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Selection
Daeji Mountain, Daeji Mountain, Time lapse
Chung Sang Gon2025.03.07 ~ 2025.06.30
Description of the work
- Media 1, 2) Wood laser engraving 3) Woodcut, laser engraving, chine-collé
- Location LOTTE HOTEL SEOUL MAIN TOWER 1F
As a painter and printmaker, Chung Sang Gon creates dramatic and organic landscapes that exist on the boundary between reality and fiction. Rather than depicting specific landscapes imbued with meaning, his work leans toward an experiential, humanistic, and historical perspective, offering viewers a unique and personal experience.
His process is both accidental and deliberate. By adjusting the ratio of paint to liquid, he creates surfaces with varying gloss levels, making some areas of the canvas appear freshly painted. His bold and rapid brushstrokes swirl and fragment into colors reminiscent of mountains, rocks, waterfalls, trees, and grass. These organic surfaces evoke the sensation of humidity, wind, and the scent of wood, crafting a hallucinatory scene.
Chung Sang Gon channels the emotions drawn from nature onto the canvas. He explores the two-dimensionality of the canvas while delving into the profound emotions that can be discovered through the grandeur of nature’s force.
Artwork Inquiry 1533-8017
His process is both accidental and deliberate. By adjusting the ratio of paint to liquid, he creates surfaces with varying gloss levels, making some areas of the canvas appear freshly painted. His bold and rapid brushstrokes swirl and fragment into colors reminiscent of mountains, rocks, waterfalls, trees, and grass. These organic surfaces evoke the sensation of humidity, wind, and the scent of wood, crafting a hallucinatory scene.
Chung Sang Gon channels the emotions drawn from nature onto the canvas. He explores the two-dimensionality of the canvas while delving into the profound emotions that can be discovered through the grandeur of nature’s force.
Artwork Inquiry 1533-8017
About the author
Chung Sang Gon graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in painting and later specialized in printmaking at the same institution’s graduate school. Gaining early recognition in the Korean art scene, he made a global impact by winning the Grand Prize at the Tallinn International Print Triennial in 1998 and the Grand Prize at the Ljubljana International Print Biennale in 1999. After establishing himself as a world-renowned printmaker, he transitioned to oil painting to express emotions more intuitively.
Having started in printmaking and later developing a unique approach to expressive landscapes and still lifes, Chung Sang Gon has held over 40 solo exhibitions since the 1990s in cities such as Seoul, Berlin, Tallinn, Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Novosibirsk. His artistic achievements have been widely recognized, earning him numerous awards, including the Dong-A Art Prize at the Dong-A Art Festival in 1992, as well as accolades from international competitions such as the Krakow Triennial, the Tallinn International Print Triennial, the Ljubljana Biennale, and the Oldenburg International Print Triennial. His works are part of the collections of major institutions, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the British Museum in the UK, the Seoul Museum of Art, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, the Korea Development Bank, and the Park Soo Keun Museum.
Chung Sang Gon (1963,~ Korea)
M.F.A. Printmaking, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.F.A. Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.F.A. Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
