ONE'S COMPOSITION

Tac O, Jeehoon Stark

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2023.12.01(Fri) - 12.19(Fri)


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Tac O, Jeehoon Stark

The Azulejo Gallery's final exhibition of the year aims to define the totality of perspectives experienced by an individual within space and time as "subjectivity." Through the works of Tac O and Jihoon Stark, the exhibition creates a moment for reflection, reminding us of the often-overlooked individual viewpoints amidst the diverse and blended elements on the canvas. Like variations that breathe life into a familiar rhythm, this exhibition hopes to question the perspectives projected by the invisible unconscious, instinct, or social awareness, offering a chance to break free from these confines.


Tac O's work resonates with the human nature of seeking balance amidst ambiguous boundaries. Symbols and representations that may seem unrelated approach us with a sense of unfamiliarity, feeling like a collection of elements that are often seen as extreme contrasts, such as subject and object, painting and design, text and image. The artist focuses on the intricate relationships between the elements that construct narratives, bestowing new aesthetic value on what is hidden or exists in between. His exploration of relative perspectives through ambiguous media and elements provides a precarious experience of selective interpretation in a world where absolute interpretations do not exist, questioning individual subjectivity amidst phenomena that are easily objectified.


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.


The lives of these two artists, traversed as illustrators and architects, are represented in their paintings. The narratives purely sparked from within, escaping predetermined standards, return to the artists' lives. However, while Tac O intentionally constructs his canvases to discuss aesthetic value, Jihoon Stark explores the aesthetic value created by the elements constituting the canvas. Reflecting on Milan Kundera's words, "Even in the deepest moments of despair, humans unconsciously compose their lives according to the laws of beauty," one might reconsider the direction of life by following the stories ultimately embroidered on the flat surfaces by these two artists.


์•„์ค„๋ ˆ์ฃผ ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ „์‹œ๋กœ์„œ ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์† ๊ด€์ ์˜ ์ด์ฒด๋ฅผ ‘์ฃผ์ฒด์„ฑ’์œผ๋กœ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜ค์ •ํƒ๊ณผ ์ง€ํ›ˆ ์Šคํƒ€ํฌ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™”๋ฉด ์† ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ˜ผ์žฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์š”์†Œ๋“ค ํ‹ˆ์—์„œ ํ๋ ค์ง€๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ผ๊นจ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ํšŒ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์–ด์˜จ ์ฃผ๋œ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์— ์ƒ๋ช…๋ ฅ์„ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ๋Š” ๋ณ€์ฃผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฌด์˜์‹๊ณผ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์ธ์‹์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํˆฌ์˜๋˜์–ด ์˜จ ๊ด€์ ๋“ค์— ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ํ‹€์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค.


์˜ค์ •ํƒ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฒœ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์นซ ์—ฐ๊ด€์ด ์—†๋Š” ๋“ฏ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ธฐํ˜ธ์™€ ํ‘œ์ƒ์€ ๋‚ฏ์„  ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฒด์™€ ๊ฐ์ฒด, ํšŒํ™”์™€ ๋””์ž์ธ, ํ…์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ทน๋‹จ์˜ ๋น„๊ต ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋†“์ด๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผ์žฌ๋œ ์ง‘ํ•ฉ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์˜ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ํ˜น์€ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฏธํ•™์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ๊ด€์ ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•œ ๋งค์ฒด์™€ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์ž‘์—… ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๋“ฏ ์ ˆ๋Œ€์  ํ•ด์„์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์ฃผ์ฒด์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌผ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ๊ด€ํ™”๋˜์–ด ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์ง„ ํ˜„์ƒ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด ์„ ํƒ์  ํ•ด์„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์•„์Šฌ์•„์Šฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์„ ์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค.


์ง€ํ›ˆ ์Šคํƒ€ํฌ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์— ์˜ํƒํ•œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ์ •์„œ์™€ ์—„์ •ํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ง€๋ƒˆ๋˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ํ•ด์„์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ต์ฐจ๋˜์–ด ์€์œ ์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์‹ค์ œ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค. ์–‘๋ฉด์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์ด ๋‹ด๊ธด ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ค์ธต์ ์ธ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ์†๊ธ€์”จ ์„ค๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ผ์ƒ์  ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ„์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋А๊ปด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์ œ ์—ญ์‹œ ๋ฌธ๋ช…๊ณผ ์ž์—ฐ, ๋™์–‘๊ณผ ์„œ์–‘, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํ˜„์žฌ, ๋ฏธ์‹œ์™€ ๊ฑฐ์‹œ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ดํ•ญ๋Œ€๋ฆฝ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ง„๊ณต ์ƒํƒœ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™”๋ฉด์— ๋…น์•„ ๋“ค์–ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋– ๋ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰์„ ๋ณ€์ฃผํ•˜์—ฌ ํšŒํ™”๋กœ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ๊ฑด์ถ• ์ž์žฌ๋ฅผ ์กฐํ•ฉํ•ด ๋ถ€์กฐ๋กœ ์žฌํ•ด์„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฑด์ถ• ๋ชจํ˜•์„ ๋ณ€์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋„์˜ˆ ์ž‘์—…์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ‡๋“ฏ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์Šต๊ด€์˜ ํ”์ ์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์œผ๋กœ์จ ํšŒํ™”์  ์ˆœ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ์˜ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์€ ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณต๊ฐ๊ฐ์  ๊ฐ€์ƒ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ธ๋‹ค.


์ผ๋Ÿฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋กœ์„œ ์ง€๋‚˜ ์˜จ ๋‘ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์‚ถ์€ ํšŒํ™”๋กœ ํ‘œ์ƒ๋˜๊ณ , ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ทœ๊ฒฉ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํžˆ ๋ฐœํ™”๋œ ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์‚ถ์œผ๋กœ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์˜ค์ •ํƒ์€ ๋ฏธ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋…ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ , ์ง€ํ›ˆ ์Šคํƒ€ํฌ๋Š” ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ‘์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊นŠ์€ ์ ˆ๋ง์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์—์„œ์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ฌด์‹ฌ๊ฒฐ์— ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€์˜ ๋ฒ•์น™์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ์ž‘๊ณกํ•œ๋‹ค’๋˜ ๋ฐ€๋ž€ ์ฟค๋ฐ๋ผ์˜ ๋ง์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๋‘ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ข…๊ตญ์— ํ‰๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ํšŒ๊ท€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜๋†“์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ซ“์•„ ๋ณธ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์žฌ๊ณ ํ•ด ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ.

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