Enjoying the Art of Kyung Sunghyun

"세렝게티 에서는" - 2010,  Oil on Canvas,  227.3 x 181.8 cm

Korean artist Kyung Sunghyun’s work has a diverse and layered narrative. His work is created through various frameworks, with one of the main foundations being about ‘shakiness’. It’s as if the image is shaky due to an incorrect over exposure on a photograph. In fact, Kyung Sunghyun’s paintings reinvent the overexposed photographic image. However, his reinventions don’t speak specifically about the shakiness of the image, nor does he emphasize that shakiness. To Kyung, shakiness blurs the shape, at the same time revealing his subject’s true emotional and psychological state. At a closer look at his paintings, one finds that images of faces from different angles, such as frontal and side views, are superimposed upon one another. This expression exposes his desire to better reveal his subject in the portrait.

The results often capture a feeling of uneasiness, paranoia, and alienation which is what personally draws me to the work, enjoy….

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"The Student" - 2007, Oil on Canvas , 161.5x161.5cm