유쾌한 뭉툭 Pleasantly Bluntly

• 김정헌, 주재환 2인전  Kim Jungheun & Joo Jaehwan 
• 2018년 6월 10일 – 7월 8일 
• 통의동 보안여관 Artspace Boan 1942
• Commenter / 강신대 이우성 홍진훤 Kang Sindae, Lee Woosung, Hong Jinhwon
• Curator / 박수지 Park Suzy

김정헌, 주재환의 2인전 <유쾌한 뭉툭>은 동료비평을 매개로 전개된다. 민중미술은 1980년대의 시대 상황에 한정된 미술경향 또는 시대사조로 읽으려는 해석과, 민중미술의 동시대성을 발견하려는 해석이 여전히 치열한 영역이다. 이번 전시는 김정헌,주재환 두 작가의 미발표작과 신작을 중심으로 ‘작업을 하는 작가’라는 현재적 영역을 들여다본다. 민중미술의 카테고리가 두 작가에게 부여하는 상징과 한계를 뛰어넘고자 하는 전시다. 40여년간 비평적 동료관계로 지내며 작업을 해온 두 작가의 면면을 작품과 두 작가의 발화 행위를 통해 드러내며, 잠정적 동료 작가들(강신대, 이우성, 홍진훤)의 코멘트로 부대낌의 가능성을 모색한다. ‘작업을 지속하는 것’과 ‘작업을 지속하게하는 동료의 힘’이라는 주제로 비평적 동료의 가능성을 견인하고자 한다.

Pleasantly Bluntly is a two-person exhibition by Kim Jungheon and Joo Jaehwan. The exhibition unfolds with a peer critique between the two artists. Minjung Misul(the people’s art) is a contested territory where two different views – one that read it as an artistic trend or the trend of the times that took place under the context of the 1980s and another that tries to find its enduring contemporariness. The current exhibition presents new works and previously unexhibited works by Kim Jungheon and Joo Jaehwan, focusing on their present territory of being ‘working artists.’ In doing so,the exhibition attempts to overcome the symbols that have been given to the artists by the category of Minjung Misuland the limitations that entail. Through the act of speech by the two artists, Pleasantly Bluntly shows different aspects of the artists who have been engaged as critical colleagues for over 40 years. By inviting comments by their potential fellow artists (Kang Sindae, Lee Woosung, and Hong Jinhwon), the exhibition also tries to find a possibility of contact between the two artists and other artists in a different generation. In this way, it attempts to overcome the limitation of Minjung Misul that is being historicized or becoming an established legacy in the Korean art history. At the same time, the exhibition explores the possibility of the relationship of being critical colleagues to each other, presented under the themes of ‘maintaining one’s practice’and ‘the strength of colleagues that makes it possible for one to keep one’s practice.’

 

Sep. 2018

Ilsan

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