Noh Sang-ho ‘Holly’ and Hwang Soo-yeon ‘Magma’
Arario Gallery Seoul until April
Enlarge photo Noh Sang-ho’s ‘Holly’. Arario Gallery Artificial intelligence (AI) meets religious painting. Triptych paintings are a common form of religious painting. The huge triptych hung side by side contains a painting redrawn with a brush from an image created with the generative AI ‘Midjourny’. There’s something strange about a smooth picture that looks like it was drawn with an airbrush and printed if you look closely. The main characters are an angel who defeats a doll-shaped villain, a snowman who rises like a cloud, and a three-headed skeleton riding a motorcycle. By actively embracing AI, a tool that provides ambivalent emotions of wonder and fear, a surprisingly unfamiliar picture was born.
Images in the digital world are becoming a new muse for artists. ‘Holly’ by Noh Sang-ho (38) and ‘Magma’ by Hwang Soo-yeon (43), which opened side by side at Arario Gallery Seoul and continues until April 20, present unique works that reinterpret images in AI and short-form videos that the MZ generation is passionate about. .
Artist Noh displayed a variety of works, including about 40 paintings, videos, and installations. Due to the imperfection of technology, he brought into his paintings AI images that create ‘hallucinations’ that are different from reality, such as a deer with two heads, a person with six fingers, and a flaming snowman. It is also fun to look for the paintings displayed in the exhibition and the ‘Monthly Noh Sang-ho’, which contains a month’s worth of drawings drawn every day under the name ‘The Great Chapbook’. Artist Noh explained, “When I encountered an image that seemed to exist in reality but did not exist, I felt a sacred emotion even in the AI image, so I worked to bring this back into painting.”
Artist Hwang Soo-yeon returned with 13 new works that are completely different from the paper sculptures shown at last year’s exhibition. As she worked, the artist seemed to be addicted to short-form videos of less than a minute. She was able to capture three-dimensional pieces in the video that was being consumed. ‘Bad Racket “…”‘ displayed a defective badminton product created by the artist himself after watching a short-form video about the process of making a badminton racket. Artist Hwang, who chose ‘Magma’, which symbolizes heat and energy in an invisible place, as the title of the exhibition, explained, “I wanted to give a sculptural, finite body to the images that are constantly consumed.”
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2024-03-18 15:27:12
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