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FACE to FACE

Name: FACE to FACE
Start: 2026-07-11
End: 2026-08-08
Location: Kidari Gallery

Free · Dong-gu Kidari Gallery

Dates: Jul 11 ~ Aug 8
Venue: Kidari Gallery
Area: Daegu Dong-gu
Price: Free
Enquiries: 070-7566-5995

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About this event

Artists Choi Myeong-jin and Lim Il-min's two-person exhibition 'FACE to FACE' takes its title from phrases meaning 'to meet in person,' 'to face each other,' and 'to confront.' It is planned so that the two artists' works, which transform human figures, first face each other in the exhibition hall, and visitors can also encounter the figures in the artworks, directly feel the inner messages delivered by the artists, and further take time to heal the wounds in their own hearts. This exhibition is a two-person show featuring Choi Myeong-jin and Lim Il-min, both representative exclusive artists of Kidari Gallery. They share the commonality of having been selected as top artists in the 5th and 7th 'Kidori-jeon' (Kidari Gallery Emerging Artist Open Call Ddok.Ddok.Ddok), an open call held by Kidari Gallery to discover emerging artists. Since then, they have belonged as exclusive artists of Kidari Gallery and are emerging artists in their 20s receiving great attention from art lovers by participating in active exhibition activities and major domestic and international art fairs such as KIAF, Hwarang Art Festival, Art Busan, and Affordable Art Fair Singapore. Artist Choi Myeong-jin has consistently pursued painting work centered on the theme of comfort and healing within relationships. Through freely transformed human forms, she captures the emotions of wounded humans on canvas using achromatic and monochromatic-oriented colors. The bold straight lines and colors in the works sometimes approach coldly and roughly, but the warm meanings and emotions implied within them convey deep comfort and healing power to visitors. Artist Choi Myeong-jin has recently been expanding her art world beyond the simple embrace of her representative series 'best hugger' to a series receiving healing in nature. She says that while healing the wounded hearts of modern people is a warm embrace of family, lovers, and friends, the comfort received within the bosom of giant nature also has great healing power. Instead of using traditional brushes, the artist uses her hands as tools, creating the surfaces of figures by dabbing and spreading acrylic paint onto the canvas. This unique working method not only maximizes visual texture, but also more strongly conveys the emotional temperature directly transmitted from the fingertips. Artist Lim Il-min presents works transferring the wounds of childhood and unexpressed emotions deeply rooted in his inner self onto the canvas. He portrays figures—incomplete personalities gathered with negative or anxious emotions and deficiencies—through the artist's unique rough drawing, emotional facial expressions, and harmonious subtle colors. Through his work, the artist tells us that even if humans live lives existing as incomplete personalities for various reasons, the existence of 'I' itself makes everyone worthy of love, and that works containing his own story can connect with others' lives, suppressed inner emotions can meet others to form a consensus, and healing can occur within that communion. In particular, many viewers review his painting style as resembling 'Egon Schiele', but the artist shows originality through his own expressive techniques via experimental work infusing his emotions into figures based on oriental materials. [English artist bios follow in source...]

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