- Artist Sungsic Moon
Uncanny World
2016
Installation view
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present the solo exhibition Uncanny World by Sungsic Moon from March 9 to April 2, 2016. As the youngest Korean artist in the 2005 Venice Biennale, Moon has since received acclaim for his emotive works charged with realism.
Moon’s paintings spring from his interest, affection and curiosity towards the world and people living in it. Moon’s paintings portray trivial everyday experiences like his grandmother’s funeral in a countryside home, fishing with his brother, a bird he happened to see on his stroll in a winter day at times in dense and detailed forms, and sometimes in rough and concise forms.
In this exhibition at the DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Moon illustrates the world as a disordered integration of nature and human world. His large work measuring over 4m in length constructs a new world of fragments of nature he saw or found on the internet, and phenomena from the artist’s experiences unfold delicately over the large ground in the work.
Along with illustrations of the mysterious world, Moon also presents figures portraying ordinary people living in such world, who might be the artist himself, the audience, or people in our neighborhood. The meaningful moments in faint black paint contemplate on the ordinary but universal human life.
Sungsic Moon (b. 1980) received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Korea National University of Arts. He has held solo exhibitions at DOOSAN Gallery Seoul (2016, Seoul, Korea), DOOSAN Gallery New York (2013, New York, NY, USA), Kukje Gallery (2011, Seoul, Korea), and KiMi Art (2006, Seoul, Korea). He has also participated in group exhibitions at venues that include LEE UNGNO Memorial Museum (2015, Hongseong, Korea), ARKO ART CENTER (2015, Seoul, Korea), Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (2015, Seoul, Korea), HITE COLLECTION (2012, Seoul, Korea), Biennale Giovani Monza (2011, Monza, Italy), and Kunstmuseum Bochum (2010, Bochum, Germany).