Please join us to congratulate our students on their 6th Exhibition.
You will be amazed to see how much we can do. In less than a year, our students go from doing their first pencil strokes to oil paintings and even to show their works in an Exhibition!
So, please come to Myungdong Gallery this Sunday at 3:00 p.m. to see the works of students at Myeongdong.
And next Sunday September 5, 2010 also at 3:00 p.m. to see the second part of the Exhibition with works of students at Bundang and Gangnam.
Thank you!
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Congratulatory Message
GUBE (Internet Community http://cafe.daum.net/artdh) started as an open venue, with the motto “Let’s paint!: Everyone. Everywhere. Everytime” and opened the first atelier in Yeonshinnae, Northern Seoul, back in 2001. In 2004 GUBE held an exhibition at Na Gallery in Insadong, showing works of students and members for the first time ever to the public and the special audience of Insadong. Ever since that first event, despite the busy schedule and difficulties, GUBE managed to hold an Annual Exhibition to encourage its students to show their works, to inspire others and to continue learning. This Sixth Edition will be the first one held at Myeongdong Gallery, a venue dedicated to spreading the passion for painting, strategically located in downtown Seoul with the aim to become a cultural and art complex where everyone can always paint and share the beauty of culture and arts.
People frequently ask me if age matters when someone tries to learn how to paint. I tell them that anyone who wants to learn something becomes a student. Most people tend to think of a teenager whenever they hear the word student or the image of a teenager must be the first image that comes to mind. That is what happens when you start painting, you become a teenager. I truly believe this is THE way to stay young. That is the reason why GUBE is always youthful.
Soccer player Park Jisung advised young football players, “do it while you enjoy it.” He must have realized that the world’s best are those who enjoy what they do. I myself would like to advise everyone, ‘don’t think of painting as something difficult. Painting is a journey, in search of oneself. You will endure and enjoy any difficulty that might emerge. Start with the easiest task, things you like, one by one’.
I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to all our members, past and present, for their devotion throughout all these years and I would like to state clearly that everything we are today is the result of our members’ hard work. In a nutshell, the future of GUBE depends on what our present and future members do.
Thank you for all the hard work in organizing this Exhibition. For those who show their work, congratulations for such remarkable efforts, the dedication and time spent on your works, come rain or shine, during this terribly hot and humid summer.
Hope all our friends, students, members, artists and colleagues find and continue to enjoy the way to their own beautiful and fascinating journey through art.
Kwon Dae Ha
Painter
President, Myeongdong Gallery
SysOp, GUBE (그배- 그림을 배우자 http://cafe.daum.net/artdh)
Message from the member-students
GUBE (그배-그림을 배우자) is the collective name of art students that currently is composed of member students from Myeongdong Art School, the art classes held at the Korea Fair Trade Commission and Samsung Culture Academy in Bundang, under the direction of painter Kwon Dae Ha. Gube is pleased to present the sixth edition of its annual Exhibition of artworks by its member-students and artists in the footsteps of the plentiful and harvest maturing autumn.
As each work and every part of this Exhibition is the fruit of the passion and love towards arts of our busy and hard working members, it is with great pride that we can assure that our works represent a message that each one of us has given to ourselves. Since no professional artist was involved in this Exhibition, certainly we cannot show complete, outstanding and professional artworks as most of the exhibitions do. However each work at this Exhibition is complete and wholesome, a true message to our inner selves, a message derived from the approach we have chosen to our individual core essence, focused on values and aesthetics, invisible perhaps to bare eyes, the fruit of our journey of passion for arts.
Life is more beautiful when it is enjoyed with love and passion, for which we do our best and exert every effort towards beautiful and rewarding results. While preparing this Exhibition we realize that our aim is to live our lives like the autumn sunrays, fully capable of maturing the fruits for the harvest, abundantly and intensely. So please accept our gratitude and appreciation for your undivided support and for being there always for us and keep closely for future outcome from our endeavors.
August 2010
Members of GUBE