a Black Dance in the Air
ABOUT
Ewon Moon
I reflect and homogenize human life in nature, especially annual plants. I observe objects, think about them, write poems, and also put them in a video, to metaphorize their final gestures into a black dance in holographic glint of mother-of-pearl work.
On the winter day of 2010, I was fascinated by the silhouette of withering annual plants in the air. Since then, I have been looking for these plants every winter. When I looked at the plants against the sun light in the air, their gestures seemed to exert their highest constituent beauty, even though they were only weeds in the fields, depicting desolate death past the green renaissance.
They may have encountered warm, vibrant springs, rich greens in summer, and autumn that resembles sunset glows. Then they would have met a winter saying goodbye to the migratory birds.
The final appearance of their lives, as if they were the lightest body ever since coming out into the world, seeming to be ready to blow all the moisture into the air with their black dance and to return to the providence of nature, leaving no regrets at all. It comes not so different from our human life. So, as if humans lived for decades, they seem to concentrate human life within a year. Is that so? Their dinamic movements by cold wind on the field seem to be their last history, last struggle, and pieces left by the wind, scattered in the air before returning to the ground.
The mother-of-pearl, the art material borrowed to express these gestures, became the ever-changing color of the sky, making it a great medium to describe their gestures as margins rather than margins. This unique mother-of-pearl color resembles a sky color that changes over time with a glow that is difficult to define. On the other hand, in contrast to the splendid margins, these withering plants are represented in black. This black signifies both the cycle of death and the nature's providence to the next generation, which suggests a new beginning, just as the forest is burned down, and nature nourishes it, creating new possibilities only after its extinction.
Solo Exhibition
2019 Pieces of the Wind <Artbit Gallery, Seoul, Korea>
2018 a black Dance in the Air, Call for artist_Sarangbang Special Installation <Korean Cultural Centre, New York, USA>
2018 a Black Dance in the Air_a Gesture Drawn in the Air <Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea>
2009 What’s your plan B? <Gallery Is, Seoul, Korea>
2006 Islands <Cott Gallery, Seoul, Korea>
2004 Hidden Addiction <Lotte Gallery, Anyang>, <Gallery Fish, Seoul, Korea>
2003 Echo and close_Stream of the East <Kwan-hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea>
Main Group Exhibition & Project
2019 To Find your own treasure_SECRET STORAGE <National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea>
2019 Traditional patterns, meet_Art Support Specialized Project of Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture & Amore Pacific <Sulwhagram, Korea>
2019 Artprize Gangnam Roadshow <Royal Lounge, Seoul, Korea>
2019 Cheongju International Craft Competition <Cheongju Culture & Art Factory, Cheongju, Korea>
2019 Seoripul Art for Art <Kepco Art Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea>
2019 Walk of Art_ARTBOX. Project Zürich 1.0 <SBB Event Hall, Zürich, Swiss>
2019 Inter Style Dinning Project Munhwainga <Querencia House, Seoul, Korea>
2019 花信風_A wind that tells you that the flower is about to bloom- call for artists <Gallery Pakyoung, Paju, Korea>
2018 Sarangbang Special Installation-call for artists <Korean Cultural Centre, New York, the United States >
2018 Osan Museum of Art Collection <Osan Museum of Art, Osan, Korea>
2016 Collaborative Project We, a शब्द/ شبد (śabd) <Korean Cultural Center, New Delhi, India>
2016 Interstices <Incheon Art Platform G1 Gallery, Korea>
2015 Intercultural U <Sty-Wat-Tan Hall, Vancouver, Canada>
2015 Choosen Homeland: Searching for Women’s Identity & Unity <Korean Cultural Centre, Washington D.C., the United States >
2013 KOWIN Spain <Korean Cultural Centre, Madrid, Spain>
2010 Korean Fantasy Painting-The Sensual Reinterpretation of Korean Paintings <Seoul museum of Art, Korea>
2010 Going to <Kunst - Direkt gallery, Bayern, Germany>
2010 I don’t know you <In-cheon Culture & Arts Center, Korea>
2007 Hello Chelsea! 2007 <35 Fine Art Gallery, New York>
2007 ARWI International Art Fair <Puerto Rico Convention Center, Puerto Rico>
2007 Human-Sea-Wind <In-cheon Culture & Arts Center, Korea>
2006 Young Artists of Whole country <Gangneung art Gallery-invitation, Korea>
2005 Shape-Spirit from Today’s Portraits <Woo-jin Gallery-invitaion, Jeon-ju, Korea>
2005 The New of the East <Gong-pyung Art Center-invitation, Seoul, Korea>
2004 Book Project ‘Books similar to men, Men similar to Books <Kum-ho Gallery-invitation, Seoul, Korea>
Main Award
2019 Art Support Specialized Project of Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture & Amore Pacific
2018 KCCNY(Korean Cultural Center New York)-Call for Artist
2018 Gallery ParkYoung-Call for Artist
2008 Song-eun Fine Art Grand
2006 Song-eun Fine Art Grand
2002 Joong-ang Fine Art Grand
2002 UN World Peace Art Grand
Residency Program
2016 Cao Bang Artist Residency Program <Cao Bang, Vietnam>
2015 Ha Long Artist Residency Program <Ha Long, Vietnam>
2013 Can Serrat Residency Program <Barcelona, Spain>
Article
2017 Collaborative Art Activity for Mutual Understanding between Groups with Different Cultural and Ideological Backgrounds, Pedagogical Globalization: Traditions, Contemporary Art, and Popular Culture of Korea, International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) Publication
2016 A/R/Tographical Literati Painting (2016, Moon. Ewon), IJAE (International Journal of Arts Education)
Possession of work
Art Bank of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary, Osan Museum of Art, Private Collection