Hyunwook Park

Statement

I, Hyunwook Park (b. 1984, Seoul, South Korea), am a graduate in BFA Fine art (traditional Korean Painting, 2011), BA Cross-Cultural Studies (2011), BA Studies of Glocal-Culture Contents (2011), MFA Fine art (traditional Korean Painting) at Sung Kyun Kwan university and MFA Fine art at UCL Slade School of Fine Art (2020). During the period, I had twice of solo exhibitions, 12 times of group exhibition and twice of collaboration shows with a dance team.

About my work, simply say, my works are started from parting, losing, throwing away, leaving and separating in everyday life. I tried to represent ordinary but unique existence and their disappearing includes ourselves. Since 2013, Missing Pages is the main title and theme of a project negotiating with such problems as time, existence, and expiration. It consists of drawings, paintings, and sculptures that represent humdrum objects in everyday life. The goal of this project is to renew the meanings of the neglected objects that have yet to demise, by taxonomizing their visual forms, and exuviae littered around us. In short, I am highlighting everyday, life, time, objects and places as meaningful and unique ones. I expect to represent emotional or spiritual parts rather than objective reality. At the same time, I try to avoid that the objects in my works are regarded as symbols. Recently, I found that I also have curiosity, craving and adore life and time and I am trying to expand my work with those minds.

In terms of painting, I am trying to combining traditional Korean painting and contemporary European painting. Splitting and combining layers is also one of the most interesting topics recently. For instance, I am experimenting to use various materials in one painting (not mixing) or combining several pages of paintings into one work to make layers. In the case of resin works, encapsulating objects in resin in a wooden box make those visible but distant. Also, viewers can open and close the wooden boxes but these are showing only one side. These factors highlight revealing, hiding and distancing. At the same time, I expect these works can be shown as a sculpture like a painting and a painting like a sculpture.

About selling my artwork, I expect that the progress of selling the works one by one depicts that the memories are dimming and being abstracted. If I can have an exhibition with all of these pieces after all pieces are sold, this process can be regarded as a reminding. All of those are not only for visual joy and exploration but also for searching for various ways to reveal lives, moments and existence with my sight.

GlogauAIR Project

During around three month of the artist residency period, I am going to concentrate on painting works. I am planning to paint over 30 pieces of small work and over 3 pieces of large work. At the same time, since my recent works have various style but each style has no enough quality and quantity, I am going to choose some style and do a concentrated strategy.

My days – PXC550 and Somewhere Over the Windows – in Bloomsburry can be good examples. The former is for representing objects, layering via combing pages and traditional Korean style. The latter is for layering via deferring materials and my new topics such as moment, others’ life. To be more specific in terms of objects, I have interests in daily meals, lost items and scenery which is showing through windows. In short, I want to keep concentrate on everyday life as ordinary but important and disappearing precious time.

CV Summary

Education

• 2020 AUG University College London Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
  MFA Fine Art (Painting)
• 2015 AUG Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
  MFA Fine Art (Traditional Korean Painting)
• 2011 MAR Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
  BFA Fine Art, (Traditional Korean Painting)
  BA Cross-Cultural Studies
  BA Studies of Glocal-Culture Contents

Exhibitions

Solo

• 2015 Missing pages – second page, Space15th, Seoul, Korea
• 2014 Missing pages, Sungkyun Gallary, Seoul, Korea

Collaboration

• 2017 젊은 작가들의 봄.나.들.이,with Nulhui dance company, Seoul Art Center Jayu theatre, Seoul, Korea
• 2013 Labyrinth, with Nulhui dance company, Seoul Art Center CJ Towol theatre, Seoul, Korea

Group

• 2020 LONDON GRADS NOW, Saatchi gallery, London, UK
• 2020 RCA & SLADE GRADUATE SHOW, Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery, London, UK
• 2019 Pulling Teeth, ASC gallery, London, UK
• 2018 이형사신의길, HANBYEOKWON ART MUSEUM, Seoul, Korea
• 2017 Here and Now, Grimson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 2017 Friendship : Mentor-Mentee 3rdexhibition, Art College Association, Hanwon Museum Of Art, Seoul, Korea
• 2015 Today, Ask For The Way To The Tradition, The Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 2014 Continuità, Biennial of contemporary graphics, Exhibition Centre Fortress Paolina, Perugia, Italy
• 2014 Zeitgeist And Consciousness Of Eastern Painting Expression, Art College Association, Hanwon, Museum Of Art, Seoul, Korea
• 2013 동동서성이중홍, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• 2013 SKKU – SDU exhibition, Shandong Univ. Gallary, Shandong, China
• 2012 SKKU – NTNU exhibition, Sungkyun Gallary, Seoul, Korea

Gallery