AN Gyungsu

AN Gyungsu (b.1975) has been focusing on suburban sceneries for over a decade. He seeks out and experiences scenes that either fail to become landscapes or strive to be. These temporary and variable scenes are interpreted as "floating landscapes." AN captures piles and objects pushed to the margins from the center of these scenes in his works. He brings the canvas to the actual locations, overlaying it onto the real landscape to create photographic records. Having lived in various places, he pays attention to site-specific landscapes and phenomena, defining the paintings themselves as a new layer and attempting to connect them with the real place. The artist translates the embodied senses he experiences while following the sediments of landscapes into the language of painting. These unique scenes, "too insignificant to sweep up but too bothersome to ignore," move and disappear like floating dust, repeatedly revealing themselves. AN carefully observes and slowly represents the sensations beyond each object and scene through painting. According to him, "All the landscapes around us are those where such sediments slowly accumulate."

AN Gyungsu was born in Busan, Korea in 1975. He has held solo exhibitions at Pibi Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2021; 2019), Sahng-up Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2018), Gallery Chosun (Seoul, Korea, 2016), Gallery Hyundai Window Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2014) and more. He has participated in group exhibitions at ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, Korea, 2023; 2017; 2012; 2011), Arko Art Center (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea, 2020), SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea, 2019), Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul) (Seoul, Korea, 2017), Gyeongnam Art Museum (Changwon, Korea, 2017), Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2015), MMCA Residency Goyang (Goyang, Korea, 2010) and more. He was the artist-in-residence at the MMCA Residency Goyang in 2009, Gyeonggi Creation Center in 2016, and the SeMA Nanji Residency in 2019. His works are collected by various institutions such as National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Art and more.