SPACE & MEMORY & LAYER & COLOUR
Chun Mi-Jin
<<Artist statement>>
I focus on the continuous relationship between space and subject change. The flow of feelings and thoughts as an architect in the past that I experienced in a dynamic space and a static void space continues to be connected and proceeds continuously while working on paintings now. In my work, colour and form are continuously overlapped. In my paintings, the overlapping meaning is temporality, spatiality, physical reality, the empty essence of the past that cannot be grasped, and the present hope. The things that are transparent, delicate, and weak are the illusions of the past and the organisms that make the present stronger. In the space, colors and shapes are separated, overlapped, mixed and combined with each other, taking a different look from the original essence. The subtle emotions and memories felt in the three-dimensional material space are piled up and condensed on the two-dimensional paper and canvas to show the changing eternity.
<<Bio>>
Chun Mi-Jin, South Korean born artist, who currently lives in Genoa, Italy, has a background majoring in painting in Korea. After studying Fine Art at Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea, she flew to Germany and continued to study architecture at the German University of Stuttgart and worked as an architect in Germany. After ten years living in Germany, then she moved to Italy with her family where she is now focusing on three-dimensional works and paintings. Her work (Con-creARte) has been exhibited at SaloneSatellite in Milan, Italy and published in various magazines. With this multicultural background, she focuses on architectural fine art and pictorial spatiality. The important elements in her work are unconscious space, form and color. Chun expresses architectural structural geometric forms and free, accidental and spontaneous expression techniques of painting on canvas at the same time. Combinations of contrast and contradictory perspectives, she drives to create new relationships and artistic values.
<<Curriculum Vitae>>
천미진/ Chun Mi-Jin
Born in Seoul in 1979
Education
2010 Dipl.-Ing, Department of Architecture, The Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart in Deutschland)2003 BFA, Department of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul, South KoreaExhibitions (Solo)
Gallery IN “Trans in Trance”, Seoul, Korea, 2024
Exhibitions (selected)
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Pell Lucy “Slant Dazzle”, Massachusetts, USA, 2024Casa degli Artisti, “In viaggio da 140 anni”, Milan, Italy, 2024Yangpyeong Art Museum, “Two Waves “Yangpyeong, Korea, 2024Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, “In viaggio da 140 anni”, Rome, Italy, 2024Villa Contarini di Piazzola sul Brenta, “Cento Artisti in Villa”, Padua, Italy, 2024Westbeth Gallery “Luminous Elsewheres”, New York, NY, USA, 2023Sala Espositiva Laives, Arcoi “On Uncertain Grounds”, Laives, Bolzano, Italy, 2023Galata Museo del Mare, Mostra d’arte Contemporanea, “Life Beyond Plastic Il Mare e’ di tutti”, Genoa, Italy, 2023Galleria il Leone, La musica di Ennio Morricone mostra tributo al compositore italiano “Non Servono Parole", Rome, Italy, 2022Ex Fornace, Arcoi “K-Art/Bastardi Affascinanti”, Milan, Italy, 2022Korean Cultural Center, Arcoi “Gocce nell’Oceano”, Rome, Italy, 2022The Piano Craft Gallery, Pell Lucy “In Praise of Form”, Boston, USA, 2022Cortile dell’ARTiglieria, Paratissima Talents, Turin, Italy, 2022Pell Lucy Summer Exhibition “Indelibles” at SHIM Art Network Newyork, Artsy (Online exhibition), 2021Paratissima Exhibit and Fair, Cortile dell’ARTiglieria Turin, Italy, 2021Galerie Sakura “Sneakers Generation”, Paris, France, 2021Satura Palazzo Stella “Il Mare Dentro“, Genoa, Italy, 2021Boomer gallery “Artsy Mood”, London, UK, 2021Salone Satellite / Salone del mobile “Con-creARte”, Milan, Italy, 2014Prizes
Premio Internazionale 2022 (27 ° edizione del Premio SaturARTE 2022 – Concorso Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea)Prize Paratissima 2021 (Talent prize 2021)Interview / Publication / Magazine
Friendoftheartist 2022 “The Studio Image Project”Art Continue 2022 November "2023 ART CONTINUE Nominated Artists Magazine"Iknoess 2022 May “Memories arrested in space with Chun Mi-Jin”Fragolosa 2022 May “CHUN MI-JIN e LA PITTURA DELLA MENTE”Feeldesain 2014 April “CASA & GIARDINO 2014 July / August N.425”