CEO Song Jeung-chil of Galerie Oh & Song Paris
CEO Song Jeung-chil of Galerie Oh & Song Paris presents the works of eight artists. They are Guy Demun, Claude Gaveau, Herve Loilier, Jacques Leonard, Michele Taupin, Bernard Fideler and Arcade Latour
Korean artist Kang Chan-mo, who is famous for painting the spirit of the Mountain Himalaya, is also participating.
The 2021 PLAS 2021 Sculpture Art Exhibition will be held from May 16 to 19, 2021 at the exhibition hall of COEX Trade Exhibition Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
CEO Song Jeung-chil runs a gallery in Paris, France, and holds touring exhibitions in Korea for about 3 to 4 months of the year.
CEO Song, to be sure, is a true gallery proprietor because of his pictorial approach and his original sense of work.
In particular, CEO Song worked as a national PR officer at the Korean Embassy in France during his career, and worked as a civil official at the Korean Cultural Center in France.
He also worked as a national PR officer at the Korean Embassy in Indonesia, enhancing his knowledge and insight into art.
The experience gained in about 40 years of experience and work life since he was interested in the art world explains the course of growth and development attained by CEO Song.
In particular, he worked at the Ministry of Culture and Public Information of Korea, where he gained a broad spectrum and sense of art that is considered truly remarkable.
In addition to the works exhibited in this exhibition, the artists are introduced as follows.
About the artists
Kang Chan-mo's work introduction:
Kang Chan-mo (born in 1949) is an artist who has fiercely embodied the way of life on paper, discovering, adapting, and living through constant research and exploration.
After graduating from the Department of Painting, Chung-Ang University College of Arts, he studied in depth the paintings of traditional Korean paintings and became an expert in painting.
The following is an excerpt from a review by the renowned French critic Patrice de la Perriere, published in the classic French art journal Univers-des-arts.
Like many Korean artists, he had been fascinated by Western paintings for a while. However, the imitation of Western painting was not the world of art he pursued.
He continued his relentless exploration and hard work, and after 40 years of meditation practice for this, he received a revelation while traveling in the Himalayas, changing his perception of art.
The artist asked deeply about the role (duty) of art and the question he was trying to convey there. On canvas, it was no longer enough for him to blindly reproduce nature like a slave.
The artist could not shake off its magical power and its inherent beauty.
Artist Kang Chan-mo
This discovery in the Himalayas led the artist to a rediscovery of perception and the opening of a third vision.
Between the visual dream and the reality of nature, the perception of the universe and the colors associated with it and symbolized lead the viewers of his work to meditation.
Works all presented under the title of “meditation” are the answer to it.
There, beyond the images we can see, there's everything we don't see and everything we need to figure out.
In the artist's work, the colored “empty” he knows very well how to find and organize makes us think of the “vacuum” theory.
Here, the space left blank by the artist is not insufficient, but rather filled, and this ensemble is a set composed of “empty and fullness”, invigorating the entire work and instilling infinite vitality.
As such, the sky is united with the mountain in the mysterious motion of eternity. In Kang Chan-mo's work, there is an endless purity that seduces us.
So the artist lets us enter the universe of mountains expressed in metaphysical reflection.
The artist composes his work in a way of energy that transcends inner passion and mere human will.
We must not forget that since ancient times, mountains have been places of divinity. That is why the mountains of Kang Chan-mo also imply the unity of the universe, which he called <All Great Things> in the Middle Ages.
His pictorial approach, without any narrative (ideology), is nourished solely by his own intuition and apparent sensitivity.
And even if people do not become united in his works, it is certain that only the human spirit, which remains unchanged forever for the artist, is always a part of accepting nature and is the eternity he has.
Introduction of Herve Loilier's work:
Born in Paris in 1948, the artist, after graduating from Polytechnic, one of France's four renowned grandes écoles, abandoned his career as a promising engineer and chose the path as a painter, showing excellent aptitude in painting, especially dessin, from an early age.
Even now, he is regarded as one of the most outstanding dessin painters in Paris. After entering the path of a painter, he traveled to many countries around the world for many years, observing the changes in nature and the beautiful, harmony of light and color, people's life, and various groups of people in depth and putting them in his own way. He harmonizes and recreates it on the canvas.
The works of the artist make us feel the boundary line between poetry and printing, or beautiful heavenly music.
The world of his work embodies the harmony of dreamy forms created by the ensemble, such as color and light, harmony between nature and objects, and mysterious composition of characters, and evokes a feeling of warmth and emotion from the deep depths of people.
His works in a dreamlike form, which can be called a structural symbol, have been invited from around the world, including one hundred exhibitions all over France and as a guest painter at 50 Salons. He was invited from Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, China, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, India and Korea and held numerous invited exhibitions.
In particular, in Japan, more than 10 invitational exhibitions were held in various cities and received a lot of good response.
For these contributions, he received several medals and numerous commendations such as the “Palm Academy Medal” and “Art Studies Literary Knight Medal” of the French government, and served as president of various art organizations such as “Salon de Violet”, and professor of École Polytechnique.
Introduction of Bernard Fideler's work:
Bernard Fideler, 75 years old this year, majored in mechanical engineering during his growing up years, and during his lifetime he has lived two lives: a mechanical engineering engineer and an artist.
From the age of 18, he was interested in everything about art, regularly reading art magazines, and taking art and sculpture lectures at the Academy Julian.
That was the decisive encounter that the artist lived in his two lives. He studies art in earnest from Professor Pierre Jerome, who believes that art is a clergy and religion, and an outstanding art professor at the renowned Grandes Écoles in Polytechnique and also a “Prix de Rome” winner.
After some time he became an engineer at the National Arts Vocational Academy, while continuing his art studies, became an apprentice to Professor Pierre Jerome, and he studied at the academy Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
Bernard Fideler
His work Les Arlequines (leathered) is an old dream story with a painter's dreams and nagging. It is a subject like a transformation that reappears and reincarnates as needed on the canvas, "not very identical nor completely different."
The impression of Arleguines began when the artist was young. One day while working on his work at the Academy Grande Chaumiere, a woman poses in a variety of colorful Arleguines outfits.
It was an aesthetic shock to the artist, and he knew it was the subject of a picture that could be transferred like a sweet obsession.
After that, seeing the "Beauty and the Beast" ballet choreographed by legendary ballerinos John Neumeier and Noella Pontois, he experienced a moment of tremendous ecstasy and admiration. The grace and beauty of a female body has been the subject of painting throughout the painter's life.
After that, after seeing the ballet Arlequinade choreographed by Roland Petit, it became the subject of the artist's paintings.
The artist likes to dismantle and reconstruct Arlequin's body in a cubist way. The neck and arms are often ridiculously large, and the sharp shoulders and narrow waists are in stark contrast to the beautiful curves of the chest and thighs.
The face that can implicitly recognize the influence of Modigliani's Negro art is needless to say.
Introduction of Arcade Latour’s work:
Born in Quebec, Canada in 1950, Arcade Latour discovered the technique of using printing inks as paints from the age of 12, and at the age of 15 he showed a natural ability by holding his first solo exhibition.
He studied art history, geographic dessin, technical dessin, and architectural dessin in turn, and since then, he has been working for more than 50 years, serving as a geographic dessinator, a graphist, editor of an art magazine, president of an advertising company, and director of photography studio.
In 1983-1984, when he was 33 years old, he was commissioned by the Pontifical Office and the Catholic Bishops of Canada to make a concept vehicle for Pope Paul II to design the papal vehicle, and then also commissioned the design of two papal vehicles to complete it. One of them is on permanent display at the Ottawa Museum of Science and Technology.
In 2016, he was elected at the International Wine Bottle Label Competition (Le Grand cru) held by the French Wine Association, and in recognition of his high workability, he held an invitational exhibition in several cities in France, including Paris and Bordeaux. He also held invited exhibitions in numerous places such as New York, Orland, Dallas, Miami, Les Hampton, Hawaii, Montreal in Canada, Musee des vins, Madrid in Spain, and Saint Petersburg in Russia, so the price of his works is also rising a lot.
(Artist Lee U-Hwan is the only Korean artist whose work was used on the label of a French wine bottle)
The artist shows a work that comes to life in a potential and possible time, the original aspect created by means of traditional printing ink.
Fascinated by the intensity of the hues of printing ink and the density of the texture, Latour applied the possibilities he discovered from a very young age to himself.
As a firm dessinator, he creates a universe of colors and various forms that have gained surface bumps on the canvas, revealing both a large amount of protrusion and an attractive delicacy, along with a complete ensemble that is completely and fascinatingly perceived.
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Galerie OH & SONG-Paris
Director (Paris): Song Samuel Sanghuon
(Korea): Song Jeung-chill
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