Sanggyun Lee maintained an interest in the image of civil buildings through field research and transformed these three-dimensional architectures or places on the canvas. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in 2017 and earned a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the graduate institution. When he was a child, his father worked in the civil engineering field, hence he is said to be searching for a connection to his works and father. Images of structures that emerge in work are abstracted by reducing them to a certain structural framework. Among the spaces where urbanisation is desired by humans, the desire to acquire subjectivity and spatiality captures the immobility of civil construction sites as an observer monitoring the process. He also applies on-site tools such as Hera, plastering knife, and ink rope to paintings with a construction mindset.

Using a composition reminiscent of perspective sketching, the “Spillway Strong Current Part” creates a sense of disconnection from reality. Through these effects, he depicts reality on a two-dimensional plane that differs from the reality of three-dimensional materials and maintains a psychological distance from the overwhelming structure. The hues produced by combining matte pigments diminish the subject’s exaggerated physical properties and blur the indications of realism. The artist is fascinated by massive artificial concrete structures inspired by nature, and he creates his own virtual structures by stacking planes on canvas. In contrast to natural objects, a camera lens captures the linear and geometric design of architecture, which is then transmitted to the plane through diagonal lines and various colors and textures. By a form of nostalgia that arises throughout this process, Lee presents with wit a world that is neither emotionally nor emotionally close but is neither frigid. 

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