crossconnectmag: Joonsung Bae was born in Kwangju, Korea (1967) and educated in National Unive
Joonsung Bae was born in Kwangju, Korea (1967) and educated in National University of Seoul. He has exhibited in France, Madrid, Moscow, Art Basel, Brussels, Seoul, etc.
Joonsung Bae borrows images from masterpieces in the history of the Eastern and Western art, and incorporates them into his own inventiveness. The images he borrowed are figure paintings or still lives by such masters as David, Ingres, Corot, Courbet, Van Dyck and Velazquez. He compounds photography and painting reproduction in an effort to interpret anew the major concepts of the Western art history. Bae’s in his earlier works reproduced costume painting on clear acrylic film covers parts of naked figure photograph. The film on which costumes were painted do not completely adhere to the surface of photographs (or canvases), creating a layer which allows for a sense of space and distance. In his work process, he is exploring the “construction of painting,” and suggesting that the painting can be a process of forming layers of compound images.
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