Inkie WHANG, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art
Birth
1951, Chungju
Genre
Painting, Installation
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Inkie WHANG's Solo Exhibition_curated by Jae Hyun KANG
Hwang Inkie reinterprets scenes of nature around him or traditional Korean landscape paintings and reconstructs them with modern means to create a new form of landscape painting which he dubbed "digital landscape." In so doing, he has earned a reputation as an artist at the confluence of the East and the West, and tradition and modernity. Having experienced the cultures of Korea and the US, studied applied physics and fine art, and experienced directly opposing traditional and counter-cultures, Hwang describes his artistic tendency as a mix of different cultures and multiple values. The artist’s extensive and varied experience has allowed him to reflect both values inherent to nature and results of cool-headed analysis of the structure of the real world in his painting quite freely. This is entirely in keeping with his never missing the latest trends in the global art world while living close to nature.