Ji-Eun Yoon
South Korea
Ji-Eun Yoon
Ji-Eun Yoon studied art in Seoul for four years and completed her university career at l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In her artistic practice she draws from the oldest and most traditional techniques of etching, lithography, pyrography, and their irreproachable and remarkable accuracy. Ji-Eun draws on and cuts a sheet of plywood by following the lines that are inscribed. She reads the years, the time of growth, as one reads the age of a tree, and keeps the memory of these passages. Her vast, grandiose landscapes are reduced to a flattened geological model where the figures appear tiny and out of place. Distorted proportions convey the feeling of incompatibility of the characters with the world around them – they appear locked in an inner world, yet the eye goes directly to them, giving their life meaning.
SOLO SHOWS
2013 Mirages, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
2012 Ce que je trouve (pas) chez elle, Maison des Arts de Crétéil, Crétéil, France
2010 Slow clouds puts you asleep, Schirman & de Beaucé Gallery, Paris, France (june-july)
2009 A Moment within a Moment, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
GROUP SHOWS
2013
12 x 12, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
Art on paper +1, White Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
Butterfly out of Eden, Galerie FELLINI, Berlin, Germany
2012
DMZ Korea, L’espace sans frontier, Paris, France
Planting an island in a pot, Atelier Gustave, paris, France
2011
Mougounghwa et sakura, galerie Grand E’terna et à l’UNESCO, Paris, France
Drawing now, carroussel du louvre, Paris, France
Westparcel, Kunstverein GRAZ, Rogenburg, Germany
Westparcel, Altefeuerzache, Berlin-Fiedrichshain, Germany
2010
Fiac, Galerie Schirman & de Beaucé, Paris, France
55ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
2009
Jeune Création, CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
Des chemins familiers, Maison des Associations du 16ème arrondissement, Paris, France
21sr century drawing artfair, Nikki Diana Marquardt Gallery, Paris, France
2008
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France, Paris (Drawing award Pierre David-Weil)
2004
Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Dukwon gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Selected for the Drawing Award Pierre David-Weil, Paris, France