▲ landscape seen from a moving perspective yellow, 179x243cm, 2020 ⓒ jo Jong Sung

Jo Jong Sung(조종성) holds his solo exhibition at Johyun Gallery in Busan.

Jo is a contemporary artist who newly seeks Korean traditional painting and expresses the oriental perspective inherent in landscape painting. Rather than looking at the object from a specific perspective, he paints works by metaphysically abstracting the flow of qi that can be felt from the perspective of moving freely.

He was born in Busan in 1977 and graduated from Dong-A University in 2003 with a degree in painting, before being selected as a Kumho Young artist in 2007. He participated in several group exhibitions at major art galleries in Korea, and 2019, he participated in the "Narrative of Korean Art" group exhibition with leading Korean artists Kim Hwan-ki and Park Seo-bo.

▲ landscape seen from a moving perspective yellow, 200x180cm, 2020 ⓒ jo Jong Sung

In this exhibition, the artist went through a process of working that was contrary to his previous works. The dreamy natural scenery embodied in a dark background and fog forms the form of a house.

In his previous work, the artist built a brush by adjusting the thickness of the ink on white paper, but when he painted this work, he adjusted the concentration of gold powder on a black background.  

▲ landscape seen from a moving perspective yellow, 90x90cm, 2018, ⓒ jo Jong Sung

The artist uses the movement of the landscape painting's viewpoint to express various angles of the moving viewpoint itself, not perspective, on a single screen. He built his world of work by editing or collaging partial images of old landscape paintings with Korean paper, the ingredients of traditional ink-and-wash painting, and edible ingredients.

He is currently considered one of the leading figures in Korean painting culture and is particularly popular in the art market in Asia.

The exhibition will be held at the Johyun Gallery in Haeundae-gu, Busan until the 28th.

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