HUH CHUNG, 허 청
1964 Born in Seoul, Korea
1990 B.F.A Chung-Ang University of Fine Art(Painting) Seoul, Korea
1995 M.F.A Graduated School of Chung-Ang University(Painting) Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 Gallery BONART (Hanam, Korea)
2019 CJ.ONE Gallery (New York, USA)
2019 TOPOHAUS Art Center (Seoul, Korea)
2013 Gallery GAHOEDONG60 (Seoul, Korea)
1998 365 Studio (Paju, Korea)
1996 DANSUNG Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
1992 DANSUNG Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 Blue Art Fair 2022 (The Westin Josun Busan)
2019 Art busan 2019 (BEXCO, Busan)
2018 Seoul Art Show (COEX, Seoul)
2018 Art Korea London (Le Dame Gallery & Melia Hotel, London, UK)
2017 SCOPE Miami Beach 2017 (Miami, USA)
La Nouvelle Vague (Kit Gallery)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Wul Gallery, Ilsan)
2016 Scales of the Dragon (Seoul Art Center, Seoul)
2013 WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Gallery H)
2002 Cognate Painting Exhibition (Chung-Ang Art Center Gallery, Seoul)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Jungle Book Art Gallery, Ilsan)
2000 Ye Woo Exhibition (Kong Pyung Art Center, Seoul)
1999 WHO IS WHO Exhibition Seoul Art Center, Seoul)
1998 Dong-A Art Festival (National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea)
1997 Five Korean Artist Exhibition (Stamt Gallery, Modling, Austria)
The 19th JOONGANG Fine Arts Prize(Hoam Art Hall, Seoul)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Arko Art Center, Seoul)
1996 The 15th Korea Art Grand Exhibition (National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea)
VIS A VIS, The 5th Anniversary of Dansung Gallery (Dansung Gallery, Seoul)
Chung-Ang University_The Anniversary 40year’s Exhibition (Seoul Museum of Art)
Life, Autonomy for Searching Eternity Exhibition (Jongno Gallery, Seoul)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Jongno Gallery, Seoul)
1995 WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Seoul Art Center, Seoul)
1993 Korea Young Artist Exhibition (Kong Pyung Art Center, Seoul)
Forecasting Exhibition of Korean Modern Art of Rising Generation (Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul)
Life, the Exhibition of Vision, Perception’s Horizon (Cheong Nam Gallery, Seoul)
VIS A VIS, The 2nd opening Planned To Exhibition (Dangsung Gallery, Seoul)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Seoul Art Center, Dong Ho Gallery, Seoul)
1992 International Show of Communication Art (Jang An Center, Suwon)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Seoul Art Center, Seoul)
1991 Today’s Situation Exhibition (Baek Ack Gallery, Seoul)
INTO Exhibition (Na Gallery)
WHO IS WHO Exhibition (Total Gallery, Seoul)
1990 Chung-Ang Modern Art Festival (Kyung In Gallery, Seoul)
ILLUMINATION Exhibition (Young Artist Gallery, Seoul)
INTO Exhibition (Now Gallery, Seoul)
1989 Young Artist Exhibition (Young Artist Gallery, Seoul)
The 9th Young Artist Grand Exhibition, Special Prize (Young Artist Gallery, Seoul)
The 6th Modern Art Grand Exhibition, Special Prize (Design Center, Seoul)
INTO Exhibition (Chung-Ang Gallery, Seoul)
Holding onto images deep inside
Chung’s theme of work is to gather the passing of time and its’ imprints. All things trivial eventually leave an expression, repeating their creation and extinction. The process is to look back on the remaining traces of time.
The artist accumulates signs of life as seen through his own perspective, into his subconscious. He would gauge the relative merits on a canvas with ideas, just as a film director would view slides of film on a projector screen. During this time he plots the conflict between incidental elements and planned elements. This is not an expression of intellectual logic.
The purpose is to frame an image, buried deep inside the memories of the artist. This gesture, a personal expression of concern, is a formality of self-effusion.
- It is yet an amusing game to modulate the relationship between reason and instinct, from which derives from their own opposition as well. -
- The logic and determination of “completion” and “conclusion” is merely a single moment that exists in the human consciousness. -
The artist is curious and shows affection to the less completed, unstable or even questionable. In this sense he believes the incomplete landscape finds a place to exist without courtship. He looks back into “existence”, and organizes phases out of his deepest memories, as he randomly places them on a framework, a screen.
His canvas is often thick textured, curious about the unremitting properties of the medium. It might lead you to think he is staging the foundation itself to become a drawing. He portrays his metaphor through the process of dripping, staining, and repainting as it gradually leads to completion.
- Tattered and tarnished traces that life seems to leave behind becomes yet another landscape by his meaningless brush strokes, evoking others by his emotional tone. -