Jeehoon Stark
About
Jihoon Stark's work blends the psychological emotions reliant on a child's pure gaze with the physical interpretations of his time as a strict architect, manifesting in metaphorical yet tangible spaces. By examining the structures imbued with dual perspectives, one can indirectly feel the everyday spaces the artist has experienced through multilayered colors and handwritten explanations. The themes, too, such as civilization and nature, East and West, past and present, micro and macro, are depicted on the canvas as binary opposites mingling together in a vacuum-like state. Stark varies his structural drawings into paintings, reinterprets discarded architectural materials into reliefs, and transforms architectural models into ceramic works, believing that such diverse media traversals allow for vigilance against habitual traces, thereby expressing the purity of painting. Consequently, all elements constituting his canvas create a synesthetic virtual world through organic relationships.
์งํ ์คํํฌ์ ์์ ์ ์์ํ ์ด๋ฆฐ์ด์ ์์ ์ ์ํํ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ ์์ ์์ ํ ๊ฑด์ถ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ง๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ํด์์ด ํจ๊ป ๊ต์ฐจ๋์ด ์์ ์ ์ด๋ฉด์๋ ์ค์ ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋๋ค. ์๋ฉด์ ์์ ์ด ๋ด๊ธด ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ค์ธต์ ์ธ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ์๊ธ์จ ์ค๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํํ๋ ์ผ์์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก๋๋ง ๋๊ปด๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ์ญ์ ๋ฌธ๋ช ๊ณผ ์์ฐ, ๋์๊ณผ ์์, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ํ์ฌ, ๋ฏธ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ฑ์ ์ดํญ๋๋ฆฝ ์์๊ฐ ๋ง์น ์ง๊ณต ์ํ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ น์ ๋ค์ด ํจ๊ป ๋ ๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ๋๋ก์์ ๋ณ์ฃผํ์ฌ ํํ๋ก ์ฌํํ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๋ ค์ง ๊ฑด์ถ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ์กฐํฉํด ๋ถ์กฐ๋ก ์ฌํด์ํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฑด์ถ ๋ชจํ์ ๋ณ์ฉํ์ฌ ๋์ ์์ ์ผ๋ก ํํํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ๋ฏ ๋ค์ํ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ค๊ฐ๋ ์์ ์ ํตํด ์ต๊ด์ ํ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณํ ์ ์๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ผ์ผ๋ก์จ ํํ์ ์์์ฑ์ ํํํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ์ ํ๋ฉด์ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์์๋ค์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ณต๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ธ๋ค.
Selected Works
Banana Nina and some whiskey cups (LUMI KUKE salt to taste - series)2023 acrylics, oil crayons, wax color pencils, and graphite on tela oil paper 90x100 cm
Egyptian Landscape2020 oil, oil sticks, oil crayons on tela canvas paper 50x42cm
Egyptian Landscape2020 oil, oil sticks, oil crayons on tela canvas paper 50x42cm
Mr. Kim's Auto Garage with no Kitchen (LUMI KUKE salt to taste - series)2023 acrylics, oil crayons, wax color pencils, and graphite on tela oil paper 90x100 cm
Kitchen Composition #12021 acrylics, oil crayons, and graphite on tela oil paper 36ร30 cm
Kitchen Poster of 1963 Falcon with Hawaiian Mountains (LUMI KUKE salt to taste - series)2023 acrylics, oil crayons, wax, color pencils, and graphite on tela oil paper 90x100 cm
Exhibitions