SEO

SEO’s work uses a distinctive way of the collage technique: after sticking pieces of paper on a canvas, which she paints over and over with acryl paint. The way of using our Korean traditional paper, Hanji, expresses the oriental color sense and the softness of Hanji in good harmony. First, she paints a work with colors, and keeps completing the work, as she applies Hanji piece by piece and paints over and over to at least five-folded layers until her colors soak out. The repeated course of these piled layers of Hanji and painted colors gives her work a unique feeling of depth and vividness.

Her works, with the clear color sense of acryl painted on Hanji and the orient and the occident well-harmonized, have been called “the brush of neo-romanticism” since 2004. The insides of her works show Korean painting’s styles: her drawings use the ts’unfa of Hayupjunbeob. The bases of her works show the influence of Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840), the representative of German Romantic painting themed on natural landscapes, who she researched on while majoring in Korean painting. Above all, the influence of his teacher, Georg Baselitz cannot be overlooked, too. Prof. Baselitz emphasized “You don’t have to imitate what the European ones paint and must not forget where you are from.” She’s been constantly trying her best to paint her own unique paintings based on the tradition she learned from her teacher’s teachings, and to paint the unseen essence of matters.

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Kim Min-kyeong
Curator, Gwangju Museum of Art

 

 

 

SEO
Born in 1977, Gwangju, Korea

EDUCATION
2003-2004 Universität der Künste, Master Student of Prof. Georg Baselitz, Berlin, Germany
2001-2003 Universität der Künste, Class of Georg Baselitz, Berlin, Germany
2000 Cho-sun University, Gwangju, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2016 Room for you, Galerie Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, Germany
2016 Die Verdoppelung der Wirklichkeit, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Die Teilung der Unendlichkeit, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany
2015 International Landscapes, Kunstkabinett, Regensburg, Germany
2015 It’s a woman’s world, Galerie 2C for Art, Salzburg, Austria
2015 Zwischen den Welten, Galerie Noah, Augsburg, Germany
2015 Lost and Found, Spazio Punch Venedig, Italy
2015 Das Gefühl in meinem Inneren, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany
2014 Vernissage im Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Danziger Freiheit 1, Koblenz, Germany
2014 Global Things – The long way back, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2015 Raum und Zeit, Berlin, Germany
2015 Dancer in the Dark, schultz contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2014 SURVIVORS, Löwenpalais / Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany
2014 THE WEEKLY SHOW, schultz contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2014 Ausstellung NEO Expressionism German Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2013 Ausstellung im Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Infinity: Neo-expressionism, Contemporary Art, Zahn Zhou International Art Park, Beijing, China
2013 Kulturen – Kontakte, Städtische Galerie Villa Streccius, Landau, Germany
2012 Flying, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2012 Korean Modern Art. Status and Prospects, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea