Art salon de H
Le courant de la vie 의식의 흐름
2024.11.5. _ 2024.12.7
Kim Sibo, Hong Hyunjoo Duo show
The exhibition title Le courant de la vie ("The Flow of Life (Consciousness)") evokes the constant change and movement of existence. It reflects the way thoughts and the unconscious flow, while also illustrating how personal experiences within the flow of society, nature, and time can bring about changes in thought and action.
The flow of life (consciousness) is also a personal journey that records the moments when we encounter obstacles, joy, sorrow, reflection, and discovery.
This exhibition follows the flow of life (consciousness) of the artists Hong Hyun Joo and Kim Si Bo, who have lived and worked in France for over 30 years after leaving Korea. It traces how they have manifested their thoughts and inner worlds into sensory colors and forms on the canvas.
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Having lived in France for over 30 years after leaving Korea, the artist states, "Biologically, I possess a 'genetic archetype,' but in cultural, ecological, and social terms, I am a 'chimera' that has evolved in different cultural ecosystems." The source of his inspiration lies in the cultural diversity he has cultivated by moving between Korea and France.
His works employ expressionistic techniques, exaggerating or distorting colors and forms to reveal the emotions or psychological states of the figures. In this process, realistic elements and distorted expressions coexist, allowing the viewer to experience both simultaneously. The ambiguity of space, the modern liberation of color, and the coexistence of abstraction and figuration within the same canvas appear to be present.
The actions and forms of the figures in his works express an instinctive desire to break free from suppressed emotions, seeking to represent the "existential self." The norms that follow universal values are fluid and vary according to culture and era. The background and figures of his works exist in different times and places, and the way these images are combined (dépaysement) raises questions about the uncertainty of social norms.
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A graduate of the Fine Arts Department at Dongguk University in Seoul, Hyun Joo Hong is a painter and printmaker who arrived in France in 1989.
In Hyun Joo's artistic language, there is an expression of the daily experience of time and form. The artist conveys the emotion of the present moment, the sensibility, perception, and appreciation of daily life. For Hyun Joo, painting and printmaking are "a personal diary," a space where she meets her inner thoughts, which she attempts to understand through spontaneous gestures on the canvas. The exaltation of geometric form is at the heart of her work. The artist invites us to explore a duality of emotions by playing with warm and cool colors, lines, and points that meet but never merge.
Whether through painting or printmaking, Hyun Joo's structured forms roam freely across the canvas. Between the dynamism of the lines and the serenity of the colors, her lines seem to dance, escaping the canvas like musical notes in search of elsewhere. The artist creates a language between her works and the viewer, and with a certain poetry, she opens the path to tranquility through the omnipresence of blue. Like silent drops of water, these touches of blue coexist in multiple positions with vibrant color bouquets. The artist expresses in her paintings an intimate relationship with color, where each shade is an invitation to self-exploration. Hyun Joo knows how to harmoniously bring together contradictory emotions, mixing languages in canvases that seek freedom and personal exploration above all.
Text Lisa Lebel - Curator
< I gather the emotions of the moment and shape them into a few forms, rolling them around here and there. I add the colors of life and fill the canvas while telling the story of living, until at some point, too many stories are contained. I try to erase them, and sadness becomes a beautiful blue, joy becomes a warm color, and I collect all the colors that life gives. In the end, it becomes one painting. In this way, my canvas becomes the diary of the day. > - Hong Hyun Joo, Artist's Note
