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THE ONE PIECE OF ART ?

< THE ONE PIECE OF ART >, organized by ARTBN, is an exhibition-type art project that focuses on a single piece of work by a selected artist and shows the artist's art world in more depth, along with a production video.

신선주 개인전 / THE ONE PIECE OF ART:  SCRATCHER _SHIN SUN JOO / 원피스아트 , 아트비앤 서울

신선주 개인전 / THE ONE PIECE OF ART: SCRATCHER _SHIN SUN JOO / 원피스아트 , 아트비앤 서울

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THE ONE PIECE OF ART
SCRATCHER
SHIN SUN JOO

<Manière-noir : Engine Company 33 - EP>

OCTOBER 22~DECEMBER 04, 2021 

THE ONE PIECE OF ART, planned by ARTBN, is an exhibition-type art project that focuses on a single piece of work by a selected artist and shows the artist's art world in more depth, along with a production video. ARTBN presents SHIN SUN JOO's solo exhibition, <Manière-noir: Engine Company 33 – EP>, as the first exhibition of THE ONE PIECE OF ART, from October 22 through December 4, 2021.

 

The one piece of work to pay attention to is either a work with a special meaning unique to the artist from multiple angles or a substance that was produced in a practical way that has not been attempted for a long time, connecting the world of art and the present in the past rather than the existing work method.

 

As the first project, <SCRATCHER SHIN SUN JOO: Manière-noir: Engine Company 33 – EP> introduces a single piece of work that shows the best essence of the 'method of black tint' (Manière-noir), the most crucial concept in the artist's work. <Engine Company 33> is a work that has been drawn, erased, breathed, and contains the history of another time through the artist's hand for five years.

Scratching

As if traveling, the artist photographs and records the impressive architecture he encounters in cities worldwide. It is not simply fascinated by the splendor of the exterior or the exotic atmosphere, but rather the history and location of the architecture and the recorded time that created social values. The concept of photography is a fundamental essence and starting point in the artist's painting work. The photographed architectural photos are transferred back to the canvas through the artist's eyes, drawing as if drawing a blueprint. By dividing and subdividing the canvas screen, it is recorded in a creative meaning different from the original purpose. The primary material used in the work is oil pastel, which looks hard but has a soft touch and texture, so it is easy to do detailed work. As a tool in place of a brush, she draws lines using a thin awl or wooden spatula, paints over again, and erases repeatedly. The screen filled with oil pastels completes the space in the canvas as if weaving by scratching or scratching. Choosing the oil pastel material is essential to enable this production method.

Violet-tonalité Shades Purple-toned shades

Recently, a symbolic color other than black has appeared, further emphasizing the architecture's meaning in the work or creating an exotic atmosphere. The visual response given by color quickly stimulates our emotions. Purple appears in <Engine Company 33, 2016-2021, 180x180cm, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas>, which shows the best essence of the 'manière-noir,' the most crucial concept in work. The purple shade of the sky behind the exterior of the building in the dark is New York's spring, that spring night sky. Violet skies visually seem to have a rare and mystical nature, a connection to the unknown, the supernatural, and the divine. Unlike the black abstract concept at the center of the work, this expands to an idea that occasionally projects infinite imagination while revealing light and romantic energy. The purple sky, which captures the depth and mood by dividing and showing the subtle boundary with black, seems to symbolize the meaning of the prestige and authority of the building and makes us feel our emotions and the sacredness connected to the entire universe. It also reminds us that there are many great unknowns to explore and gives us a spectrum of spaces to feel wide. The shades of purple (violet-tonalité) purify architecture's grand yet vital energy with feminine delicacy and evoke a place we have never experienced and romantic and robust nostalgia. Looking at the actual history of the building, 'Engine Company 33', also the work's title, it was designed in 1899 by Ernest Flagg (American architect) in the French architectural Beaux-Arts style, including elegant limestone arches and was registered in New York City. It is famous for its monumental architecture. Currently, this building is used as a fire station and is considered a symbol and a local landmark in the history of architecture, not just a functional space. SHIN SUN JOO is not simply reproducing the form of a building, but interpreting it as an object, giving life to history, time, and the value of architectural design, and injecting sensitivity and vitality into the building itself by adding imagination.

Like an EP album, like a mini-album before starting a new work in THE ONE PIECE OF ART, <Engine Company 33>, which has been breathing together since 2016, contains an extraordinary story of an artist that has not been seen before. It is time to meet one piece of art.

ARTWORKS

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

2003 M.F.A., Painting and Photography, Pratt Institute, New York, USA

1997 M.F.A., Painting, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

1995 B.F.A., Painting, Dong-a University, Busan

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 THE ONE PIECE OF ART: SCRATCHER SHIN SUN JOO, Manière-noir : Engine Company 33 - EP 展, ARTBN, Seoul

2021 Manière-noir : Royal Blue, Gallery BK, Seoul

2015 Manière-noir : CORNICE, LIG ART SPACE HANNAM STUDIO L, Seoul


2012 Maniere-noir : RECESSED, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju-si, Kyunggi- do

2012 Maniere-noir : FACASE, Gallery Hyundai Sagandong Window Gallery, Seoul

2011 Maniere-noir: Gray 징[京], 16 bungee, Seoul


2009 Maniere-noir: Beijing Photos, Space Can, Seoul

2009 Maniere-noir Brooklyn, Gallery Hyundai Window Gallery, Seoul

2008 Scratch, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul


2006 Polaroid Portraits, Jinheung Art Hall, Seoul


2005 Portrait-pia, Topohaus Gallery, Seoul


2003 The Byrdcliffe Art Colony Show, Woodstock, New York, USA

2003 Fairleigh Dickinson University College Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA


2002 Multi-portrait, Stueben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, USA

2000 Mezzotinting Painting, Stueben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, USA

1996 The Humanities Art Center, Kettering University (G. M. I.), Michigan, USA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 2021 Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale, Mokpo Culture & Arts Museum, Mokpo-si

2021 The City, Daily life Space of Art & Culture, Gyeonggi Provincial Northen Government, Uijeongbu-si

2020 Open the Memory, 021 Gallery, Daegu


2019 All you need is Love=ART, Gallery Bank, Seoul

2019 Hidden Pictures in Cinema: Movie, Read with Art, Lotte gallery, Youngdeung po, Seoul

2019 Less Is More, The Soda Museum of Art, Hwaseong-si

2018 Beyond Balck, Sueno 339 Gellery, Seoul

2018 Space: Emptiness, Depth, Light, 021 Gallery, Daegu

2017 4 Considering Space, Art Center White Block, Paju

2016  2016 Art Gyunggi-START UP, Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation, Seongnam-si

2016  ‘Not architectural photo but photographic architecture’, THE TEXAS PROJECT, Seoul

2016  ‘Inner Space’, Atelier Aki, Seoul

2016  ‘THERE’, Lina Gallery, Seoul

2015 Paintings : all the windows to the world, Blume Museum of Contemporary Art, Paju


2013 Aesthetics of Sympathy, Share and Coexistence, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju-si, Kyunggi-do

2013 Fragmentary thoughts, LIG ART SPACE

2013 Art of Miracle, AK Gallery, Suwon

2012 Desirable Routine, Gallery Hyundai

2012 Gallery Seoul 12, GALLERIA FORET

2012 Soul of Seoul, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

2011 The 10th Song Eun Art Award Exhibition

2011 draw-iN, Gallery Lux


2010 Do Window Vol.2, Gallery Hyundai

2010 Facing Korea Now, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands


2010 EMERGING ARTISTS PART I - KOREA, MK2 Art Space, Beijing, China


2010 The more, the better, Sun gallery the 33rd Anniversary Exhibition, SUN Art Center

2010 Layered City, ARTSIDE, Beijing, China

2009 Oil's Other Name, YHD Projects


2008 Brooklyn Express-Exposed, Planning & Exhibiting, Kwanhoon Gallery

2006 Japan-Korea Contemporary Art Festival, Gen-min Hall, Yokohama, Japan

2006 MIW, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, USA


2002 Beyond the Gate, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York, USA / Art in General, Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

ARTIST RESIDENCY

2016~2017 Art Cneter White Block Residency Program, Paju

2014 LIG ART SPACE New York Residency Program, New York, USA


2011-13 Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju


2009 P. S. Beijing, Beijing, China


2003 Woodstock A-I-R Program by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, USA

AWARDS

2015 Arts Support Project Selection, Seoul Foundation of Cultural Foundation
2013 Permanent Collection, Seoul Museum
2013 KAP(Korean Artist Project), The Korean Art Museum Association
2012 Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art          
2011 SEMA New Artist Exhibition Support Program, Seoul Museum of Art
2010 10th SongEun Art Awards, SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation
2009 Annual Artists Development Business Fund, Arts Council Korea 

ART FAIRS

Art Busan 2016, Frieze New York(2013), Art Stage Singapore(2012, 2013), ART HK(2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), KIAF, Galleries Art Fair, Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair, Bridge Art Fair etc.

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