Exhibitions
《Painting as a medium》, 2017.10.19 – 2017.11.17, UARTSPACE
2017.10.19
UARTSPACE
Installation view of 《Painting as a medium》 ©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.
Installation view of 《Painting as a medium》 ©UARTSPACEIn her major work Red Cushion, the artist first took a picture of an object, dismantled the perspective using photoshop and reconstructed the colors of a canvas and the forms of an object. And then, she took advantage of Matisse’s brushstrokes, colors, and Cezanne’s visual-perceptual methods in her own ways in order to reveal an apporach by medium on paintings and the process of research. Besides, the exhibition covers ‘Flowerpot’ series expressing mainly on brushstrokes, A Sitting Child exploring primarily on colors, Avalon Cafe, and Escalator utilizing methods of compositions and forms of an object and sketch works with brushes.
Installation view of 《Painting as a medium》 ©UARTSPACEThe point of view to perceive a painting as an ‘object’ or ‘medium’ started from Gerhard Richter (Germany, 1932), who has developed Post Conceptual Paintings in response to crisis theory of a painting. In addition, it has further made gradual progress through a series of artists like David Hockney (England, 1937) who endeavored to rebuild a new ‘Point of View’ or ‘Perspective’ in their own artistic ways since Impressionism. So, the exhibition by Im Sunny looks back on modern approach of ‘Painting as a Medium’ in regard to major art historical achievements of a painting established by artists in the Western, and it also sets up the stage to grasp the ways of settling down on the topographic map of Korean paintings.
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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
Exhibitions
《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