English / Korean
Memories of Future
Exhibition Catalog for Leeum, Seoul, Korea, August 2010
Representational art is thriving. In my opinion (and it is just that: an opinion), representational art is far more "viewer-friendly" to the vast majority of people than is abstract or conceptual art. We (absolutely including myself) have a higher degree of comfort with art when something recognizable catches the eye and registers. Perhaps this has never happened to you, but I have, personally, been made to feel stupid at an opening or exhibition, by asking "ignorant" questions or not "getting" the point in an abstract piece. (Presumably, I was the only person in the gallery who was not able to read the artist's mind.)