Venue: Daegu Museum Exhibition Rooms 2, 3 and Sunken Garden (Daegu)

Participating Artists: GWON Osang, PARK Junghae, BACK Seungwoo, BEK Hyunjin, AHN Jisan, CHUNG Heeseung, CHO Jaiyoung, CHOI Sungrok Composition of Exhibition: 60 works including 2-dimensional works, sculptures and installations

Concepts and expression methods in art, beginning from the realistic representation of subjects, have been continuously expanded through diverse formal experiments and attempts. Formalist experimentation in 20th-century Modernism, and Pop Art, combined with mass culture in the mid 20th century, are typical examples of such attempts; and even in the oldest medium among the art genres—painting—artists have made various attempts to extend its boundaries through different methodologies. Today’s interdisciplinary art, combining different genres such as media art, video and performance, continues to develop as a new realm through the conducting of aesthetic experiments.

Media Study: Tension and Relaxationwas designed to confirm the diverse aspects of visual art in an age when interdisciplinary art, especially contemporary media, has become a focus of attention, and to take a closer look at today’s contemporary art. Specifically, the exhibition will introduce painting, sculpture, installation and media art works that study the states and conditions of media, examining how the various elements of media are transformed and newly built, and how they are deeply set in the characteristics of the media inside and outside the frame (image). Through works that drift freely using media-based elements as their material, the exhibition will also try to confirm the states of tension and relaxation that create balance and imbalance as each element of the media is constructed or deconstructed in the work. The show will be divided into three sections, enabling spectators to see the diverse methods by which the artists deal with the media: works that subvert the given properties of the media and re-contextualize them (Transformation and Construction/ GWON Osang, BACK Seungwoo, CHO Jaiyoung), methods of sinking deeply into the characteristics of the media inside and outside the frame (image) (Submersion and Exploration/ PARK Junghae, Ahn Jisan, CHUNG Heeseung), and finally, methods of variation and playing with different elements in media (Variation and Play/ BEK Hyunjin, CHOI Sungrok).

Artists often question the media they have chosen, exploring them as they subvert or maintain the existing rules. The results of such a process contain new approaches and attempts in perception of the media. Through Media Study: Tension and Relaxation, we hope that viewers will receive glimpses of the artists’ concerns and questions about images and elements of media in their works, and will be given the opportunity to broaden their understanding of contemporary art based on the topic of media.

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