▲ Die Eberjagd, Charcoal on paper, 350x490cm overall, 30x70cm, total 49 parts, 2022-2023 ⓒ Bin Woo Hyuk, Gallery Baton

Bin Woo Hyuk(빈우혁) holds his solo exhibition, 'Die Eberjagd' at Gallery Baton in Seoul.

Bin is a Korean contemporary artist who is active in Berlin, and the exhibition features works on the theme of the park's landscape, which he has frequently visited and inspired since moving to Berlin.

He believes that the act of walking can lead to the elevation of human sensibility and meet the sublime of nature. By steadily practicing these rituals through walking, he reduces the weight of life and heals the inner wounds of suffering.

▲ POOL, Oil on canvas, 90x115cm, 2023 ⓒ Bin Woo Hyuk, Gallery Baton

In the process of taking these walks, the artist was fascinated by the natural environment and began to develop the process of adjusting the aesthetic direction. The artist often visited the forest, meditated, and began painting by capturing the experience on canvas.

Bin continued to think about how to capture the landscape he saw at the park from the time he began to paint the early works of the painting. He emphasized the abstract aspect by expressing the foreground of fine objects such as spots on the water surface or moss growing on old trees in vivid colors rather than the wide landscape, looking for a way to transform the nature of wildlife and nature in a way that is depicted on the canvas as it is.

▲ LAKE STUDY WITH RAIN OP.98, Oil and graphite on linen, 130x160cm, 2023 ⓒ Bin Woo Hyuk, Gallery Baton

The artist attempts a new pictorial attempt by borrowing a fractal form in which a simple structure that can be easily found in ecology forms a repetitive shape. He pays more attention to depicting the basic unit of the object that forms the entire image than the object itself.

'Die Eberjagd(2003)', one of the important works in the exhibition, is a huge work consisting of 49 drawings depicting a statue in Tiergarten Park. With his health deteriorating due to a shoulder injury caused by calcific tendinitis, he went through healing of his body and mind through a walk and painted the picture.

▲ UFERWEG, Oil on canvas, 41x45cm, 2023 ⓒ Bin Woo Hyuk, Gallery Baton

Each charcoal painting that makes up the work plays a role in completing the whole picture, further allowing the viewer to sense the passage of time and the change of seasons. Except for the section in which the figure holding a spear is represented, he chose a way in which the work looked semi-abstract by juxtaposing independent elements.

He hosted a total of three solo exhibitions at Gallery Baton back in 2014, 2017, and 2021, and this is his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition will be held until Feb. 17.

▲ The installation view ⓒ Bin Woo Hyuk, Gallery Baton

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