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60 x 40 cm, Radierung, 2000

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The Age of Melancholy

A. Dürer’s approach in bringing melancholy in “Melancholia (1514)” as an artistic projection of feelings has made us encounter a large number of melancholic portrait images from an angel deeply in thought, to geniuses, artists, and to philosophers. Do we remember the last time we were in a melancholy mood? Feeling of helplessness, lack of energy, fatigue, sadness and vainness compose a mood of melancholy. Back then in the times of Dürer melancholy was only permitted to those with particular jobs, but now it has its general influence on everyone in today’s world.

Jin-A Ryou’s portraits display people with feeling of melancholy in a very unique way. With a minimum margin, people are expressionless, yet surprisingly enough, the medium is revealing their emotions. Watercolors run down the papers seeming it was not done on purpose, and smudged colors let us read their inner feelings of melancholy, great sadness, and sympathy. It is supposable that these meaning-related media has helped Jin-A Ryou to expose without any trick people’s bare faces and straightforwardly open inner sides. And on the other hand, it proves that she practices experimental traditions of contemporary art. Generally speaking, a medium to be the main idea is the essential element of formality and medium being palyed up for the first time in the period of modernism.

Those run-down colors resemble real life in a way that it is a mixture of meaningful behaviors and uncontrollable phenomenons. With this unique style of her works she captures images of today’s ordinary people around us. In 2003 she completed <50 portraits of helplessness> in which she focused on catching each person’s moment of perceiving one’s own world in various viewpoints. Then after coming back to Korea in 2010, her latest artworks obtain much darker aura of melancholy of a big city of Seoul to those people met outside on streets. Although the artworks shout a feeling of melancholy, Jin-A Ryou’s warm gaze turn them looking beautifully sophisticated for she even hugged the unmentioned scars of sorrow in the people. She has been explaining that her motive of portrait works come simply from interest towards humanity. Greatest happiness and deepest sorrow both emerge from human beings and that is the message in her portraits.

Now it is time for us to confront these portraits as well as our own reflections on the canvas. Viewers and people in artworks overlap in a way that they both are gazing in a distance. It is as if her created imagery in <Gallerygoer (2008)> lead us to our own inner sides through a mirror of art which ultimately accomplish the role of art.

Prof. Yoo, Hun Joo
Yonsei University Dept. of German Language & Literature, Seoul

Jin-A Ryou

1971 born in Seoul, Korea South

Lives and works in Seoul (and Berlin), Korea South

Education

1992 – 1995
Study of Painting at the Duksung women's University, Seoul, South Korea /BFA
1998 – 2002
Study of Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts / Graduate Examination of fine arts
1999 – 2003
Study of Strategic Communication and Planning at the Berlin University of the Arts / Intermediate diploma
2002 – 2003
Meisterschüler at the Berlin University of the Arts / Master of fine arts

Solo Exhibitions

2003 Berlin, FLOWING down helplessness , Gallery “südost”
2004 Berlin, SPACE BETWEEN, Gallery “F 92”
2004 Seoul, WATER IS LIFE, “Gallery Godo”
2010 Seoul, Portraits , “Gallery Godo”

Group Exhibitions

2001 Berlin, duoexhibition, GelbeSeiten
2002 Berlin, EXHIBITION OF GRADUATE, he Berlin University of the Arts
2002 Busan (south korea), INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ART FESTIVAL
2003 Berlin, EXHIBITION OF MEISTERSCHUELER, the Berlin University of the Arts
2003 Berlin, (NO) COMIC, Gallery “Berliner Kunstprojekt”
2003 Berlin, REARVIEW MIRROR, “Gallery am Prater”
2003 Berlin, DRUCK - art, “Haus am Kleistpark”
2005 Berlin, SILKSCREEN/SERIGRAPHY 2, the Berlin University of the Arts
2005 Seoul, 23th Seoul Art Fair, Hangaram Art Museum
2006 Cologne, ART FAIR 2006 – International Fair for Twenty-first Century, “EXPO XXI”
2006 Berlin, RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH REFLEXION, “Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung
im Presse- und Besucherzentrum”
2006 Berlin, 5th Birthday of F92, Gallery “F 92”
2007 Beijing, China, 4th China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE) 2007, the Exhibition Hall of
the China World Trade Center (CWTC)
2007 Berlin, Asien in Berlin, Gallery “F 92”
2007 Cologne, ART FAIR 21 – International Fair for Twenty-first Century, “EXPO XXI”
2008 Karlsruhe, Art Karlsruhe – Internationale Messe fuer Klassische Moderne und Gegenwartskunst,
KMK – Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH
2009 Seoul, 4th Seoul Open Art Fair 2009, COEX Seoul
2009 Taipei, YOUNG ART taipei 2009, Sunworld Dynasty Hotel Taipei
2010 Busan, 28th Korea Galleries Art Fair, BUSAN-BEXCO
2010 Seoul, Korea International Art Fair(KIAF2010), COEX in Seoul
2010 Incheon, The 6th International Incheon Art Fair (2010 IIAF), Incheon Culture & Arts Center
2010 Seoul, 10 th Ausstellung der Vereinigung Koreanischer und Deutscher Bildender Künstler, “Gallery Godo”
2011 Cologne, ART.FAIR – International Fair for Twenty-first Century Art, Staatenhaus am Rheinpark
2012 Seoul, Family Arts Festival, “Gallery Godo”
2012 Seoul, The 11th Korea International Art Fair (KIAF2012), COEX in Seoul
2012 Seoul, ART ASIA 2012, COEX in Seoul

Projects

Work as Designer

2002 Quintus-Design, Berlin
2002 Damm und Lindlar Brand Development and Corporate Design, Berlin
2003-2009 Media Consulta Deutschland GmbH, Berlin
since 2010 Feelancer

Jin-A Ryou

2004-ho 601-dong, Sandeulmaeul APT, Ilsan2-dong, Ilsanseo-gu,
411-776 GOYANG GYEONGGI-DO
S.KOREA

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