▲ New Type_QQ, Acrylic gouache on linen, pigment, 116.8x91cm ⓒ Jong-wan Jang, Foundry Seoul

Jong-wan Jang holds a solo exhibition, 'Goldilocks Zone' in Seoul.

Jang is a Korean contemporary artist who works on painting with various media and will unveil about 30 new works in the exhibition. He presents surreal works that convey his message through various symbols and emphasize certain shades.

The artist creates works that raise questions about faith and anxiety about the ideal world through utopian landscapes. He cites the three keywords anxiety, fantasy, and redemption as the most important emotional bond in human history.

▲ New Type_TT, Acrylic gouache on linen, pigment, 116.8x91cm ⓒ Jong-wan Jang, Foundry Seoul

In the exhibition, he expanded his interest in the landscape that he has consistently shown in his work to space and unveiled a work that combines agriculture and futurism. To express a cosmic and future atmosphere with rural, the artist actively used animals and plants.

The title of the exhibition, 'Goldilocks Zone' is named after the main girl in the fairy tale 'Three Bears'. 'Goldilocks Zone', a soup with an appropriate temperature and a moderately comfortable bed found in a cottage where three bears live, is used as an economic term to mean ideal and optimal situation.

▲ New Type_Cha Cha, Acrylic gouache on linen, pigment, 116.8x91cm ⓒ Jong-wan Jang, Foundry Seoul

In the exhibition, the characters in his work have flower heads or fairy looks and farm in a calm farmhouse. The unfamiliar figures in the familiar background represent the artist's imagination of the future, a retrospective of the past landscape before global warming, and the present, which consists of a combination of life on Earth.

Jang raises the question of whether there was a world that could replace the Earth in the past or whether it exists in the present or the future. The audience will be able to view the works and think about the environmental problems that humanity is currently facing.

The exhibition will be held until the 23rd at Foundary Seoul in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

▲ The poster of the exhibition ⓒ Jong-wan Jang, Foundry Seoul

Sayart / Nao Yim, yimnao@naver.com