HONG KONG.- Gallery EXIT is presenting Korean artist Jeong Yun Kyung’s solo exhibition ‘Stone Planet’, on show between 18 March and 22 April, 2023.
Always personal and sensational, Jeong’s works, as a response to her immediate surroundings, embody her own intimate emotions and experiences. Rendered in a combination of bold colours, lines, and gestures, her paintings summon up the experience of witnessing or expecting the passing through of a meteoroid over a serene landscape before one’s eyes. With this latest series of paintings, the artist aims to capture the fleeting moment, a flash of time that one experiences, and express the sensations and memories evoked by such decisive moments.
This new series is Jeong’s devoted and continued exploration of the visual language of abstract painting. Having studied and been inspired by traditional Eastern abstract painting, she is interested in the reinterpretation of this tradition, experimenting with marks and lines that generate different feelings, qualities and finishings in similar spatial arrangements. These mixed media works consist of various materials applied onto the same raw canvas surface: oil paint, spray paint, coloured pencil, pencil, crayon, and paper collages, in splashes and patches. These collages of contrary elements and experiences, natural and artificial, busy and quiet, seem at once to fight against and live in harmony with one another.
Seoul-based Korean mixed-media artist Jeong Yun Kyung finds a delicate balance between Eastern and Western artistic traditions by marrying East Asian ink with abstract expressionism from the West. Jeong’s works have been widely exhibited internationally since 2005. Her solo shows curated by Gallery EXIT in Hong Kong including Stone Planet (2023); and Dash and Symphony (2020), which was her solo debut in Hong Kong. Other selected solos include Killing the Night (Triumph Gallery, Moscow, 2022); Finger Spell (Graphite on Pink, Seoul, Korea, 2021); Intimate Immensity (Triumph Gallery, Moscow, 2018); Structural Sensibility (Art’Loft, Brussels, 2016); and In-Sync (Gallery Koo, Seoul, 2015). Selected group show participations include In Search of Absence (Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2021); Moscow-Seoul: Common intelligence (The Museum of Moscow , Russia, 2021); Asia Now Paris (Art’s Loft/Lee-Bauwens Gallery, Paris, 2019); and Lines of Flight (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2016). Jeong’s works are in the collections of the Tiroche DeLeon Collection; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; and the OCI Museum in Seoul, Korea.
