Untitled Document

JUNG-OUK HONG

Born in 1973 - Lives and works in London

For exhibition, WAYS OF SEEING I, 2010

ARTIST STATEMENT
There are a lot of objects in the world. Sometimes, these objects serve an obvious purpose and sometimes they do not. Moreover, they pass over not to recognize. It is one of reasons that it is very trivial, general and invisible. However, they yet still exist in the world. If they disappear in the world, people are uncomfortable to live or it is impossible that they live in everyday life. Indeed, once many of these objects exist we find it hard to imagine how we survived without them. Also, if their little part give a sarcastic twist to their main point, people are able to feel psychologically strange. In my case, my arts are going to work to have these themes adding psychological and physical parts.

The focus of my works is the underlying basis upon which we develop such objects. Although the world is developing every day, the essential foundations never change and are absolutely requisite for living. Visually, I have chosen to represent this through three basic key components: triangles, circles and squares. They compose all visual formations and thus, they serve a highly important position in the world. In spite of being organic formations (natural formations), they are on the basis of geometric structures. Sometimes, they have illusion surface, sometime, they are veiled. Now, I am adding on irony: not rough but soft, not soft but rough, not bright but beamless, not continuous but discontinuous and not covered but uncovered….

Moreover, it is collaborated with my works that combinations are between the left sides: rational parts and the right sides: emotional parts of human brain. Therefore, I want to express harmonies which have emotional feeling not to recognize to use common parts in everyday life and rational values from my works.

EDUCATION
2009 M.F.A. in Painting, Slade school of fine art, UCL, London, UK
2005 M.F.A. in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2002 B.F.A. in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 'axis', Noam Gallery, Seoul
2005 ': avi-', Gallery pici, Seoul
2003 'ball of line', Gallery LUX, Seoul

GROUP SHOWS
2009 'Bloomberg newcontemporaries 2009', Cornerhouse, Manchester & A Foundation, London
--------'CROSS FIELDS', Korean Cultural Centre, London
--------'Beyond the Line', Gaain Gallery. Seoul
2008 'Parallel', g-spot showroom, London
--------'4482', Bargehouse oxo tower wharf, London
2007 'The Open', King’s Park studio, London
2006 'An event in London', The Plum tree, London
--------'An unsophisticated confession', Noam Gallery, Seoul
2005 'DECAD', Seo Gallery, Seoul
2004 'Time 2004', Gallery pici, Seoul
--------M.F.A. Candidates Thesis Exhibition: 'A study on the mentality of formative arts from a vision and space', Contemporary Museum of Hong-ik University, Seoul
2004 '2004_art seoul', Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
--------The 4th Songeun Grand Art Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2003 'hwa-gi-ai-ai', Jongno gallery, Seoul
2002 'G.P.S 2002 (…where is where…)', Contemporary Museum of Hong-ik University, Seoul

AWARDS
2009 New Contemporaries 2009, London, UK
2004 The 4th Songeun Grand Art award, Seoul, Korea