Jun Won Kun

작가는 예술이 주는 위안과 치유의 힘을 믿으며 이를 미학적 경험으로 안겨준다 Jun's art seems to distill life into paintings that resonate with color. To do so, he seeks undisclosed colors on the canvas. His work, known as color-field or monochrome abstract paintings, offers a unique aura that stems from his distinct technique in which multiple layers of hues are built and wiped out repeatedly. Through this multilayering method, the picture plane exhibits thick materiality, yet spatial depth lies beneath its translucent surface where the color-images emerge ambiguously buoyant in the void. The remaining colors and their boundaries from controlled pigment application and removal subtly permeate one another, creating a blurred effect. Such occurrences between the picture plane and the eye create a sense that distant and imminent spacetime can exist concurrently. His works often elicit an emotional response in the viewer, embracing warmth amid moderation, differentiating them from cold and formulaic minimalists. He believes in the comforting and healing power of art and offers it as an aesthetic experience. Hence, his abstract work contains both Eastern and Western characteristics with human traces and sensibilities accompanied by an enduring performance of repetition and accumulation while utilizing formal rationality with dots, lines, and planes, the most fundamental plastic elements, as constituents. Jun studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and pursued a master's degree under Helmut Federle in 2001. He is still based in Düsseldorf and exhibits in Europe and worldwide, well received by museums and private collectors at home and abroad, including Imi Knoebel, a renowned abstract painter who has also collected his work. Jun’s work unfolds into monochrome paintings and geometric forms such as grids, lines, squares, and circles while orchestrating various colors on the picture plane. He seeks confluence with the inner world through color, in which his exhaustive search for harmony and structure among new colors embodies such desire. It inspires curiosity about how his artistic practice appeals to our inherent aesthetic sense and stimulates the mind toward imagination.