Yoon Suk One’s new body of work is showcased at Seoul's Gallery Baton in a solo exhibition entitled “Things Not Seen,” which runs through August 20.The exhibition is a continuation of Yoon’s previous series “Trilogy of Memory and Emotions,” with new oil-based paintings. The works delve into the past through the artist's selection of a variety of events that occurred before he was born. This enables him to maintain a psychological and physical distance from these specific events, helping him draw his own analyses of what happened during these periods. As such, he moves away from his previous series “Deferred Things,” 2013 and “Growing Things,” 2014, in which he implemented his own personal experiences into his works.Yet, Yoon Suk One is mostly recognized for infusing his work with emotion. For instance, his recent series of monochrome paintings of old statues focuses on the sculptures’ transformed appearances due to the weather and erosion. He creates new scenes by depicting the lapse of time and the transition due to the environment that the sculptures went through.Similarly, in this new body of work, the achromatic surface aims to convey the artist's feelings, commemorating these past events based on photographs and other records collected by him. “It is an action of adding subjective elements such as personal recollections and emotions to objective incidents that the community has gone through,” according to a press release.Yoon Suk One is a young emerging artist based in Seoul and was one of the artists selected by the 37th Joongang Fine Arts Prize. He was also a resident artist at Cheongju Art Studio and Gyeonggi Creation Center.“Things Not Seen” runs through August 20 at Gallery Baton, Seoul.
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