Title : °ûÇÑ¿ï °³ÀÎÀü "Flat Void"
Date : 15th, Aug. ~ 07th, Sep., 2025
Opening : 15th, Aug., 2025 (Fri.) 4 PM
Place : Artertain (Yeonhi-dong, Seodaemungu)
Curator : Heeseung Hwang (+82 (0)2-6160-8445)

 

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Landscape of Lines

In the realm of painting, the act of standing before the picture plane extends beyond a mere exploration of visual perception; it implies a tacit attempt to access an entirely different world, guided by the mind. In contemporary society, the pictorial plane regains its original function as painting not when it serves as a simple conduit for logical thought or emotional memory, but when it operates as a threshold to another time and space. Hanoul Gwak¡¯s practice originates from this awareness of the fundamental nature of the pictorial field. The artist regards the picture plane as a possibility?an imagined elsewhere?and investigates the diverse relationships and structures that emerge within it.
A frame, by its very nature, restricts the expansiveness of vision; paradoxically, however, it enables a heightened concentration that invites a multiplicity of imaginative engagements. Gwak delves into this duality of the frame, offering experiences that traverse the boundaries between the ¡®inside¡¯ and ¡®outside¡¯ of the image. Consequently, the pictorial plane no longer remains a fixed boundary of imagery, but rather operates as a medium for expanding thought and perception.
Within the surface, lines emerge and dissolve in an incessant rhythm. At times, they appear in orderly sequences; at others, they entangle unpredictably, constructing and deconstructing the very structure of the picture. The recognition of one line is immediately unsettled by the disjunction of another, generating a visual experience charged with tension and release. These lines function not merely as formal elements but as traces of the artist¡¯s thought?an autonomous visual language rooted in the unconscious beneath the act of thinking.
Dots lingering upon these lines imply motion and rhythm, while gradations of tone evoke mutable spaces. Yet, spectral residues hover across the plane, resistant to complete erasure and refusing objecthood. They persist in an indeterminate state, revealing a realm that operates at the margins of perception?an intimation of the unknown that exposes both the limitations and the potentialities of vision itself.
Occasionally, a thin membrane or mesh emerges across certain parts of the work, ostensibly obstructing the viewer¡¯s gaze. Yet this is not an act of absolute occlusion; rather, it functions as a device that provokes a heightened awareness of seeing. The image beyond the mesh does not constitute a resolved landscape, but an evolving terrain?continuously generated and dismantled, harboring latent possibilities of extension.
Of particular significance is Gwak¡¯s pursuit of ¡°a restrained device that extends beyond the pictorial frame¡±, through which he explores new horizons of painting. These devices liberate the frame from its closed condition, enabling its interaction and resonance with other pictorial planes. His installations invite the viewer into a dynamic experience of physical and psychological movement, transforming the frame from a sealed boundary into a network of thought.
Ultimately, Gwak¡¯s practice can be understood as an investigation into the visual language born within multilayered frames?an endeavor that foregrounds not the presentation of a completed image, but the process of formation itself. The material residues of thought?whether in the traces of erasure or in pigments ground into powder and reconstituted?become the very evidence of an evolving mental landscape. In repeatedly confronting and traversing the frame, the viewer is returned to the threshold once more, caught in a cycle that poses fundamental questions: What is it that we see? And by whose agency is the act of seeing made possible?
Gwak¡¯s works articulate a provisional order within ambiguity, prompting viewers to reflect on the relational dynamics between their gaze and perception. His pictorial landscapes of lines do not assert closure, but instead open onto fields of possibility. The interplay of lines, points, and veils across these planes creates a network through which new sensorial and conceptual terrains may be explored?inviting a renewed journey into the experience of painting itself.
(Text by Gustav Daishik Yim)