Gyung-Su An

Born: 1975

Biography:

AN Gyungsu (b.1975) has been focusing on suburban sceneries for over a decade. He seeks out and experiences scenes that either fail to become landscapes or strive to be. These temporary and variable scenes are interpreted as 'floating landscapes.' AN captures piles and objects pushed to the margins from the center of these scenes in his works. He brings the canvas to the actual locations, overlaying it onto the real landscape to create photographic records. Having lived in various places, he pays attention to site-specific landscapes and phenomena, defining the paintings themselves as a new layer and attempting to connect them with the real place. The artist translates the embodied senses he experiences while following the sediments of landscapes into the language of painting. These unique scenes, 'too insignificant to sweep up but too bothersome to ignore,' move and disappear like floating dust, repeatedly revealing themselves. AN carefully observes and slowly represents the sensations beyond each object and scene through painting. According to him, 'All the landscapes around us are those where such sediments slowly accumulate.'