JUNGGEUN OH
Junggeun Oh is a Korean artist who works based in Germany. He paints the skies in the cities, showing how the freedom of nature is restrained and how it influences our lives even when we are not aware of it. He says, “In the process of transforming a three-dimensional space into the form of a flat sky, its original functions are lost, and instead, it becomes an artistic material for aesthetic experience.”
The sky in the urban landscapes is not the sky, but just a silhouette of the building. The sky, which mankind has always looked up to, is now filled with skyscrapers and turned into a geometric niche. The three-dimensional image of the city is flattened on his canvas to abstraction by his technique of using light and background. The simplified figure of the sky in intense red and black realizes the “oscillation” between figuration and abstraction, rigidity and lightness in the objects and space. The solid form of each subject turns into a flexible line and the niche of the sky expands to infinity, leading us to a new dimension.
He was the last student of well-renowned Korean modern painter Jang Ukjin, and moved to Germany to start his career in Berlin. In 2009, 100 pieces of his works were displayed in public places in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In January 2012, He was invited as the first Korean artist to hold a solo show at the ‘Museum Night (Lange Nacht der Museen)’, which is one of the largest museum festival in Germany.
Now his works are in the collections of the Beijing Central Academy of Arts, the Sungkok Art Museum, and the National University of Tokyo, Japan. He participated in projects such as ‘Light Festival Berlin, 2006’, ‘United Buddy Bears, Wiesbaden 2006’, ‘Dialog zwischenGerhard RICHTER und Junggeun OH, 2007’, and ‘Kunstprojekt mit KPM, 2008.’
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