Bae Yoon Hwan: What? In My Back Yard?!

Bae Yoon Hwan: What? In My Again Yard?!
29 June–30 July 2022
Gallery Baton
116, Dokseodang-ro
Yongsan-gu
Seoul, 04420
South Korea

What? In My Back Yard?!, a solo exhibition by Bae Yoon Hwan from 29 June to 30 July. Bae Yoon Hwan, who has been going toward a new degree of his have practice discovering the identity and risk of painting by presenting figures and activities obtained from various sources into pictorial storytelling, options new paintings built above previous several years as a result of his 2nd solo exhibition at Galley Baton.

Taking into consideration the current creative method, Bae Yoon Hwan, who is in his early 40s, looks to be someplace in the center of his journey to commit himself and achievements as an artist. Nevertheless, people who have viewed his thirties carefully also bear in mind his way of bold, imposing and experimental striving to probe the limits of his actual physical toughness and spirit at every minute, and the benefits.

In Street to Studio B (2018), a commission of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), is a cease movement animated video that brings together drawing, tiny-scale set up and clay of 11:40 duration. Bae finished this function by himself, dedicating far more than half a calendar year by itself, encompassing drawings, sculpture, portray and filming just about every reduce to produce the movie. In addition to the appreciation of watching the unpredictable storytelling of several teams, it invites viewers to truly feel fascination of the wish for the aesthetic pursuit as an artist and his devotion to element his hybrid apply.

Prior to that, it is needed to highlight the exhibition at Insa Art Place (2014), which is the starting of creating Bae’s inventive follow in the very same context. WAS IT A CAT I Saw (2014) is a massive-scale portray with a width of 50 meters, 2.2 meters higher. (Taking into consideration its enormous scale, it is one of masterpieces in the history of fashionable Korean art.) The perform, which was completed by repeatedly spreading it out in meters in a very small studio, was introduced absolutely loaded the wall of the exhibition house of a single stage and a lot more than fifty percent of the painting were being nonetheless wrapped in a roll. Apart from its mind-boggling size, the 50-meter masterpiece introduced viewers an thought of his persistence as an artist in aspects and also introduced the significant environment of his creativity as a source of creation.

Bae kept an experimental spirit in the age of mass media, identified the which means of every incidents and images that had been uncovered to him indefinitely, and devoted himself to selective collection. This exhibition is the mark of current attempts to establish a refined collective narration on the canvas. Referencing the NIMBY phenomenon, the exhibition title, What? In My Again Yard?! is an exclamation that reflects a person of the qualities of modern day society, which reminds us that the works presented in this exhibition problems social incidents or international phenomena.

However, scenes showcasing personified animals and depicting them humorously are made to lower the seriousness of veiled references in the portray could give, or to continue to keep universal pictorial purity versus them. Bae’s skilful technique of finely inserting the important photos and narratives less than the layout and shade of each individual paintings presents a put where engaged themes could coexist secretly on the driving of the operate, which is seemingly Aesop-fashion presentation.

In Lullaby for Fangs (2022), fatigued-wanting wolf and ridiculously dressed active rabbits, reveals the other aspect of animals population manage in the United States and Australia. Rabbits, who have flourished in Australia underneath a lot more than a hundred-12 months population regulate coverage, serving to wolf by consulting their very own manners are vividly expressed are in colors as the wolf has abruptly come to be the formal target of the U.S. government. By the spectacular contrast between rabbits on rocks crossing the canvas diagonally and wolf curled up to snooze at the bottom left side, it indirectly shows that the development of incidents more than different spans of time and areas goes towards the ecological hierarchy of the two and indicates their new romantic relationship

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