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born in cologne, germany in 1995, jeong is a contemporary abstract artist currently based in cologne and dusseldorf. after studying at the akademie der bildenden kunste wien from 2017 to 2021 with of erwin bohatsch and michaela eichwald, she has been at the at the kunstakademie dusseldorf since 2021. jeong's works at the intersection between the mass reproducibility of digital images and hand-rendered elements, create compositions that explore the nuance of image and temporality. the incidental and ephemeral is captured, prompting introspection and contemplation. She was a major figure in the digital age, but her work was rarely exhibited. A small retrospective of her work at the Kunstverein in Frankfurt in 2018 highlighted the artists contribution to the field of photo-based art. These new works are also a continuation of her work on paper, which in her hands, has always been an element that is not only an aspect of the medium but also a key to understanding her practice.The exhibition presented a large selection of her works on paper, including a number of pieces made between the 1980s and 2015. The works on paper are composed of a variety of media—from acrylics to oil paint on canvas—that are then applied to the paper in such a way that the image is rendered on the paper in an exact and consistent manner. The resulting prints are often thin and thin, almost transparent, and often appear to be made of pure pigment. This sensuous and delicate quality is also reflected in the color of the oil paint. In many of the works, the colors are rich, richly pigmented, and in some cases, the paint is applied in an even, cleanly brushed manner. The paintings are also composed of small, overlapping, and irregularly shaped rectangular pieces of paper that are painted in a mixture of red, yellow, and green. The irregularity and irregularity of the shapes and the irregularity of the surfaces are reminiscent of the irregular and irregular shapes of the image. The paintings also recall the random and random patterns of nature. In one, a large, irregular shape is seen in the background of a patch of pink-and-green paint. In the next, the shape is seen in a smaller patch of pink-and-green paint on the same pink-and-green paper. The irregularity and irregularity of these shapes and the irregularity of the surface are like the irregular and irregular forms of a storm cloud.

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born in cologne, germany in 1995, jeong is a contemporary abstract artist currently based in cologne and dusseldorf. after studying at the akademie der bildenden kunste wien from 2017 to 2021 with of erwin bohatsch and michaela eichwald, she has been at the at the kunstakademie dusseldorf since 2021. jeong's works at the intersection between the mass reproducibility of digital images and hand-rendered elements, create compositions that explore the nuance of image and temporality. the incidental and ephemeral is captured, prompting introspection and contemplation. The characters in her recent show, all of whom were made up of digital photographs, each are presented in a single frame. Their relationship to the image is as yet a matter of chance: the artist has chosen to leave the image in the digital realm, leaving it to chance that will eventually come to define the work.The works on display were made from images of a computer screen. The images, taken from a movie, were then digitally transferred to the films negative and printed on canvas. The results were then laminated in the same manner as the prints, with the digital images inserted into the medium of painting. The result was an image-based composition with a highly subjective character. The viewer, however, was not the one who is made to participate in this process. Rather, the artists intention is to make an image that will be preserved in the digital realm, and to do this, she has to use a technique that is already widely used to make digital images. In this way, the artist not only evokes a particular image but also creates an image that is always on the verge of vanishing. This is a very serious undertaking, one that is also a reflection of the fact that the art object is never finished, and, as such, always on the verge of decay. As an example of this, the work on display in the show, The Third Time, 2020, is a digital image of a picture of the artist herself taken from a digital image on a monitor. The image, which had been printed on a black-and-white print, had been digitally transferred to a canvas, and the resulting work is a composite of three separate images. The artist has chosen to make an image that will be preserved in the digital realm, leaving it to chance that will eventually come to define the work.

Result #3

born in cologne, germany in 1995, jeong is a contemporary abstract artist currently based in cologne and dusseldorf. after studying at the akademie der bildenden kunste wien from 2017 to 2021 with of erwin bohatsch and michaela eichwald, she has been at the at the kunstakademie dusseldorf since 2021. jeong's works at the intersection between the mass reproducibility of digital images and hand-rendered elements, create compositions that explore the nuance of image and temporality. the incidental and ephemeral is captured, prompting introspection and contemplation. The artist seeks to reexamine the nature of things, to place them in the context of the world.The exhibitions centerpiece, a group of large-scale photographs that played in the basement gallery, was titled: The World as a Picture, 2017. The photographs, mostly from the last three years, reveal the world in an array of vivid colors. Their backgrounds, usually dark, are often rendered in a dark, almost luminous, hues, in a sort of "distant pastel palette. The effect is particularly striking in the photo titled The World as a Picture, 2016, which shows a cityscape lit up by a single glowing, beaming light. The luminosity is also apparent in the photo titled The World as a Picture, 2015, which shows a gleaming white sky in the middle of a dark, deep-blue ocean. The photographs have a haunting quality, as if a ghostly presence were hovering over them. In the latter photograph, a cityscape is rendered in a kind of nebulous, abstracted way. The background is a gray, sky-blue background, the foreground a dark, almost opaque sky. In the foreground, a man stands with a rifle and a flashlight on a beach; in the background, a woman lies on a bed with a gun. The foreground, too, is a dark, almost nebulous background, the background a light, almost dark blue sky.The photographs were displayed in a rectangular room on the second floor, titled: The World as a Picture, 2018. The work includes a close-up of a woman lying on a bed, her head and face blurred by a small yellow glow. The image is framed by a white sheet and a wall with a printed image of a woman with a rifle. The woman, who appears to be asleep, is also covered by a black, vaguely ominous, cloudlike cloud.

Result #4

born in cologne, germany in 1995, jeong is a contemporary abstract artist currently based in cologne and dusseldorf. after studying at the akademie der bildenden kunste wien from 2017 to 2021 with of erwin bohatsch and michaela eichwald, she has been at the at the kunstakademie dusseldorf since 2021. jeong's works at the intersection between the mass reproducibility of digital images and hand-rendered elements, create compositions that explore the nuance of image and temporality. the incidental and ephemeral is captured, prompting introspection and contemplation. Jeong uses the device of the photo-printing press—the metal frame—to reproduce her own hand. She prints a series of vertical lines on the surface of her matrices, which she then folds up and affixes to the wall. The resulting compositions are finished with a matte-black finish. The process is reminiscent of the way a photograph is printed, and Jeong has said that she likes to see the prints as pictures, and as such, she often uses the hand to print them.In a recent installation at the Haus der Kunst in Düsseldorf, Jeong made a series of three-dimensional images of the same matrices. All were printed in black, and each work was titled with the artist's name in parentheses. The result was an exhibition that offered a glimpse into the processes of making. The black-and-white prints, all of which were produced using a custom print-on-demand printer, were printed on canvas, each one containing a single image. A black-and-white print, called Nachtbild (Nighttime), 2018, was a monochromatic field of green and red lines, some of which were completely obliterated, while the rest were visible. The color was derived from the color of the sky: a deep orange-blue sky with a red-orange sun. In the black-and-white print, called Rücken (Roots), 2018, Jeong applied a layer of black paint to the surface of a matrices original mat and then rolled it up into a rectangle. The result was a flat surface that felt like a vast forest of roots, in which a natural, organic, and organic-looking plant life could be seen. The first of these works was also titled Rücken, and was a single image, with a single line.

Result #5

born in cologne, germany in 1995, jeong is a contemporary abstract artist currently based in cologne and dusseldorf. after studying at the akademie der bildenden kunste wien from 2017 to 2021 with of erwin bohatsch and michaela eichwald, she has been at the at the kunstakademie dusseldorf since 2021. jeong's works at the intersection between the mass reproducibility of digital images and hand-rendered elements, create compositions that explore the nuance of image and temporality. the incidental and ephemeral is captured, prompting introspection and contemplation. It is this process of reflection and reflection that underlies the artists practice. Jeong rejects the impulse to rehash the past and seeks to transcend it, making it accessible to the viewer. The artist uses the conventions of painting to investigate the intricacies of the medium, as well as its potentials.The first of these works in the show, Untitled (Klaus), 2019, consists of a combination of blue and black ink-jet print on canvas. The painting evokes the German word for a machine that makes, and the blue and black ink-jet print were applied to the canvas. The painted surface is also a kind of surface, a space within a painting that is never completely closed off, and one that remains open to the world. The painting is composed of two planes that are filled with gray ink, which, like paint, is always on the move. The surface is both an extension of and a barrier to the viewer. In the middle of the painting, a text written in white on the canvas reads: The ink on the canvas, which is applied to the canvas, is a reflection on the artist, the viewer, and the world. The two-dimensional plane is the image; the painted surface is a reflection of the image. The two-dimensional and the painted plane are inseparable, and the two-dimensional is always in motion. In this way, Jeong shows us that painting can be both a representation and an object that has an interior.In another work, Untitled (Zhang), 2019, Jeong creates a kind of filmic object from the same materials as those used to make a painting: paper, ink, and paint. The paper is applied to a painted surface, creating a kind of surface-effect painting. The ink is applied to the paper, forming a kind of film that makes the paper seem to move. The paper is also a kind of surface, a space within a painting that is never completely closed off.