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LEE & BAE is pleased to announce an exhibition of ‘The Essence of Painting’ from November 4th to December 12th, 2022. Jinwook Yeom and Woolim Lee, who are recognized by domestic and foreign art critics, present their works to Korean art lovers first ahead of the significant overseas exhibition with LEE & BAE in 2023. In this exhibition which consists of non-sale works, the viewers can appreciate the works of two competent artists in advance, and along with the support we expect that Jinwook Yeom and Woolim Lee play a major role in introducing the excellence of Korean art in the global art market.

The mountain is stored in memory as beautiful scenery, or many different familiar and ordinary shapes. Jinwook Yeom’s ‘Memory of Mountain’ series is reproduced on a quiet but dynamic canvas and shows the essence of painting. On the canvas, countless planted trees, overlapping forests, fog across them, and spaces such as roads are located flexibly. The boundaries between things and things, and the viewer and what the viewer sees are ambiguous. A solid mountain that sways slowly with the flow of wind and air, a mountain in reality but passes by without being caught, a mountain painted deeply within and exists as an abstract image that seems continuous but not continuous, all this ungraspable scenery of time and space comes as another mountain and now we can experience the mountain as a pictorial representation that leads us to recall and perceive.

Woolim Lee’s ‘In the Woods’ series, which expresses a dreamlike space where reality and imagination exist together under the theme of ‘dream,’ presents works that cross the boundary between real and unreal through extremely realistic objects such as woods and characters. Various emotional variations are attempted in a space where reality and imagination are vaguely mixed. The harmony of peacefulness, friendliness, and unfamiliarity with tension in reality releases new energy that breaks the boundary between reality and imagination. A new space is created between gaps by crossing the boundaries between dreams and reality and giving full play to infinite imagination which the concept of time has disappeared. Space-time on the canvas crosses another space by flowing down along the background and character, repeating come and back from one world to another world, and connecting without distinction between reality and imagination, fiction and reality, and inside and outside.