SANGYUEL YOON Korean, b. 1970

Yoon Sang Yuel (b.1970) is a Seoul-based artist who graduated with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from Kyungwon University and was selected for Expressive Activities at Seoul Foundation for Art Culture (2009) and was an Archive registered artist at SOMA Drawing Center (2008). Yoon had his residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2007), along with Korea-Vietnam Contemporary Art Exhibition inHanoi, Vietnam(2019); Grand Opening of Paris, Opera Gallery in Paris, France (2014); Four Winds at Opera Gallery in Monaco (2014); AAF Milano 2014, Superstudio Piu Milano in Italy (2012). Yoon’s works are now held by Hana Bank (Korea), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Korea) and other institutions.

The exploration of the thickness of lines, digital printing, and minimalism is the study of “fear,” an illusion that presents itself as reality. The series comprises vertical or horizontal lines, straight lines meticulously drawn manually or digitally. Mostly, working with linear paintings, the visualisation of memory, and personally written records is a striving for perfectionism that may only remain an illusion. 

The series, Silence, so-called “linear painting,” illuminates a dark atmosphere, thus creating an illusion. With the utilisation of a mechanical pencil, Yoon draws lines with 0.3mm intervals in between lines and digitalizes the work by applying inkjet. In addition to the layers of thin film sheets he draws linear lines repetitively – the lines that carry emotional thoughts - create a sense of illusion.