이상원

Education
1974 Graduated from Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Arts
1969 Graduated from the Department of Painting at Seorabeol University of Arts
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021   Metaphor Island, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2020   Beyond Memory, Daegu Shinsegae Gallery, Daegu
2017    Snow, Hakgojae Main Building, Seoul
            Haden Museum, Gyeonggi Province
            Implicit Semiotics, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2016   Level of Memory, Hakgojae Gallery, Shanghai
            Art Issue Project, Taipei
            Level of Memory, Fonton Gallery, London
            Level of Memory, Korean Cultural Center, Brussels
            Level of Memory, Korean Cultural Center, Paris
2015    Oh Se-yeol - New, Bodu-Anglebong Gallery, Paris
2008   Samteo Gallery, Seoul
2000   Saemteo Gallery, Seoul
1997    Yehwarang, Seoul

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​Selected Group Exhibitions
2022   Oh Se-yeol, Lee Ji-hyun, 2 people, Lee Gong-lally, Daejeon
2021   New Collection 2017-2020: Continued Worlds, Gyeongnam Provincial Museum of Art, Gyeongnam, Changwon
2019   Blue Blue, Choice Art Company, Seoul
           The Forest, Gallery, Joeun, Seoul
2017    Oh Se-yeol & Kim Dong-yu Priesthood Exhibition, Gallery Jo Eun, Seoul
            Props, ROCKHEE. Thank you! 2017 Exhibition. Gallery, Joeun
            Galleria Leone, Seoul
2015   Initiative and Awareness, Art Issue Project, Taipei

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Awards
1976    3rd Korea Daily Art Awards, Best Award
1972    Spherical Symposium, Gold Prize
1971    Spherical Symposium, Gold Prize
1969    Conception, Silver Award
1965~1980   Korea Art Exhibition, Special Selections(5 times), 9 Winnings

 

About Works

The skin on the screen is very flat, but on top of it, paints and objects inhabit like living things. Various marks of the artist are scattered such as grass or stones. They combine strangely and create a fascinating work. With a mixture of paintings, collages, objects and sculptural acts, scribbles and pranks roll on the surface as they please. This formative act, which relies on chance and spontaneity, circulates in a chain ring. Numbers are constantly and repeatedly written, and lines and symbols that cannot be self-contained by themselves appear everywhere. Between them is a collage with the shape of flowers and birds. Small everyday objects are secretly and carefully settled around it. Pictures, collages, and objects coexist on the surface, atomizing differences. The desktop itself, which is already the background, is solid, rich traces of physicality, and the process of distant time and weathering, leaving almost a fragment of objectified skin, so everything on it seems inevitably pushed out, naturally cutting from the bottom. It is a painting that is not separated from the surface and a painting that constantly creates a conspiracy relationship of content and formal connection with it using the base as a support.