2025.03.13 - 2025.04.19

Space Fountain is hosting a solo exhibition <Jeon Ram Hwe> by artist Kim Yong Hoon, who tells stories about beauty by recording changing objects such as flowers and fruits based on the medium of photography. Artist Kim Yong Hoon records the most 'colorful' moments when flowers shine. The moment of splendid beauty, when flowers are in buds and wait until they bloom fully, is captured and reconstructed anew through the artist's perspective. This exhibition shows the inevitable fate of humans, such as birth and death, life and death, through the most splendid moments through <Colorful>, which is themed on flowers, and <So Please>, which is centered on fruits.

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'Still life,' which emerged after the 16th century, is a genre that has become its own in the tradition of Western painting by newly arranging stationary everyday objects such as fruits, flowers, porcelain, and tableware in a space other than nature. The characteristic of Still Life, which means something that does not move, is transformed in a new way in Kim Yong Hoon's photography. Artist Kim Yong Hoon, who captures the flow of time through a combination of flowers and ceramics using the medium of photography, which aims to record, has developed a special method of expression that is both photography and painting. The artist spends time combining the shape and pattern of ceramics, as well as the type and color of flowers, creating a moment of maximized beauty through this. Through the beauty that unfolds in a virtual space, the artist shows the transience of life that disappears as time passes like Western still lifes, while at the same time reconstructing a peaceful moment that reaches its peak to show an Eastern worldview that contemplates life.

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Oriental painting's traditional day paintings are also similar to Western painting's still life paintings in that they are based on everyday objects that are stationary and do not move. The fact that fruits, ceramics, lotuses, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, and other flower tree branches or tree branches are the main subjects is in line with Kim Yong Hoon's work. Here, the artist divides the screen into upper and lower parts and combines two color planes. Then, by arranging flowers and ceramics in this divided space, he creates a refined screen where nature, artificiality, color, and form are organically connected. Beyond the memory of death, the wish for a harmonious and balanced life is expressed as a state of absolute and ideal beauty. The shapes of flowers and fruits spread out in a delicately created vacuum space separate us from the noisy reality. The artist's screen, which is gently and harmoniously blended like the watercolors of Western painting and the ink and wash of Eastern painting, connects different things, such as nature and humans, joy and sorrow, and life and death. Just as our lives are completed by the collection of disparate moments, the appearance of flowers that change from moment to moment shows the courage to contemplate life beyond the transience of life. Kim Yong Hoon's flowers are the elixir of desire that dreams of immortal life and peach blossoms that bloom in a paradise beyond fear and failure.