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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.

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주연 개인전 / THE ONE PIECEOF ART : SILHOUETTE_ZU YEON / 원피스아트, 아트비앤 서울

주연 개인전 / THE ONE PIECEOF ART : SILHOUETTE_ZU YEON / 원피스아트, 아트비앤 서울

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THE ONE PIECE OF ART
SILHOUETTE
ZU YEON

NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 29, 2022

As the fifth project, THE ONE PIECE OF ART presents a new work of the SILHOUETTE: <Scenery Between Boundaries> by artist ZU YEON, a well-known Plamodel artist since the 1990s, from November 29 through December 29 in 2022.  

This work presents a flat painting that contains the process of changing across two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces, such as boundaries and areas, inside and outside, shapes and contours, objects, and shadows.  

For years, ZU YEON has expanded the collected plant images or circular images of objects from monotype engraving work that applies black ink to metal and prints them, building her work world with the concept of "play-play" for various things we face in our daily lives. 


A monotype is a type of engraving in a flat-plate painting in which a flat sheet of metal, glass, or plastic is painted or inked to print. It has a similar method to silkscreen, but the monotype engraving method produced by the prominent artist is a unique engraving method that can even print delicate lines by placing the desired object on an ink-painted metal plate, covering it and pressing it using an engraving press. It can be seen as the charm of monotype engraving that excludes the reproducibility of general engraving and has the unique value of only one, like a canvas painting. Through this exhibition, she develops and builds her new genre of mono painting and shows new challenges that no one has tried through new concepts. 

 

The story shown in the work, away from the artistic meaning, is sometimes a personal experience, inspiration from daily life, and simple symbolic and visual expressions. Objects are arranged with rules as if they inevitably exist. Still, it is also a process selected in the accidental flow of ideas while minimizing the artist's emotions and personality. It is composed of one refined object, restrained and symbolically simplified. The objects on the canvas have vitality and are attractive and sensual. Through this exhibition, a video containing works and work concepts that express various aesthetic senses with visual landscapes that exist between the boundary between shape and abstract concepts was produced.

 

*The video was co-produced by ARTBN X Sparky VC. (The copyright for the video is at ARTBN)

ARTWORKS

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1970

Lives and works in Seoul

 

Education

1995 B.F.A. Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

1998 M.F.A. Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

2013 Ph.D. Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Residency

2006-2007 the 3rdLong-termArtist,GoyangNationalArtStudio

 

Awards

2009 Selected Artist by The monthly Public Art Magazine

2006 Selected Artist by SOMA Museum of Art Drawing Center

1999 Selected Artist at the 21stJoongAng Fine Arts Competition

1998 First Prize at the 24thSeoulContemporaryArtContest

1997 Selected Artist at the 17thKoreaContemporaryPrintCompetition

1996 Selected Artist at the 16thKoreaContemporaryPrintCompetition

1996 Selected Artist at the 18thJoongAng Fine Arts Competition

1995 First Prize at the 5thNewFrontierCompetition

 

Solo Exhibitions

2021 THE BLACK, Gallery OBSCURA, Seoul

2017 Silhouette­Eden, Gallery artbn, Seoul

2016 The Black Garden, Gallery artbn, Seoul

2015 Translation tools, Gallery L, Goyang

2013 Re-Play: Immanent Actuality, Gallery 41, Seoul

2011 Re-Play, GYMproject, Seoul

2007 Dream Plamodel, William Morris Gallery, Heyri

2007 Dream Plamodel, Goyang National Art Studio, Goyang

2005 Plamodel Printmaking, doArt Gallery, Seoul

2004 play together, SADI Window Gallery, Seoul

2002 OO PLAMODEL, doArt Gallery, Seoul

2001 Play, SAGAN Gallery, Seoul

2000 Kim Hyun-sook, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul

 

Group Exhibitions

2021

— DMZ art project Art Hotel ‘Re : Maker’ (Goseong)

2019

— PIECES_SCULPTURE(SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Co-Existence of sameness and difference(Osan Museum of Art, osan)

— Fun Fun Printmaking(Dongduk Art Gallery, seoul)

2017

— Together Peace(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Hwacheon Peace Art_Realism Imagination(Hwacheon Gallery, Hwacheon)

— Let's Play(63 Art Museum, Seoul)

2016

— Spring in Still Life(Gallery AK, Suwon)

2015

— Mindful Mindless(SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul)

— The Treasure Island(Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong)

— Homescape(Lotte Gallery, Anyang, Daejeon, Gwangju )

2014

— Collage Art–Weaving Stories Blending Images(Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan)

— Discovery of everyday life(gallery 147, seoul)

— The third print(Total Museum of Contemporary Art, seoul)

— New Generation & Tradition(Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— The Spring of Yangpyeong(Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong)

2013

— Neverland(Danwon Art Museum, Ansan)

— Garden of Confession(Gwangju Biennale Gallery, Gwangju)

— Healing Ground(SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul)

2012

— Image Reconstitution(Sein Gallery, Seoul)

— Lifeness of Art(Daegu Art Factory, Daegu)

— Jin-Gyeong: The True Landscape(National Museum in Krakow, Poland)

— Printmaking & Communication(Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Plastic days(Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang)

— Light Drwaing for Me 2(Gallery 27, Kaywon School of Art & Design, Uiwang)

— AR FESTIVAL(Pajubookcity Asia Publication Culture & Information Center, Paju)

2011

—Bricoleur of Sensuous(Alive Jincheon Print Making Museum, Jincheon)

—Walking on the Modern Forest Street of ChungJung -Ro!

(Alternative Space Chung Jeong Gak, Seoul)

— Printmaking & Information(Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— 〔Form:像 View:想〕In the Eye of Imagery(Touchart Gallery, Heyri)

— Light Drwaing for Me(Gallery 27, Kaywon School of Art &Design, Uiwang)

2010

— Place(Ewha Art Center, Seoul)

— Suncheon Bay Land Art Project(Suncheon Bay Ecological Park, Suncheon)

— HHEME TIK MIMUS(Kookmin University Museum of Art, Seoul)

— PUBLIC ART NEW HERO FLY IN HEYRI(Touchart Gallery, Heyri)

— Convergence-Korean Prints Now(Williams Tower Gallery & Texas Tech Landmark Arts, U.S.A)

—Tool Tool Tool Print !(Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Art Road 77- With Art, With Artist !(Han Gallery, Heyri)

— A Meeting of Art and Science(Gwacheon National Science Museum, Gwacheon)

— Touch At(Space15, Seoul)

— Dreamaker_ART & TOY(Lotte Avenuel Department Store, Seoul)

— Kim Whan Ki International Art Festival Eco Zone(Kunstraum T27, Berlin, Germany)

2009

— Kim Whan Ki International Art Festival Eco Zone(Iang Gallery, Seoul)

— Kim Whan Ki International Art Festival Eco Zone(Lotte Gallery, Gwangju)

— RoboArt(Bucheon Robopark, Bucheon)

— Variation-Mutation(Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Another Masterpiece(Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan)

2008

— Multiple Art Lovers(Daegu MBC Gallery M, Daegu)

— MoA Vision 1(Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul)

— New Acquisitions 2007(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Printmaking Aesthetic in the Clone Age-Edition(Gyeongnam Museum of Art, Changwon)

— Child at Heart_Purity and Innocence in Korean Art(Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul)

— Very Vary New Year(Kim Jinhye Gallery, Seoul)

2007

— Open Studio 3(The National Art Studio, Goyang)

— Multiple Art Lovers(Daegu MBC Gallery M, Daegu)

— Where Euclid Walked(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Into Drawing 1(SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul)

— PoP & CoN MIX(Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggido)

— Lines in Space(Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan)

— Discovery from material(Chugye University Museum of Art, Seoul)

— 2007 Seoul Contemporary Art Exhibition-Engraving(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Face of Seongnam(Seongnam Arts Center, Bundang)

— Invitation for the Rooms(Godo Gallery, Seoul)

— The Trend of Korean Contemporary Print of 2000's in Russia(Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia)

2006

— Print Spectrum- from plate to digital(Sun Gallery, Seoul)

— SEO + LOVE + MEMORY(Seo Gallery, Seoul)

— Wishful Project(1487, Gwanyang-dong, Dongan-gu, Anyang-city, Gyeonggi-Do, Anyang)

— 2006 Sungnam Living Design Festival(Korea Design Center, Bundang)

— Take a picture of our society(Kookmin University Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Heyri International Print media Arts Festival-from paper to digital(Aokaeru Gallery, Paju)

— A cat exists outside(Bupyeong office building, Incheon)

— New Energy(Sungshin University Museum of Art, Seoul)

2005

— Busan Lotte Art Fair(Lotte Department store, Busan)

— Ansan Media Art(Danwon Art Center, Ansan)

— Traveling Art Museum 2005(National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon)

— Inter-spaces(Ewha Art Center, Seoul)

2004

— KIMI for You(KIMI Art, Seoul)

— Standard Deviation(Ewha Art Center, Seoul)

— Traveling Art Museum 2004(National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon)

— Spirit(KIMI Art, Seoul)

— A Praise for Still Life(Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul)

2003

— Pleasure factory(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— The Color of Korea(Iwate Museum of Art, Japan)

— The Color of Korea(ATC Museum, Japan)

2002

— CHEMICAL ART(Sagan Gallery, Seoul)

— Black & White(Fish Gallery, Seoul)

— The Color of Korea(Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan)

— Supermarket Museum(Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul)

— The Color of Korea(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— Inter Project-symbiosis(Incheon Multi Culture & Art Center, Incheon)

2001

— Command "p"(Sagan Gallery, Seoul)

— LOOP TOP(Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul)

— Print-Today(Lotte Art Gallery, Daejeon & Seoul)

2000

— THRU-THE BOOK(There's Gallery, Seoul)

— Ewha Print(Samsung Plaza Gallery, Bundang)

1999

— Ewha-Action-Vision(Seoul Art Center, Seoul)

— Joong-Ang Fine Arts Competition(Hoam Gallery, Seoul)

1998

— Plus Print(Insa Gallery, Seoul)

— Ewha Print(Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul)

— Seoul Contemporary Art Contest(The Korean culture & Art Foundation Seoul Art Center, Seoul)

1997

— Korea Contemporary Print Competition(The Korean culture & Art Foundation Seoul Art Center, Seoul)

— Plus Print(Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul)

— NEF(Dukwon Gallery, Seoul)

— 952WPG(Insa Gallery, Seoul)

1996

— Korea Contemporary Print Competition(The Korean culture & Art Foundation Seoul Art Center, Seoul)

— Joong-Ang Fine Arts Competition(Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)

— NEF(Insa Gallery, Seoul)

— Plus Print(Ewha Gallery, Seoul)

1995

— New Frontier Competition(Kyongin Gallery, Seoul)

 

Public Collections

Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

Alive Jincheon Print Making Museum, Korea

Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

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