CHOONG-HYUN ROH
b. 1970, South KoreaChoong-Hyun Roh skilfully captures the emotional power that landscapes embody, honing his capacity for subtle observation and his mastery of paint to evince the profound truth found in nature. Since beginning his Prosaic Landscape series in 2005, Choong-Hyun Roh’s practice has focused intensely on this commitment to observing nature. Often using photographs of this place as a starting point, Roh departs from painting in a purely realistic manner, instead focusing on how he feels during his walks around the city of Seoul. By filtering his artistic vocabulary through memory, he is able to transcend the specificity of the place, thereby creating unique and powerful works of art that evoke a dreamlike sentiment, as if these places do not exist at all.
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