Herald Economy | What Music Could This Young Woman Be Listening To?
In its "Art Holic" column, Herald Economy introduced Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung's work "Naesoong Tteolrim (Trembling Coyness)." Through this piece — a woman in purple hanbok listening to music on headphones, with a hippopotamus, zebra, and elephant piled together atop her head — the column explained Kim's style of crossing between the classical and the contemporary, dream and reality. It noted that the outwardly elegant yet inwardly snobbish figures in her paintings prompt viewers to reflect on themselves.
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Art Holic
What Music Could This Young Woman Be Listening To?
A woman elegantly dressed in a purple hanbok listens to music through headphones. What music could she be listening to, to be so lost in a trance? Piled atop her head are a hippopotamus, a zebra, and an elephant.
This painting, showing an out-of-nowhere incongruity, is a work by rising painter Kim Hyun Jung (25). A graduate of Seoul National University's Department of Oriental Painting, Kim freely mixes the classical and the contemporary, dream and reality.
Believing that a painting allows the imagination to soar without limit, her goal is to create a "21st-century genre painting" that anyone can relate to.
The figures in her paintings — outwardly elegant, yet pure snobs underneath — prompt viewers to ask themselves, "Isn't that just me?"
Senior Reporter Lee Young-ran/yrlee@heraldcorp.com
[Photo caption] Kim Hyun Jung's "Naesoong Tteolrim (Trembling Coyness)." Color on hanji. [Photo courtesy of Gallery IS]