluminium frames, colored MDF, Mansonia wood, Birch plywood, mirror, hinges, silk screen mesh, screen printing

Dimensions variable

Hejum Bä
Figures of Winter

2018

Acrylic on canvas

70.6 x 100 cm

Hejum Bä
Face

2018

Acrylic on canvas

65.7 x 53 cm

Hejum Bä
Coming the Painterly III

2018

Acrylic on canvas

91.2 x 117 cm

Hejum Bä
Traveling between Stairs

2018

Acrylic on canvas

130.3 x 130.3 cm

Hejum Bä
Clavier

2018

Acrylic on canvas

80.3 x 130.3 cm

Hejum Bä
Momentum of the Bow

2018

Acrylic on canvas

145.5 x 162.2 cm

Jeongsu Woo
PD_1

2018

Pen on paper

21 x 14.8 cm

Jeongsu Woo
PD_2

2018

Pen on paper

21 x 14.8 cm

Jeongsu Woo
PD_3

2018

Pen on paper

21 x 14.8 cm

Jeongsu Woo
PD_4

2018

Pen on paper

21 x 14.8 cm

Jeongsu Woo
Protagonist_Rose Pink 1

2018

Acrylic, ink on canvas

116.8 x 80.3 cm

Jeongsu Woo
Protagonist_Rose Pink 2

2018

Acrylic, ink on canvas

116.8 x 91 cm

Jeongsu Woo
Protagonist_Rose Pink 3

2018

Acrylic, ink on canvas

200 x 300 cm

Jeongsu Woo
Protagonist_ Smile 1

2018

Acrylic, ink stick, ink on canvas

162.2 x 130.3 cm

Jeongsu Woo
Protagonist_Smile 3

2018

Acrylic, ink on canvas

72.7 x 53 cm

Eunsae Lee
Eye Rubber

2017

Oil on canvas

193.9 x 260.6 cm

Eunsae Lee
Come Closer

2018

Oil on canvas

116.7 x 90.9 cm

Eunsae Lee
Staring Eyes

2018

Oil on canvas

90.9 x 116.7 cm

Eunsae Lee
Staring Woman

2018

Oil on canvas

40.9 x 33.3 cm

Eunsae Lee
Shooter

2017

Oil on canvas

33.3 x 40.9 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 12

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 14

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 18

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 20

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 22

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 23

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 24

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 27

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 28

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 30

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 101

2018

Oil on canvas

182 x 182 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 102

2018

Oil on canvas

182 x 182 cm

Heejoon Lee
A Shape of Taste No. 104

2018

Oil on canvas

182 x 182 cm

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