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JOO MYUNG DUCK PHOTOGRAPHY I - CITYSCAPE |
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2008/11/26 ~ 2009/01/18 |
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10:00am~6:00pm |
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JOO MYUNG DUCK |
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75works(Photography) |
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Park Joo Seok |
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Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Woori Bank, Lotte Insurance co.,ltd, Kyobo Life Insurance Co., e-편한세상 |
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Hewlett-Packard(HP), Young Chang Piano |
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Joo Myung Duck (1940~), one of the leading Korean photographers, has been engaged with photographic works for more than 45 years. As shown in and , he has focused on the crucial social issues and disappearing cultural heritages. He has sought to interpret nature with a critical gaze. This exhibition, is meant to bring together the series of cityscapes from 1998 to 2008, through which Joo’s perspective and the aesthetics on the city will be felt.
Joo’s cityscape reflects a contemporary tendency that pits the cityscape as the main subject matters of photography. His scrutiny of the city represents his conviction that Seoul is the critical locus of the everyday life. His work is very divergent from the generally represented cityscapes by others. In general, most of the cityscapes portray the urban spectacles of skyscrapers, urban phenomenon and inhabitants’ lives in terms of critical perspectives on civilization. Yet, to Joo Myung Duck, Seoul represents more, in that it has been the base of his existence for over half a century and the subject of his oeuvres. His familiarity with the city leads to his own inimitable insights into the city spaces. His photographs represent the traces of the perceptual gap about the city between as the familiar living site and as the site rife with the collapse of tradition.
Joo’s cityscapes are full of icons produced by mass media, which are paradoxically vacant and unstable. The city looks like a simulacrum packed with buildings and neon signs, rather than the reality that lies beneath their veneer. Sometimes his cityscapes startle even the viewers who are accustomed to Seoul. It results from Joo’s perspective that the city is overspread with constructed images of mass media. We, as urbanites, cannot but consent to Joo’s outlook on the city.
Joo’s cityscapes are sometimes seen as experimental and informal. As for Joo’s cityscapes, one critic claims that his works expose the history of the city as well as the atmospheric flow from the sky, building and trees. To confirm this argument, Joo Myung Duck’s cityscapes express the reminiscence in the city and the methodology in interpreting urban spaces. Paradoxically, his city built on unreal images shows the affection toward the city in which his life has been deeply rooted in. |
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