SHIN Jung Deok
Born in 1949, works and lives in Daejeon, South Korea.
Shin Jung Deok’s recent series Kaleidoscope has been named after the optical device that yields varying colors and patterns as several mirrors inside the tube reflect beads, pebbles, or bits of glass. Invented by a Scottish physicist in the early nineteenth century, ‘kaleidoscope’ was derived from the Ancient Greek Ancient Greek καλός(kalos; beautiful) and εἶδος(eidos; form), hence “the observing tool of beautiful forms.” In Korea it is referred to as Man-hwa-kyeong (萬華鏡) as its colorful patterns are endlessly transmuted with no identical patterns showing up again. Shin has created his Kaleidoscope wherein all things in heaven and earth, from tiny particles to the whole galaxy, seem to appear and disappear in accordance with the eternal order and the shifting state of generation and demise. It is quite an ambitious project to capture both the structural order and the phenomenological state.
Structure and phenomena constituting the seemingly dual composition of Kaleidoscope are in fact founded upon a holistic principl eencompassing both, which is ascertained in the artist’s career of more than thirty years. The trajectory and traces of his art bear witness to an overarching consistency throughout differing formal experiments: an all-inclusive, holistic universe. Since the 1980s Shin had explored the primordial energy of life in informel abstract canvases of subdued palette and rough texture; by around 2000, he moved towards an all-over composition in much brighter tone on which he superimposed prepared patterns; but soon afterwards flowers, stones, or human figures began to appear as a generative force of the rhythm of life.
Education
B.F.A in painting dept. of fine art, Hong-ik Univ. Seoul Korea M.F.A in painting, graduate school of Hong-ik Univ. Seoul Korea
Winner of 2000/2001 Vermont Studio Center Residency Program Freeman Full Fellowship(USA)
1990~2014 Professor, Dept. of Fine Arts, Hannam University, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Flocons de fleurs, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2014 Topohaus, Seoul/ Leeahn Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
2012 Sejong Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Art Korea&Turkey, Ankara, Turke
2010/2011 Leeahn Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
2009 Iimlip Museum, Gongju, South Korea
2008 Art Gevene Palexpo, Geneve, Swiss
2007 Igong Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
2005 Nohwalang, Seoul, South Korea
2003 Lotte Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
2002 Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, États-Unis
1999 MANIF Seoul, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
1998 MAC2000, Paris, France
1995/1998 Yukyung Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1994 Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
1992 Duckwon Museum, Seoul, South Korea
1991 Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
1990 Dongsung Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
1989 Gallery Chosun, Seoul, South Korea
1987 The Korean culture & Art foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Group Exhibitions
2022 « I said nothing, did nothing », gallery Zeinxeno, Seoul, Korea
2020 « Covillective », Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2019 « Paint Goheung », Hongik Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2019 « GFA : Draw, Dream », Kuh Art Center, Daejeon, Korea
2019 « 100 artists, 100th anniversrsary of independence », Jungu Culture Center of Deajeon City, Daejeon, Korea
2018 « Nong », IS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 « Nong », IS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 « Artist Korean/Chinesse », Weihai Museum, China
2015 « Nong », IS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 « INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION FOR PEACE 2011 », la mer Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 « NEW life-human nature », Hangaram Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 « Inner Strength », Able Fine Art NY Gallery, USA
2010 « Finding Beauty of Love and Peace », National Theater of Abu Dhabi, UAE
2009 « Korean Art : Today », Sejong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2008 « Art Daejeon », Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2008 « OPENAUCTION », Openauction, Seoul, Korea
2006 « ART INTERCHANGE », Museum of Modern art Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2006 « ART FIRST(ARTEFIERA) », Bologne, Italy
2005 « INDIA-KOREA », Montage Arts Gallery, India
2004 « SURGING FROM FAR EAST 2004 », National Gallery BiH Sarajebo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2002 « INDIA-KOREA », Montage Arts Gallery, India
2001 « history of Namhan River people», Yangpyeong Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
2000 « Daejeon · LA : Homogeneity and Heterogeneity », Wooyun Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
2000 « Gwangju Biennale 2000 : Man+Space », Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
1999 « Korea university of Art professor », Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1998 « Korean Contemporary Artists », Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1998 « Daejeon Museum of Art », Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
1997 « 9th triennale-India », », National Gallery of Modern Art, India
1996 « Founging of Korean Catholic Artists Association », Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1994 « Professor Hannam », MBC culture center, Daejeon, Korea
1992 « 5th ASPECT », Moosim Museum, Cheongju, Korea
1992 « 34th ORIGIN », Kwanhoon Gallery/ Duckwon Museum, Seoul, Korea
1991 « Kyungbok », Gana Gana, Seoul, Korea
1990 « 10th Modern art korea and Japan », Fukuoka city Museum, Japan
1986 « Hongik RAIN », Hoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1986 « 1/12 EXHIBITION OF ONE TWELFTH GROUP », Gwanhun Museum, Seoul, Korea
1982 « Korea art festival », National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Fairs
2024 Art Busan, Galerie PJ, Busan, South Korea
2018 « A&C ARTFESTIVAL 2018 », Hangaram Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2016 « ACAF2016-The9th A&C ARTFESTIVAL », Hangaram Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 « KOREAN ART SHOW in New York », 608 west 28th NY, USA
1996 « Cheongdam Art Festival: Auction of Modern and Contempory art », Galleria Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
Bibliography
Public Collection
Seoul Museum of Art
Daejeon Museum of Art
Daejeon Arts Center
Daejeon KBS Broadcasting Station
Sungkok Art Museum
Hongik University Museum of Contemporary Art
Geomjae Art Museum
Deokwon Museum of Art
Address
10 rue des jardins, 57000 Metz, France
Hours
Wednesday-Saturday 11.00am-6.00pm
Contact us
+33 3 87 68 52 40