MIN JUNGYEON h y b r i d s pac e
This catalogue is published by HADA Contemporary to accompany the exhibition:
MIN JUNGYEON HYBRID SPACE 7 - 29 MARCH 2013 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any mean, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without prior written permission from HADA Contemporary Ltd.
MIN JUNGYEON HYBRID SPACE
HADA Contemporary is pleased to announce the first UK solo exhibition of Min Jungyeon.This exhibition showcases Min’s most recent paintings and drawings of her phantasmoagorical realm. Min Jungyeon explores the grandeur of universe and the existence of human being within by creating unpredictable universe of her own. Min creates unfamiliar clusters of forms suspended in air, which seems to grow into a new hybrid space between reality and fantasy. Intestines and villus like elongated forms diffusing and melting into architectural and unidentifiable somnolent backgrounds are often used to symbolise her flowing idea that spreads like liquid through all of her paintings analogous to the virus. Although the eccentric biomorphic forms of images display strong affinity to surrealist’s paintings from the juxtaposition of incongruent imageries in one space, her interest lays in the oscillation between the thin boundary between reality and illusion challenging our perception through creation of dream like nonexistent world, as Hieronymus Bosch ventured through his uncompromising creative imagination on the canvas. The main characteristic of Min’s works is well-balanced undulation of dichotamic values such as abstraction-realism, inside-outside, two dimension- three dimension, reality-fiction, microscopic-macroscopic, rational-irrational, EastWest among others that aids her to flourish ideas without limits. For example, the ar tist endeavours to reconcile the rational – what can be read and can be seen, where one can recognise what it is, be this a landscape, a person, the architecture where the perspective is – and the irrational - may come in the form of energy around us; it may be invisible, yet it exists. As her abstract compositions with hyperrealistic figures depicts real yet unreal world of her imagination suggests the odd sensation of drifting to and fro both ends of the world. Por traying the ar tist’s continuous conflict and resolution between two identities as a Korean-born Parisian. Min Jungyeon (b. 1979) received MFA in Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Ar ts de Paris and BFA at Hongik University, Seoul. She exhibited extensively internationally at Musée d’Ar t Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Ar t, Kashya Hildebrand, Galerie Maria Lund, Berlin-Fiedrichshain among others. She has been awarded with Prix des Par tenaires du musée d’Ar t Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, SaintEtienne, France (2011), first prize for Concours Centre Culturel pour Jeunes ar tistes Coréens, Paris, France (2004) and third prize in German-Korean Ar tistic Relations Competition, Seoul, Korea (1999)
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Plage | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2013
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Evenement | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2013
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Doute | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 97 cm | 2013
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Jalousie | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2013
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Entract 3 | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2011
Travaux2 | acr ylic canvas | 131 x 130 cm | 2010.
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Tissage acr ylic canvas 97 x 130 cm 2010
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Dialogue (gauche) | ink on paper | 32.7 x 50 cm | 2012
Dialogue (doite) | ink on paper | 32.7 x 50 cm | 2012
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Mousse 2 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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Mousse | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
Mousse blanche 2 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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Suspention | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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Melancolie | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
Mousse destr uctrice | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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Masse 5 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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Tornade silencieuse | ink on paper | 50 x 50 cm | 2012
Masse 4 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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Mousse blanche 4 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012
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MIN JUNGYOEN ( b.1979 )
EDUCATION 2006 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Ar ts de Paris, France 2001 Hongik University, Seoul, Korea SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 HADA Contemporary, London, UK 2011 Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland 2009 Beauté troublante, Grace Kong Gallery, Seoul, Korea Hibernation, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland 2007 Somnolence, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Marecage, IMART Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2006 Passage, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, New York, USA 2005 Amnios, Mille Plateaux Gallery, Paris, France 2004 Aube après la nuit, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Medi(t)ation, Asian Ar t Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Ar ts, Taipei, Taiwan Westparcel, Kunstverein GRAZ, Rogenburg, Germany Westparcel, Altefeuerzache, Berlin-Fiedrichshain, Germany Korean Collective 2011, Galerie Boordeinde / Leonhard Rüthmüller Contemporary, Den Haag, The Netherlands / Basel, Switzerland 2010 G20 Seoul Summit Celebration, Exhibition for Korean Fine Ar t, National Assembly of Korea, Seoul, Korea Neography: Korean Ar tists in Paris, Cite des Ar ts Paris, France Expo de Dessin, Maria Lunde Gallery, Paris, France Korean Collective in London, Albemarle Gallery, London, England ARCO 2010, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Madrid, Spain Neographie, Cite des ar t, Paris, France Hong Kong ar t fair, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2009 Espace des ar ts sans frontieres, Paris, France Expo de printemps, Espace 5 etoiles, Paris, France Ar t Dubai 09, Dubai, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Garden of desire, Daegou KT&G, Daegou, Korea Shanghai ar t fair 2009, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Shanghai, China Asian ar t 2009, Kashya Hildebrand gallery, Miami, USA 2008 Contemporary Korean Ar tists in Paris, Seoul Ar ts Center, Seoul, Korea SH Contemporary 08, Shanghai, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Ar t Dubai 08, Dubai, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Ar t Cologne 08, Cologne, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland 2007 Dreamscapes, Galerie Kashya Hilebrand, Zurich, Switzerland ACAF 07, New York, Galerie Kashya Hilebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Ar t Cologne Palma de Mallorca 07, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Ar t Miami 07, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland Ar t Dubai 07, Dubai, Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Special Year of France – French contemporary ar t, Coex, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary 5, Kong Gallery, Seoul, Korea Petit à petit, Daumesnil 89 Gallery, Paris, France A travers des nouvelle fenetre, Korean OECD, Paris, France Ar t fair 06, Cologne, Germany Kunst 06, Zurich, Switzerland Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland 2005
Overseas Young Korean Ar tists –The Riddle of Style, Seoul Ar t Center, Seoul, Korea
1999
Third prize in German-Korean Ar tistic Relations Competition, Seoul, Korea
AWARDS 2011
Prix des Par tenaires du musée d’Ar t Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole,
2004
First prize “Concours Centre Culturel pour Jeunes ar tistes Coréens”, Paris, France
1999
Third prize in German-Korean Ar tistic Relations Competition, Seoul, Korea
Saint-Etienne, France
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This catalogue is published by HADA Contemporary to accompany the exhibition:
MIN JUNGYEON HYBRID SPACE 7 - 29 MARCH 2013 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any mean, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without prior written permission from HADA Contemporary Ltd.