Press release

A Group Exhibition of Korean Artists

Sporadic Positioning

Period | Thursday, April 26th – Sunday, June 10th, 2012

Venue | Arario Gallery Cheonan

Artist | Eight artists including Hyounsoo Kyung

Works | 42 pieces including paintings, videos and sculptures

Opening Reception | 6pm, Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Arario Gallery Cheonan is pleased to present Sporadic Positioning, a group exhibition of

eight actively practicing artists in Korea, from April 26th

to June 10th

, 2012.

Sporadic Positioning is a group exhibition presenting works by eight young Korean artists.

The term ‘positioning’ from the title signifies re-establishing the comprehensive hypothetical

images that derive from conventional notions of an actual specific subject, into properties that

are distinguishably characteristic of that specific subject. Rather than acting upon a subject,

positioning is about ‘situating’ the subject in the minds of the viewer. In the exhibition, eight

artists continue to re-establish their positions as an artist in the art world. Repeatedly

gathering and dispersing, and exchanging and severing, positioning in the works by eight

artists thus reflect the sporadic and arbitrary topography of art in Korea.

Through a total of 42 works of sculpture, painting, video and installation presenting diverse

aesthetic approaches of eight artists, Sporadic Positioning provides the opportunity to assess

the extensive range of artistic outlooks in Korea. Furthermore, the various positioning of the

eight artists encourages the audience to reflect on the current Korean art world at large from

an analytical, expansive perspective.

Participating Artists

Hyounsoo Kyung b.1969

Song, Myungjin b.1973

Yongseok Oh b.1976

Lee, Eunsil b.1983

Chung, Soyoung b.1979

Jung, Song b.1985

Ha, Jiin b.1989

Hong, Sooyeon b.1967

Individual Artist Info

Hyounsoo Kyung b. 1969

Hyounsoo Kyung works on drawings and installations that reconstructs the urban space through

objective data and memories. He connects the lines that appear on maps and signs that indicate

specific objects in order to describe the cities we live in. In this process, Hyounsoo Kyung focuses on

the visual elements that show in the map, abstracting and symbolizing them in his own way, and

reproduces them on flat surfaces and cubic space. By crossing over among reality, the cartographic

space, and the signs he created, he shows the relationship between the plastic world that can never

signify anything, eternally.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Debris, Art+Lounge Dibang, Seoul

2006 Map in space, Gallery Factory, Seoul

2004 Untitled_2004, Small Space One, Seoul

Hyounsoo Kyung_Debris Gyeongbu Expressway_2012_Acrylic on canvas_145x97x5cm

Song, Myungjin b. 1973

The works of Myungjin Song, instigating curiosity by leaving powerful green imprints on our retina,

departs from two conflicting borderline positions. She tries to define the impressions of things that are

ambiguous, indefinable, or things that defy categorization; she tells us about the duality of human

beings, and the insecurity of borderline positions on which they rest. The narrative of unfamiliar

natural objects in the painting, giving rise to a sense of alienation in conjunction with the finger men

who wander about, shows the fractions and procedures of his thinking.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Being in Folding, Ctrl Gallery, Houston

2009 Fishing on the Flat, Gallery Artside, Beijing

Fishing on the Flat, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul

2007 Green Home, Gallery Rho, Seoul

Green Home, The National Art Studio, Goyang

Song, Myungjin_Folding Surface 2_2010_Acrylic on canvas_150x150x2.5cm

Yongseok Oh b. 1976

The photographs and images Youngseok Oh creates comprise a consistent whole, created through a potential

cosmos that links them together. However, what he aims to accomplish, is not weaving out order among

completely different or similar things, but the impressions of scenes that cannot be clearly identified, although

the relations among each image may remain within the realm of cognition. Therefore, Oh’s works cannot be

read in the conventional sense, but the interlinkage among the images constituting the photograph-images could

be understood. The identity of this particular relation stays indeterminate. What the viewers perceive is an

unclear impression, tenuous yet tenacious – a clear cut clue for the narrative evades illumination. It is merely a

synthetic landscape that straddles both photography and image, or narration and its contrary.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Square and Square, Federation Square, Melbourne

2010 Classic, Gallery Hyundai 16 bungee, Seoul

2005 New Artist: Drama, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul

Yongseok Oh_Drama No. 6_2011_Two channel video_Looped random

Lee, Eunsil b. 1983

The works of Eunsil Lee, which describe sexual or other stimulating situations in amazing detail that verges on

discomfort on the part of the viewers, conveys the nuance through ambiguous hues based on aggressive yet

oriental techniques. Dealing with provocative, taboo subjects, lee’s works push the viewers to make

uncomfortable encounters with the images, but the fuzzy screen allows the reviewers to retain a sense of

distance from the actual objects of description.

Also, traditional architectural space serves as a key motif in her work. The architectural structure in the screen

consists of a surreal construct that refuses to either stay open or closed; it is almost like a door to various other

worlds. The ceiling is pierced open, and the floor is nothing but thin air. These ambiguous boundaries between

the doors simulate the thoughts of artists who are held prisoner within a fence without even realizing their

captivation.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Peripheral Youth , Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul

2009 Neutral Space, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul

Lee, Eunsil_Formal House_2010_Colors and ink on Korean paper_179x244x3cm

Chung, Soyoung b. 1979

Chung Soyoung, born in Paris, France, and a graduate of l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des

Beaux-Arts of Paris, has been working at both Seoul and Paris since 2006. Chung, working on sculpture

installations that attempt to invert existing notions of space, constantly features new virtual spaces in which past

and present fuse together, using countless stories that bloom and disappear in objects that are deconstructed and

reorganized, buildings built and torn down. Her works, originating from her curiosity about and observation of

nature, urban sceneries and the physical phenomena that take place within such spaces, can be seen as a

psychological and philosophical approach to the physical force of nature, transformation, friction, crystallization,

gravity and dissolution. She captures the third kind of space between nature and the artificial that does not exist

in reality through her spatial experiments that cross over fields such as science, geography, architecture, and

visual art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 On the Ground Floor of Geology Building, OCI Art Museum, Seoul

2008 Zero Construction, Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul

2007 A Different Kind of Tension, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

2006 Innerscape, Gallery Miss China Beauty, Paris

Chung, Soyoung _Uncompleted Fragments III, Under Construction_2012_Mixed media_Dimensions variable

Jung, Song b. 1985

Song Jung symbolically presents incommunicable sentiments that originate from his own experiences and

memories through the color black. His drawing <Black Banana>, which indicates a blackened yet inwardly

yellow banana, refers to Asians who emulate and imitate the sensibilities of African Americans. His works come

from thoughts on originality and taste. In relation to African American hip-hop culture, which is said to be “the

only original culture” that came from the U.S., he mingles his experience in and obsession with black, reflecting

his days growing up in Korea. Like a banana, festering, exuding dark and sticky juice as its blackened spots

grow larger and larger, positive choices that aim for survival gradually turns into a negative tool that fetters its

own self. The particular feeling towards black, coming from a very personal taste, signifies forced, unconscious

sacrifices and endurance to the artist, weighing him down; hip-hop and black serves as a ‘self-restraining device’

to the artist, rather than a shield or haven.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Pinpoint, TJH Gallery, Seoul

2004 SODA Project II , Kim.Jinhye Gallery, Seoul

2003 SODA Project I, Alternative Space Thierplace, Seoul

Jung, Song_Black Banana_2011_Mixed media_Dimensions variable

Ha, Jiin b. 1989

Jiin Ha’s works are explorations of self and existence, delivered through the symbol of solitude and loneliness of

islands. In this process, Ha seeks out her location at the borderlands of her own identity as recognized by others

and her own self, and draws out her very own island of perfection. To Ha, individuals are floating islands, where

she attempts to speak not of loneliness, but aloneness, as a philosopher Osho Rajneesh envisions it – it is a

reference to one’s own being.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 MIX, Is Not Gallery, Seoul

2007 Human, Baum Art Gallery, Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 3+1=EXHIBITION, Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong

2010 Eight Olds, B105 Gallery, Seoul

2006 Ssodah Project-4, Kim Jin Hyae Gallery, Seoul

Ha, Jiin_Island_2011_Gouache on canvas_91x117x3cm

Hong, Sooyeon b. 1967

Her works consist of drawings and paintings expressed in the subtle and delicate nuance of black and white.

What catches our eyes in her works, is their simplicity and clarity. However, her pieces show the object’s section

through overlaps, based on meticulous plans and intention. Also, her works have precise and bold scopes of

color. The forms are abstract, but the harmonization of the colors represents her own, organized style. She

selects common forms and images, and puts them in a formation that is neither arbitrary nor causally connected.

Realizing an outstanding sense of balance, she amplifies the implication that something important is going on,

through peculiar combinations of forms.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Ryu Gallery, Seoul

2010 Plant Gallery, Seoul

2009 Artwall Gallery-Shinsegye Dept., Seoul

The Room, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2007 Bundo Gallery, Daegu

Hong, Sooyeon_Still Life in Space#2_2010_Acrylic on canvas_110x210x4cm

Arario Gallery Installation View

Image courtesy of the Artist and Arario gallery

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