"The road that I walked yesterday” Installation view. ©Hanwon Museum of ArtThe Hanwon Museum of Art presents Minwook Jin (b. 1980)’s solo exhibition “The road that I walked yesterday” through December 16.
The Hanwon Museum of Art was established in 1993 by the Hanwon Group to promote fine art through research and exhibition. The museum holds solo exhibitions of artists who have played a significant role in the Korean art scene and presents their new works to examine the creative process behind their artistic practices.
“The road that I walked yesterday” features new works by the artist Minwook Jin. Jin creates Korean paintings within the context of contemporary art. She paints a subdued and tranquil landscape by applying pigments to both the front and back sides of the silk as she contemplates the properties of silk and the transformation of the medium of oriental painting.
Jin presents a modern interpretation of Sangchoon, or an evergreen paradise. Traditional Eastern landscape paintings depict vast, remote landscapes, such as majestic mountains and rivers. Jin, instead, depicts a small paradise filled with everyday objects that she encounters while walking around the city.
The exhibition presents works created between 2019 and 2022. The Stroll and See series depicts the artist’s own imaginative paradise composed of objects she found, sensed, and remembered while repeatedly walking through specific locations in Seoul. In another group of artworks, the artist combines images from classical Eastern literature to depict nature that we cannot see with our eyes. These images are expressed on canvas in the shape of a traditional picture book or a folding screen and experiment with non-traditional Korean painting materials, such as charcoal and white clay with pigments.
Artist Minwook Jin has held solo and group exhibitions at a number of Korean art institutions and galleries, including Seoul National University Museum of Art (Seoul, 2022), Seongnam Cube Art Museum (Seongnam, 2019), Icheon Municipal Woljeon Museum of Art (Icheon, 2018), Daegu Art Factory (Daegu, 2017), and Sungkok Museum of Art (Seoul, 2015).
