
JeongWoong Lee created in 2024
60.5 cm
40 cm
JeongWoong Lee is an artist who explores the boundaries between reality, fiction, memory, and time through painting, expanding visual art into a new dimension. His work delves into profound questions about human perception and sensation, connecting visual narratives and sensory experiences in a unique way. His practice intertwines history, reality, and imaginary worlds, creating a complex structure within his works. For him, painting is not merely a reproduction; it becomes a space where viewers transcend the boundaries of truth and fiction, inviting them to engage in a new experience. His work focuses on exploring new realities created through human memory and sensation. Artist believes that objective knowledge and values are ultimately virtual realities, and through this belief, he suggests that individuals have the power to create their own worlds. His work encourages viewers to confront inner truths and discover new visual and sensory understandings through the language of painting. Constantly pushing the boundaries of painting, Artist's work reflects a deep reflection on human existence and reality, offering a continuous dialogue through art.
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Obscura is a Seoul-based art gallery that first founded in 2015, then as SPACE IKKI, located in Seoungbuk-dong area. The name of the gallery derives from the Latin phrase camera obscura, meaning “dark room,” which refers to the first optical device used as a painting-aid, whereby an image is projected through a hole onto its opposite wall in a darkened room. Obscura aims to make contemporary art accessible to a wide range of audience and provide various artistic and cultural contexts for interdisciplinary efforts, by emphasizing performative elements of curatorial practice and exhibition making. With keen eyes on sophisticated work by artists with solid and idiosyncratic practice, Obscura has been supporting and promoting contemporary artists in the fields of painting, installation, photography and new media.
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$1,639
(₩2,400,000)

