NYAB Event - Sungsic Moon “Drawing”

Sungsic Moon “Drawing”

Doosan Gallery

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DOOSAN Gallery New York presents a solo drawing exhibition of Sungsic Moon. The exhibition occupies his recent series of drawing and premieres his latest works in New York.

Sungsic Moon has started to receive an attention when his work was presented in the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2005. After presenting his solo exhibitions in Kukje Gallery in 2011, he gained prominence early in Korean contemporary art scene.

Moon is known for his sentimental drawings of rural area of Korea. His drawings are based on his memory from his childhood, the place where he was born and raised. His drawings possess intuitive capabilities to empathize the viewers with his sentimental and penetrated depiction of the hidden essence of life.

He often visualizes his slice of life into drawing of people and landscapes of countryside, however, from his recent series of drawing, he depicts such state which everyone has have experience at least once in their life. For example, when Youth, narrates an achingly tender love story of young couple and ‘Old son and the older mother’ empathize with pitifully tragic reality, his drawings find an echo in everyone’s heart. In this exhibition, viewers would have a great opportunity to appreciate the sentimental drawings of a new breed of Korean contemporary artist.

Sungsic Moon was born in Gimcheon, South Korea in 1980. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea. He has had solo exhibitions at Kukje Gallery (2011, Seoul, Korea) and Kimiart Gallery (2006, Seoul, Korea). His works also has been included at Biennale Giovani Monza (2011, Monza, Italy), Bochum Museum (2010, Bochum, Germany), Kyoto Art Center (2010, Kyoto, Japan), Prague Biennale (2009, Prague, Czech Republic), alternative space LOOP (2008, Seoul, Korea), and Venice Biennale (2005, Venice, Italy).

[Image: Sungsic Moon “Summer Landscape” (2012) Ink on Paper, 10.2x7.2in / 26x18.2cm]