Bae Jonghun

I like blue. That draws a lot of blue sky and sea. In blue dreams, hopes, future, determination, enthusiasm and acclaim. Through my paintings I hope you think for a moment to dream.

Memory gradually fades, gets erased, and gets fragmented as time passes. Scents that had felt nothing special at first and landscapes that slid by can stay in memory. However, after time passes, memory splits a bit by bit and goes into an attic called forgetfulness and gets piled up. And it gets all mixed up.

The same goes for the memories from trips. Beautiful landscapes, tasty foods, or even great music slowly go inside darkness and fade. They can be found only at the moment we are confronted with some elements of memories that we can connect or when we intentionally try to pass through the memory tunnel inside our brain since we miss the previous trip.

Traveling is a little fantasy in life. We can live an unrealistic life that we have dreamed of when we stop for a while doing things that we do for our daily life. We can get up late, not hurry, eat delicious foods, or drink coffee at an open-air café, watching people. Or, we can choose not to do anything. The time of our everyday life stops while we travel. We can even live a life as if we ...

1) Solo
-2010/ Zen meets cartoon/ BULIL GALLERY
- 2010/ Imagine travel/ Gallery Darr
- 2012/ BAE JONG HUN Exhibition/ Gallery Darr
(2) Group
- 2009/ POP+CON Exhibition/ Gallery GAC
- 2009/ All of ‘ON & OFF’ Exhibition/ Gallery LAMEZ
- 2009/ ART 2.0 Exhibition/ Gallery Darr
- 2014/ 2014 Buddha ART FESTIVAL
- 2014/ Affodable art fair Stockholm 2014