๋ฐฑ์ผ๋ชฝ : Day dreaming

Rhee hyunan


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Exhibition Details

2025.03.06(Thu) - 04.05(Sat)


Artist

Rhee hyunan

The exhibition [Day dreaming] by Rhee hyunan is now on view at Azulejo Gallery.


Every present moment instantly transitions into the past, and human life is filled with an overwhelming accumulation of past experiences compared to the present or future. These past moments, which cannot be deleted or replayed, sometimes reappear unexpectedly in dreams—refracted and transformed through encounters with today’s events and desires. The paintings of Rhee Hyun-an seem to exist somewhere in between the past and the present, between dreams and reality. A peculiar familiarity in the unfamiliar—this is the result of the artist editing and reconstructing yesterday’s memories as they intersect with today. He said, “Art is a midday dream in which the familiar is experienced in an unfamiliar way.”


Images, derived from visual and experiences, undergo a long process of maturation and fermentation, becoming the raw materials for dreams. These images either hybridize with one another or evolve independently, stripping away color, stopping time and space, and even erasing sound. Within this monochromatic canvas, they emerge as protagonists, supporting characters, or backgrounds.


Storytelling is the most crucial and enjoyable element for the him, which is why the paintings feel both realistic and subtly dramatized. These narratives are not excessively exaggerated departures from daily life, nor do they rely on unconventional materials to stimulate superficial visual sensations. They neither intimidate the viewer with grandiose theories nor leave them bewildered.


Instead, he invites us to see the familiar in a new way, continuously discovering fresh subjects and weaving them into poetic narratives with literary imagination. By refining and distilling these elements, He encourages viewers to engage in their own process of contemplation and imaginative enjoyment. Through painting, which transcends mere form and composition, he seeks to remind us—like a fleeting midday dream—of the extraordinary, beautiful, and mysterious nature of life itself.



์•„์ค„๋ ˆ์ฃผ ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ดํ˜„์•ˆ์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ [๋ฐฑ์ผ๋ชฝ Day dreaming]์ด ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๋ชจ๋“  ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์ธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ˜„์ƒ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋‚˜ ํ˜„์žฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์••๋„์ ์ธ ์–‘์˜ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
์‚ญ์ œ๋„ ์žฌ์ƒ๋„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋“ค์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๊ณผ ์š•๋ง์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ๊ตด์ ˆ๋˜๊ณ  ๋ณ€ํ˜•๋œ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆํ˜„๋“ฏ ๊ฟˆ์†์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
์ดํ˜„์•ˆ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ, ๊ฟˆ๊ณผ ํ˜„์‹ค์‚ฌ์ด ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ฆˆ์Œ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋‚ฏ์ต์€ ๋‚ฏ์„ฌ. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋“ค๊ณผ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๊ต์ ‘์„ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„๋Œ€๋กœ ํŽธ์ง‘ํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” “์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ด๋ž€ ๋‚ฏ์ต์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋‚ฏ์„ค๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ๋‚ฎ์˜ ๊ฟˆ” ์ด๋ผ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.


์‹œ๊ฐ์ , ํ–‰์œ„์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค์ด ์˜ค๋žœ ์ˆ™์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐœํšจ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ฟˆ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค ๊ฐ„์— ์ด์ข…๊ต๋ฐฐ ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ๋‹จ๋…์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”๋˜์–ด ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋ฐ•์ œํ•˜์—ฌ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์กฐ์ฐจ๋„ ์†Œ๊ฑฐ๋œ ํ‘๋ฐฑ์˜ ๋ชจ๋…ธํ†ค ์†์—์„œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋ง์— ์ฃผ์—ฐ์ด๋‚˜ ์กฐ์—ฐ, ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. 


์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋ง์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ๋ช…์ œ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฐ์ƒ‰๋œ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ด์œ ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์€ ์ผ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณผ์žฅ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋ง์ดˆ์  ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ์œ ์ธํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•œ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ด€๊ฐ์„ ๊ฒ์ฃผ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์–ด๋ฆฌ๋‘ฅ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.


์ด๋ ‡๋“ฏ ๋ฌด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋ณด๋˜ ๋‚ฏ์ต์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋Š˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์†Œ์žฌ๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋ฌธํ•™์  ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ž…ํžˆ๊ณ  ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ •์ œํ•ด ๋‚ด์–ด ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„์˜ ์ƒ์ƒ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์œ ์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์— ๋น ์ง€๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์กฐํ˜•์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์˜ ็”Ÿ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ทน์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ณ  ์‹ ๋น„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค๋กœ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ•œ๋‚ฎ์— ์ž ๊น ๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฟˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•œ๋‹ค.


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