Hyunwook Ryu

It is likely to be seen ridiculous, if artists think themselves they are too serious all the matters of their lives. It is enough to keep a diary or journal telling their real stories, and sometimes life is full of absurdity. .
Nevertheless, a lot of what I have done just follow my individual rhythms. Performing tempo from slow to fast have been done without any probable explanation and it corresponds to an inexplicable spontaneous body response above and beyond any kind of deductive reasoning. Set aside personal reason, as many other things would be the same as the way man-made story is.

My pictures deal with the concept of lightness. More precisely, it deals with ‘lightness, or heaviness’. It may have been involved with my personal life, or my perspective to see the world, yet it is about something mortal. Remembering from what happened in my life, the lightness visits one when one feels tremendous burden of life, and whose quality is different that of ‘emptiness’ or ‘nihilistic sentiment’ in its temperature.
My painting is grounded in the feeling of sadness, which comes from the personal life, sometimes very attached to the lightness.

B.F.A Yeungnam University
M.F.A Yeungnam University

Solo Exhibition
2016 'The Mourning Forest', Gallery Bundo , Daegu,
Korea
2013 miscellaneous □ Memory and Being / LEEAHN
GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2011 Light 2011 Ha jung-woong Young Artists
Invitation Exhibition / Gwangju Museum of Art,
Gwangju, Korea
2009 Painting / Pohang, korea
2008 LEEAHN GALLERY / Daegu, Korea
2006 R/Reduction / Ssamzie Market Gallery, Daegu,
Korea
2005 Space 129 / Daegu, Korea
2005 Hankeesook Gallery / Daegu, Korea
1998 Yeungnam University / Daegu, Korea

Selected Group Exhibition
2018 'Abstract Thought', Gallery Center City,
Cheonan, Korea
2017 'Every Breath You Take', Suchang Youth
Mansion, Daegu, Korea
2016 'ART LAB', Shinsegae, Seoul, Korea
2015 'Fly to me', Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
2014 'Super Romantics', Daegu Art Factory, Korea
2012 'The Power', Hankeesook Gallery, Daegu,
Korea
2011 Looking back 2010 / LEEAHN GALLERY,
Changwon, Korea
2010 my story / gallery silla, Daegu, Korea
2010 art-road 77 / art factory, heiri, Korea
2009 Garden of desire / KT&G, Daegu, Korea
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