Goblin Mode


- 2023 -
From May 19th to June 18th

Goblin Mode


2023. 5. 19 - 6. 18 

 

์•„ํŠธ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค ํ˜ธํ™”์˜ ์ „์‹œ ใ€Š๊ณ ๋ธ”๋ฆฐ ๋ชจ๋“œ(Goblin Mode)ใ€‹๋Š” ๋งŒํ™”์  ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋œ ์กฐํ˜•์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์•„ํŠธ๋†ˆ, ์ด์œค์„ฑ, ์ด์€, ๋ฏธ๊ตฌ์—˜์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ์ž์•„๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ–ฅ์ˆ˜(nostalgia)๊นŒ์ง€๋„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚จ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ณง ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค์˜ ๋ณ€์ด ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋”์šฑ ๋‚ฉ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ™”๋ฉด์— ๋“ค๋Ÿฌ๋ถ™์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ขํ˜€์ง„ ๊ด€๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋„“ํ˜€๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์ „์‹œ์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋งŒํ™”๋‚˜ ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์„œ๋ธŒ์ปฌ์ณ์  ๊ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ž…์€ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•  ํŽ˜๋ฅด์†Œ๋‚˜๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์€ ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•จ๊ณผ ๋™์‹œ์— ํƒˆ์ฃผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ธ์‹ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ต๋ž€ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์–‡๊ณ  ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์ŠคํŽ™ํ„ฐํด๋กœ ํ˜ผ์ข…(hybrid)์˜ ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๋„ค ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณธ๋‹ค.


์•„ํŠธ๋†ˆ์€ ์ด์งˆ์ ์ธ ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•œ ํŒ์•„ํŠธ์  ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ํšŒํ™”๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ, ํ”ฝํ† ๊ทธ๋žจํ™”๋œ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ๋„์ƒ๋“ค๋กœ ์žฌํ•ด์„๋œ ๊ฒฝ์พŒํ•œ ๊ณ ์ „๋ช…ํ™”๋Š” ๊ถŒ์œ„์ฃผ์˜๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€์ •์‹ ์˜ ํ˜„ํ˜„์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์œค์„ฑ์€ ์„ฑ๊ฒฝ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์‹ ํ™” ๋“ฑ ์„œ๊ตฌ์˜ ์˜ค๋žœ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ง๊ฐ€(ใƒžใƒณใ‚ฌ)์˜ ํ‘œํ˜„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•œ ํšŒํ™” ๋ฐ ์กฐ๊ฐ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ด์–ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉ”๋‘์‚ฌ์™€ ๋‹ค๋‚˜์— ๋“ฑ ์„œ์–‘๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ณธ์˜ ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ‘๋ชจ์— ์˜์ธํ™”’๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ์ „ํ˜•์„ฑ์„ ํƒˆํ”ผํ•œ ์ œ3์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋กœ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ „์œ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด์€์€ GIF(์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ์งค)์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„์—์„œ ์‹œ์ง€๊ฐ์  ์šด๋™์„ฑ์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํšŒํ™”์  ์›€์ง์ž„์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์†์—์„œ ์˜์›ํžˆ ์›€์ง์ผ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋˜ ์ถ”์–ต์˜ ๋””์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋“ค์„ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๋ฌผ์งˆํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ณผ ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ๊ฐ„๊ทน์„ ์ขํžŒ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตฌ์—˜ ์•™ํ—ฌ ํ‘ธ๋„ค์ฆˆ๋Š” ์นœ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๋งŒํ™” ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์ฒด ๋ฐ ์žฌ์กฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค ์œ„์— ํŒจํ„ดํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์˜จ์ „์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ๋ฌดํ•œ ์ฆ์‹ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ˜•๋˜๊ณ  ๋ณต์ œ๋˜๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๋“ฏ, ์ „์‹œ์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ์ „๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€, ๋™์–‘๊ณผ ์„œ์–‘, ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ๊ณผ ์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ, ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๊ณผ ์ฐจ์ด ๋“ฑ ์ด์ข…๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์„ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋กœ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ด ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋šซ๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค. 


์ „์‹œ๋ช… '๊ณ ๋ธ”๋ฆฐ ๋ชจ๋“œ'๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ทœ๋ฒ”์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ป”๋ป”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž์œ ๋ถ„๋ฐฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋œปํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ์กฐ์–ด๋‹ค. ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™” ์ดํ›„ ์ผ์ƒ ํšŒ๊ท€๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ณ„์ข…๋“ค์„ ์ผ์ปซ๋Š” ๋ฐ์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ์ด ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์ •์˜๊ฐ€ ํ™•์žฅ๋˜์–ด, ์ „๋ณต์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€์ •์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฝํžˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋™์‹œ๋Œ€์  ์›€์ง์ž„๊ณผ ๊ถค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ™์ดํ•œ๋‹ค. ใ€Š๊ณ ๋ธ”๋ฆฐ ๋ชจ๋“œ(Goblin Mode)ใ€‹์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์–‘๊ทน์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ๋’ค์„ž์€ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ํšŒํ™”๋กœ ๊ฐ์ž๋งŒ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ธต์œ„๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผ์žฌ๋œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ๊ด€๋…์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜, ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ํŒ๋‹จ์„ ์œ ๋ณดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ์ „ํ†ต๋ฏธํ•™์˜ ์ฒด์— ๊ฑธ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ํ•˜์œ„๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์œ„๋กœ ๊ธธ์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ ค ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ด๋ก ํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„์‹œ๋Œ€์™€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์‘ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฏธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์งš์–ด๋ณด๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.



The exhibition "Goblin Mode" at Art Space Hohwa introduces the works of four artists: Artnom[Lee1] , Lee Yunsung[Lee2] , Lee Eun[Lee3] , and Miguel Angel Funez[Lee4] , who predominantly use cartoon-like characters as their primary visual language. These characters evoke a sense of déjà vu and even evoke an unknown nostalgia. However, they soon undergo their own mutation process, becoming flatter and sticking to the screen, thereby widening the narrowed distance between themselves and viewers. The four artists bring forth characters infused with subcultural sensibilities from mediums such as comics and animation, presenting them as personas representing their own voices. These images simultaneously reflect reality while escaping it, disrupting our perception system. This exhibition examines the works of these four artists, who convey messages of hybridism through their thin and vibrant visual spectacles.


Artnom combines pop art-style character paintings with mixed and alien codes, expressing his life and beliefs. The reinterpretation of cheerful classical paintings with adorable characters and pictogrammed representations of contemporary capitalist symbols can be seen as a contemporary manifestation of the artist's spirit to break free from authority. Lee Yunsung has been creating paintings and sculptures that convert Western texts such as the Bible and Greek mythology into the expressive style of manga. Symbols of Western art history such as Medusa and Danae are portrayed on the screen as a third type of character that transcends stereotypes, based on the "moe anthropomorphism" that originated from Japanese animation. Lee Eun recreates the rhythmic of GIFs using deliberate amateurish touches on canvas. She materializes beloved Disney characters, once doomed to move perpetually within digital spaces, onto the canvas, bridging the gap between virtual and reality. Miguel Angel Funez[Lee5] patterns familiar cartoon characters by dismantling and reassembling them on the canvas. The images that combine in incomplete forms and infinitely proliferate symbolize the digital age, where everything is easily transformed and replicated. In this way, the four artists transcend this era through characters that have undergone heterogeneous combinations of classics and modernity, East and West, digital and analog, repetition and difference.


The exhibition title "Goblin Mode" is a neologism that refers to an attitude of shamelessness and freedom that rejects social norms. This word, which originally referred to those who do not want to return to their daily lives after the relaxation of COVID-19 regulations, has now expanded its meaning to represent a contemporary spirit of creating new standards through subversive thinking. This exhibition is in line with this contemporary movement and trend. The artists of "Goblin Mode" construct their unique artistic worlds through character paintings that blend contrasting concepts. The images, which are imbued with multiple layers, break away from traditional notions of art, causing us to suspend familiar value judgments. Furthermore, they actively elevate subcultures that have been filtered through the sieve of traditional aesthetics, bringing them to the forefront of discourse. This exhibition aims to explore how hybrid images using characters resonate with the present era, while also presenting new aesthetic possibilities.

 

  







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