Allegoria
2023. 11. 11 - 12. 17
์ํธ์คํ์ด์ค ํธํ๋ 11์ 11์ผ๋ถํฐ 12์ 17์ผ๊น์ง ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ์์ฅํ์ ใAct 3. Allegoria-๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์๋ ๊ฒใ์ ๊ฐ์ตํ๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ ์๋ ํธ๋ฐ๋ฌธํ์ฌ๋จ์ ๋ค์ํ ์ปฌ๋ ์
์ ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ ์๋ก, ์ธ๋ฌผ, ํ๊ฒฝ, ํ์ ๋ฑ ๋์์ ๋ณธ์ง์ ์ฌํด์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์กฐํ ์ธ์ด๋ก ๋ณ์ฃผํ์ฌ ๋ค์ธต์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ ํํ ์ํ๋ค๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋์ด ์๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ ์์์๋ Caroline Walker, Derek Fordjour, Ding Yi, Friedrich Kunath, George Condo, Hilary Pecis, Jason Fox, Mel Bochner, Rashid Johnson, Sterling Ruby, ๋ฌธ์ฐฝ๋ฐฐ, ํ๋ณด๋ฆฌ, ํ์ฑ์ค ์ด 13์ธ์ ์ํ 15์ ์ ๋ง๋ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค.
์ด๋ฒ ์ ์์์๋ 2000๋
๋ ์ดํ ํฌ์คํธ ๋ชจ๋๋์ฆ ํํ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ก ์๊ฐ๋๋ค. ํนํ, ์์ฐ๊ณผ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋จ์ํ ์์ฌ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ์ฌํํ ์ํ๋ค์ด ์๋, ์๊ฐ๋ง์ ์๋ก์ด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ์ง๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ ๊ทผํด ์ฃผ๊ด์ ์ธ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ํ ์ํ๋ค์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋์๋ค. ํ๋ ๋๋ฆญ ์ฟ ๋์ค(Friderich Kunath)์ <Wake Up and Dream>์ ์์ ์ ์ธ ํ๊ฒฝ ์ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์ ๋๋ฌผ, ๋งํ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ, ํ
์คํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์
ํ์ฌ ์๋ก์ด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌํ๋ ๋์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆผ, ๋ถ์ ๋ฑ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์น ์๊ฒ ํ์ด๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ์์ ์์ ์ผ์์ ์ธ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ํ์ ํด์ฒดํ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์์ ์ ์์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ์ํ๋ ์๋ค. ๋ฐ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์พํ ๋๋์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋จ๋ถ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ํฌ์ฐฉํด ๋ค์ฑ๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ธฐํํ์ ํจํด์ผ๋ก ์นํํด ํน์ ์ค๋ธ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์นํ๋ ํ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ํ์์ค(Hilary Pecis)๋ <Courtyard>๋ฅผ ํตํด์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ด๊ธด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๊ธฐ์ต๊ณผ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํํํ๋ค.
๋ํ, ์๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๊ฐ๋
์ ์ค๋ช
ํ๋ ์๋จ์ผ๋ก ํน์ ํจํด์ ๋ชจํฐ๋ธ๋ ์ธ์ด๋ฅผ ํํ์ ํ์์ ์ ๋ชฉ์ํจ ์ํ๋ค๋ ์ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๋
๋ฏธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฉ ๋ณดํฌ๋(Mel Bochner)๋ <HA HA HA>๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ฐ๋ณต์ ์ธ ํ์์ ์์ฑ์ด ํ
์คํธ๋ฅผ ํํ์ ํ์๊ณผ ์ค์ฒฉํด ํ
์คํธ์ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋ ์กฐํ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฉด ์์ ํํํ๋ค. ์ฌํ, ์ ์น์ ๊ดํ ์๊ฐ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์ฌ์๊ณผ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ด์๋ด๋ ๋งค๊ฐ์ฒด์ธ ์ญ์ ๋ฌด๋ฌ์ ๋์ด์ ํตํด ์ถ์ํํ์ฃผ์๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ด๋ก ์ ๋๋๋ ๋ฉ ์ด(Ding Yi)๋ <Appearances of Crosses>๋ ์บ๋ฒ์ค์ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ตฌํํ๋ค. ์ด์ธ์๋ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ฉํด ํํํ ์ํ๋ค๋ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ง๋ค. ์์๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ณํ๋ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ๋ณตํฉ์ ์ธ ๋ด๋ฉด๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ค๋ฉด์ ์ผ๋ก ํด์ํด, ์๊ณก๋๊ณ ํด์ฒด๋ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ ์ด์์ ํํํ ์กฐ์ง ์ฝ๋(George Condo)์ <French Maid with Red Hair>, ๋ชจ๋๋์ฆ๊ณผ ์ ํ์ ์์ง์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์๊ธฐ ํฌ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์์ ์กด์ฌ๋ค๋ก ์๊ฐ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ์์ ํ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฉ์ ํํํ ์ ์ด์จ ํญ์ค(Jason Fox)์ <Back Yard>์ <Death Live in Concert>, ํ์ง, ์ ๋ฌธ ๋ฐ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํด ์ฝ๋ผ์ฃผ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ๋งค์ฒด๋ก ๋ค์ฑ๋ก์ด ํ๋ฉด์ ์ง๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ญ๋์ ์ธ ํผ์ฌ์ฒด์ ํ์๋ก ํ๋ฉด ์ ์ถฉ๋์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ค์ธต์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ธ ๋ฐ๋ ํฌ์ ธ(Derek Fordjour)์ <Single Pivot Turn>์ ๊ด๋์์ ์์๋ ฅ์ ์๊ทนํ๊ณ ์ํ ์ ๋ดํฌํ๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ ์ถํ๊ฒ ํ๋ค.
์ ์๋ช
‘์๋ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์’(Allegoria)๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ(allos)๊ณผ ๋งํ๊ธฐ(agoreuo)๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด๊ฐ ํฉ์ฑ๋์ด ‘๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋งํ๊ธฐ’๋ฅผ ๋ปํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ด์ด๋ค. ์ฆ, ๋ณธ๋์ ๋ป์ ์ง์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋นํ์ด ๋งํ๊ณ , ์์ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋ ์ํ๋ค์ ๊ณตํต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ํ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํํธํํด ์ฌ๋ฌ ์์๋ฅผ ์์ฌ์ ์ฅ์น๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํด ํ๋ฉด์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ก ํํํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฉด์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ธ๊ฐ ๋ด๋ฉด๊ณผ ์ฌํ, ๋ฌธํ์ ํ์ค์ ๊ดํ ๋ค์ค์ ์ธ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ดํฌํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ ์์ ์ฌํด์๋ ์ธ๋ฌผ, ํ์, ํ๊ฒฝ, ๋ชจํฐ๋ธ ๋ฑ์ ํตํด ์ถ์์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๋
์ ์ํ ์์ ์๋ํ์ฌ ์๊ฐ๋ง์ ์กฐํ ์ธ์ด๋ก ํ๋ฉด ์์ ์๋กญ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌ๋ธ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค.
๋ณธ ์ ์ ใAct 3 Allegoria-๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์๋ ๊ฒใ์ ๊ธฐํ ์๋๋ ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ํ์ ํตํด ์ผ๋ จ์ ํ์๊ณผ ์ค์ฌ์ ํํ๋ก ๋จ์ํ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋๋ณํ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๋์ด์, ๊ฐ์์ ํด์์ ํตํด ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋งํด์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ๋ณด์๋ ๊ณ ์ ๊ด๋
์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ํํผํด ๋ณด์ด์ง ์๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ค์ ๋ค์๊ธ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ ํน๋ณํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ์ฌํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค. ๋์์ ๊ด๋๊ฐ๋ค ์ค์ค๋ก๊ฐ ์ํ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ฌ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์ด๋ฉด์ ๋ด์ฌํ ๋ค์ธต์ ์ธ ์ฌ์ ์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ณธ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฅํ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ์ ํต๋ก๊ฐ ๋๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
Art Space Hohwa will hold its third collection exhibition, ใAct 3. Allegoria - The Visible and the Invisibleใ, from November 11 to December 17. This exhibition showcases various collections from the Hoban Cultural Foundation, presenting paintings that reinterpret the essence of subjects such as figures, landscapes, and actions into layered meanings through different forms of artistic expression. The exhibition features a total of 15 pieces by 13 artists including Caroline Walker, Derek Fordjour, Ding Yi, Friedrich Kunath, George Condo, Hilary Pecis, Jason Fox, Mel Bochner, Rashid Johnson, Sterling Ruby, Moon Chang-bae, Hur Boree, and Hong Seong-joon.
In the ใAct 3. Allegoria - The Visible and the Invisibleใ, postmodernist paintings since the 2000s are primarily introduced. Especially, the works are not simply reproductions of nature and landscapes as subjects, but are centered around the artist's new imaginative perception, adding subjective thoughts and messages. Friderich Kunath's <Wake Up and Dream> inserts animals, cartoon characters, and text throughout the poetic landscape, providing a new imaginative narrative while cleverly expressing the artist's concerns and thoughts about human emotions such as waiting and anxiety. Meanwhile, there are works that dismantle the framework of everyday landscapes from the artist's perspective, focusing on the very act of observation. Capturing the bright and cheerful ambiance of the American South landscape, Hilary Pecis replaces it with a variety of colors and geometric patterns, placing specific objects in her piece <Courtyard> to metaphorically express the individual memories and identities embedded in the landscape.
Furthermore, the exhibition also presents works that incorporate specific patterns or language motifs as a means to explain the artist's thinking or concepts within the pictorial form. Mel Bochner, a prominent American conceptual artist, overlaps onomatopoeic texts of repetitive forms with pictorial formats in <HA HA HA>, expressing the meaning of the text not as words but as subjects of form on the canvas. Ding Yi, who serves as a medium for expressing the artist's inner visions and thoughts on society and politics, engages in multidimensional discourse through the arrangement of crosses in his work <Appearances of Crosses>, manifesting this process on the canvas through abstract expressionism.
In addition, the exhibition also showcases works that borrow from the image of the human being for expression. George Condo's <French Maid with Red Hair> portrays distorted and deconstructed portraits of figures, interpreting the complex inner world and emotions of ever-changing human beings from multiple perspectives. Jason Fox's <Back Yard> and <Death Live in Concert> fill the canvas with self-projected emotional and visionary beings inspired by modernism and mythical symbols. Using cardboard, newspapers, and pigments in collage techniques, Derek Fordjour's <Single Pivot Turn> creates a collision within the canvas through the dynamic actions of the multifaceted texture and subjects, depicting layered emotions and stimulating the viewer's imagination to infer the meanings embedded within the artwork.
The exhibition title, “Allegoria” is a composite word derived from the Greek words “allos” (different) and “agoreuo” (to speak), meaning “speaking differently.” In other words, it implies not directly revealing the original meaning but rather twisting and implying while revealing another meaning. The works that constitute this exhibition share a common fragmentation of the artist's experiences. Through this, various elements are used as narrative devices to visually express on the surface, while harboring multiple messages about the human psyche and societal and cultural realities beneath the surface. This can be seen as concealing abstract concepts within the artwork through the reinterpretation of figures, actions, landscapes, motifs, etc., from the artist's perspective, and revealing them anew within the canvas through the artist's unique formal language.
The curatorial intent of the exhibition ใAct 3. Allegoria - The Visible and the Invisibleใ aims to provide a special opportunity to transcend conventional fixed notions and rediscover invisible meanings, just as the artists have previously spoken differently through a series of forms and concrete shapes in their works, going beyond the mere representational function of images. Simultaneously, the exhibition intends for viewers not only to capture the visual narratives that surface in the artwork but also to become new avenues for inherently expanding the multilayered reasoning and meanings concealed beneath, thus hoping for a newfound awareness to emerge fundamentally.