▲ mindscape, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 130.3x162.2cm ⓒ Seojung ArtChung Young Hwan holds his solo exhibition, 'Echo In The Silence' at Seojung Art in Seoul.

Chung is a contemporary artist in South Korea who paints works that provide aesthetic stability and comfort based on the appearance of nature created by his imagination. In the exhibition, he presents works that are unrealistic and convey comfort, such as dream appearances.

The new 'Mindscape' series, which will be unveiled in this exhibition, features a forest of several trees from the front. The artist arranges regularly arranged trees and grasses in an artificial arrangement and implements natural forms and detailed elements found in familiar landscapes into ideal landscape paintings.

▲ mindscape, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 53.0x72.7cm ⓒ Seojung Art

He rejected the method of setting the main object of the landscape in the painting, deviating from the sense of space and composition. He expresses the rules and macroscopicity of nature rather than revealing the parts described in detail through the composition of each individual making up a huge forest and even a landscape.

The artist also actively used the contrast between red and blue colors. He did not visualize the contrast of warmth but expressed nature's energy in balance and harmony by using opposite colors at the same time. This is the result of the artist's consideration of infinite areas such as communication with nature and the power of nature.

▲ Just-gazing resting, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 72.7x90.9cm ⓒ Seojung Art

Echo In The Silence, an exhibition name, represents the synesthetic image that thoughts initiated through sight return to hearing, just like echoes ringing in a still forest. The artist suggests that visitors appreciate their works and approach them in a way of thinking, not a representation of nature.

The exhibition is at Seojung Art, located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, until Feb. 17.

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