2017. 10. 21 - 11. 30 2GIL29 GALLERY (이길이구 갤러리) T. 02-6203-2015
권영호 초대전_UNEXPECTED
권영호 작가는 1968년생으로 우리나라의 1세대 패션포토그래퍼로 명성을 날린 후 순수예술사진으로 한국미술계에서 많은 미술애호가들에게 사랑받고 있는 작가이다.
이번 2GIL29 GALLERY (이길이구 갤러리) 에서 전시되는 작품들은 작가 개인적으로는 7년만의 개인전이다.
새로운 신작 30여점을 만나볼 수 있다.
2GIL29 Gallery presents Unexpected from October 21 through November 30, 2017, a solo show of Youngho Kwon (b. 1968), one of the key artists in the Korean photography scene. After graduating from Chung-Ang University with a diploma in photography, he has constantly produced creative photographic works with which he garnered at his young age of 29 the Fashion Journalist Prize, the most prestigious award in the Korean fashion world. Only a few words are not enough to describe this photographer who has been active for 20 years, crossing the boundaries between commercial and artistic photography. Known as one of Korea’s top photographers for years, he has worked in a wide variety of visual mediums such as film posters, pictures for noted magazines, and commercial films. A hallmark of his works is that they are couched in “a natural language.” His veritable philosophy on photography and his subjects is an extension of this language he employs for artistic representation. He stated, “Photography is not to take pictures of subjects but to hold inner movements through such subjects.” As such, he has intended to maintain his own distinctive visual idioms. His new pieces on display at this exhibition are in the form of a personal diary. He has been immersed in the nature of his photographic subjects and explored something more than photography. His works couched in his sensuous idioms can be thought of as products of unexpected records depending on the flow of his emotion and time. Since the invention of the camera was announced in 1839 at the French Academy of Sciences for the first time in the world, photography has grown explosively. Photography is now firmly established as a major art genre, more obviously taking up the heart of contemporary art than any other genre. In the Korean contemporary art scene, many artists have built up their own art world while addressing the medium of photography with great interest. Kwon has drawn attention at the center of this tendency. This exhibition will serve as an opportunity for viewers to catch a glimpse of his visual diary. He has made efforts not to miss any moment of diversity and abundance in this rapidly changing world. The scenes he has captured with such efforts bring about unexpected, unfamiliar beauty springing from the ordinary in everyday life. Kwon’s pictures clearly demonstrate the force awkward, unfamiliar scenes may retain even though photography is a representational means to display familiar scenes and objects. While facing the world of photographer Youngho Kwon who has struggled to move beyond the boundaries between commerce and art, we discover his new photographs into which his sedate life filters, not any abstruse, pedantic pictures. That is, we are deeply touched by his photographs – although they convey some private meaning – because they are quite beguiling and draw us to them.