Sungshik
Moon
b.
1980, born in Gimchun, Korea and based in
Seoul, Korea.
Moon
was just graduated from the Korean National
University of Arts, Seoul. Moon paints ordinary
scenes of everyday life, at a street, a
school, a park in his neighbor, and they
are turned into a virtual landscape in his
paintings. Moon catches the moment when
the weak and organic in nature are transformed
and processed into something else by artificial
structure and order imposed by human beings.
As if looking into a microscope, Moon examines,
dissects, and delineates a mountain, a forest,
and trees that are artificially prettified,
idealized, and made unrealistic to their
final details. A garden shaped in a perfect
square or Chinese juniper trees that are
piled up in a round column show the intense
clash and tension between the orderly and
the wild.
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Sungshik Moon, Rectangular Garden, acrylic
on canvas, 112x324cm
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Sungshik Moon, Talking Trees, 2004, water
color on paper, 56x38 cm, 6 pieces in one
series
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