Staccato Black

Contemporary artists constantly raise quesions and concerns about the role and meaning of painting or art in general in the society. Having been introduced different attempts to generate discourses on visual culture and produce diverse forms of exhibitions, Ilmin Museum of Art holds three solo

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exhibitions by three Korean artists: Kyunghwan Kwon's "The Rule Before Drying," Jangbok Ryu's "Transparent but Dense," and Shiu Jin's "Staccato Black."

The three artists have been expressing a wide range of visual languages based on figurative drawings, drawings or paintings that document the artist's ideas and thoughts, texts, and images. In the current three solo exhibitions, each artist materializes their will to communicate the value of art by introducing their experience and creating grounds for sharing through the expanded realm of painting, sculpture, video, and intallation

"Staccato Black" is Shiu Kin's first solo exhibiition in five years. Having been practicing the permeation or invention into the socio-political condition of the city as a member of Okin Collective, Jin now presents an artistic practice that is more on the individual level. Jin's work is often derived from texts, more specifically, his own fragmented personnel memos. In his way of following through associated images with his previous text...'

(Abstract from Preface)

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