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《The Medium : Colored, Brushed》, 2023.04.14 – 2023.06.07, IMSOOBIN GALLERY
2023.04.14
“The Medium: Colored, Brushed” Installation view at IMSOOBIN GALLERY ©ArtistIm Sunny (b.1975) is holding a solo exhibition, 《The Medium: Colored, Brushed》 at IMSOOBIN GALLERY 1 and 2 (formerly Ruach Gallery) in Yongsan until June 7. The exhibition aims to showcase the presence of the artist's works through the concepts of flatness and medium in painting, centered on 'color' and 'brushstrokes'.
Im Sunny's work shows an exploration of flatness that reveals the properties of the medium itself, not just its reproduction or content through depiction. Through the basic elements of painting, such as brushstrokes, color, form, and composition, she contrasts them with descriptive paintings, showing painting as a concept of medium and the flatness.
In Brushed Blue, Red, and White Parrots (2021), the parrots are painted with thick and rough brushstrokes, and only the colors of red, orange, blue, and green reveal the presence of their shapes. The objects are painted consistently without significant changes in color depth, removing any sense of depth from the space and suggesting flatness. Another work, Vanitas_The Best Moment (2022), is based on candles and flowers from Vanitas' paintings and uses complementary colors to reveal the presence of each, expressing the emptiness and anxiety between them.
The artist's recent works depart from the traditional perspective, focusing on composing flat surfaces with color. The objects that appear in the works are formed by multiple layers of color, each of which has an organic and natural relationship with the other. In doing so, the artist is addressing issues that she has been struggling with since she began painting, namely the contemporary possibilities of medium and flatness in contemporary Korean painting and the nature of form.
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The Age of ‘Anxiety’ and 'Obsession', Exploring the Duality of Human Nature through Vanitas Still LifeIm Sunny’s solo exhibition《STILL UNSTILL》reinterprets the anxieties, dualities, and uneasy beauty embedded deep within the human psyche through the language of contemporary vanitas still life.
2025.11.04
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《The Medium : Colored, Brushed》, 2023.04.14 – 2023.06.07, IMSOOBIN GALLERYIm Sunny (b.1975) is holding a solo exhibition, The Medium: Colored, Brushed at IMSOOBIN GALLERY 1 and 2 (formerly Ruach Gallery) in Yongsan until June 7. The exhibition aims to showcase the presence of the artist's works through the concepts of flatness and medium in painting, centered on 'color' and 'brushstrokes'.
2023.04.14
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《The Medium : Layered, Lined》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.23, UARTSPACEIn painting, the flatness is the essence of modernist painting and suggests a significant direction and point of view to see a contemporary painting as an independent area that distinguishes it from other artistic genres.
2019.10.16
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《Painting as a medium》, 2017.10.19 – 2017.11.17, UARTSPACEUARTSPACE holds Im Sunny’s solo exhibition ‘Painting as a Medium’ from October 19, 2017 to November 17, 2017. The exhibition introduces artworks of new possibilites and new experiments on applying various techniques of Matisse which show the flatness of paintings as well as the scenes and colors of Cezanne’s visual perception from the early Modernism.
2017.10.19
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《The Flat》, 2015.12.02 – 2015.12.19, Incheon Art PlatformIm Sunny's work begins with the question of what the essence of painting is, and then delves into the perpetual shackles of flatness. Its roots lie not in art, which prioritized representation over the question of the reality of a subject, attempting to capture a three-dimensional illusion within a two-dimensional canvas. Rather, it stems from the pursuit of abstract art, which began as an effort to eliminate this illusion—in other words, the pursuit of the essence of flat painting.
2015.12.02