DMZ Landscape series 2012
DMZ Landscape Series turns restricted or photography-prohibited areas into paintings, These pieces are early paintings of the DMZ series.
The DMZ is a border, also a “buffer zone” established to prevent military clashes, and nobody lives inside the zone. The Republic of Korea is located in East Asia politically and geographically and is a peninsula in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent geographically, and it is surrounded by seas on three sides, we are no different from living on an island. Since it is impossible to pass through North Korea, to go to Eurasia, you have to either avoid the North Korean sky by plane or take a boat.
From DMZ Landscape Series (2012-current) to Crossing-exploring border projects in other countries, it comes into contact with various images, imagination, cultures, and stories. Starting from observations close to me, my movements and environments have opened up other possibilities for creation.
The Border and a Frozen Stream
2012
Tieback, wood frame, oil on canvas
165 x 148 cm
국립현대미술관 미술은행 소장
Collection of MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)Government Art Bank
민간인 통제 구역1 Civilian Control Line1
2012
Tieback, wood frame, oil on canvas
192.2 x 97 cm
The Railroad gone Mt. Geumgang
2012
Tieback, wood frame, oil on canvas
180 x 106 cm
국립현대미술관 미술은행 소장
Collection of MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)Government Art Bank
민간인 통제 구역 Civilian Control Line 2
2012
Oil on canvas
68 x 87 cm
학학 cranes
2012
Oil on canvas
33.3 x 53 cm
한탄강과 두 다리 Hantan river and two bridges
2014
Oil,oriental ink,gesso on linen,in four parts
260 x 386 cm
detail of work
Hantan river
2014
Oil,oriental ink,gesso on linen
130.3 x 193.3cm
detail of work
Hantan river
2014
Oil,oriental ink,gesso on linen
130.3 x 193.3cm
playground
2013
Oil on canvas
97 x 130.3cm
detail of work
New bridge
2014
Oil,oriental ink,gesso on linen
130.3 x 193.3cm
detail of work
2014
Old bridge
Oil,oriental ink,gesso on linen
130.3 x 193.3cm
겨울나기 wintering
2013
Oil on canvas
80.3 x 100cm
집터
2013
Oil on linen
130 x 162.2 cm백마고지전적지에서
2013
Oil on canvas
75 x 193.9 cmDMZ Landscape series - 707OP에서 본 금강산 Mt.Geumgang from 707OP
2019
Oil on canvas
193.3x112.1cm
국립현대미술관 정부미술은행 소장
Collection of MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)Government Art Bank
photo by Kim Taedong
에스키스; 707OP에서 본 금강산
Esquisse; Mt. Geumgang from 707OP
2020
Oil on canvas
19.5 x 40 cm
Mt.Geumgang-0506
2019
Pencil on paper
30 x 30cm
Mt.Geumgang-0428
2019
Pencil on paper
30 x 30cm
detail of Mt.Geumgang from 707OP
Photo by Haevan Lee
Research note
WARNING ⛔️ DRAWING
In this area, taking pictures is forbidden, and Access to the front area is prohibited.
통일전망대보다 더 북쪽에 위치한 707op에 방문하였다. 군인이 대형 망원경을 통해 금강산을 확대한 것을 모니터를 통해 보여주며 브리핑하였고, 확대한 금강산에서는 검은 구멍(벙커)이 곳곳에 뚫려있었다. 사진 촬영이 불가능한 금강산의 풍경을 회화로 담아낸 작품이다.
With North Korean 동무 in the contemporary art museum in Moscow, 2018
Forbidden situations in the museum
-touching artworks
-communicating with the north Korean who is looking an artwork of a gun
Exhibition view
@DMZ, CULTURE STATION SEOUL 284 21 Mar - 7 Jul 2019 photo by Kim Taedong
@Pyeongchang Biennale Main Exhibition : The Five moons : Return of the Nameless and Unknown 2017
@Bangkok Art Biennale 2020