•  Asia Now Art Fair
    Booth S19
    20 – 23 OCTOBER 2022
    Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris
      
    For its inaugural participation at Asia Now art fair, Galerie Marguo is pleased to present a solo booth of Korean artist Yang Semine. Comprising of a suite of new paintings from her Dragonfly series, this presentation will showcase Semine’s unique world inspired by nature and our inextricable place in its ecology.
     
    The theme of metamorphosis, repetition and difference, is particularly voiced in Yang Semine’s Dragonfly series, a meditation on light, color, weight, volume, and form – the fundamentals of painting. These entomologically inspired compositions likewise begin as digital drawings before they are translated back into the material and organic world, becoming a surface for the artist’s associative and intuitive experimentations that are reflected in the titles of each work.
     
     
    VIP PREVIEW
    Thursday 20 October, 2 – 8 pm
    Friday 21 – Sunday 23 October, 10 – 11 am 
     
    PUBLIC
    Friday 21 October, 11 am – 8 pm
    Saturday 22 October, 11 am – 8 pm
    Sunday 23 October, 11 am – 6 pm
    Booth S19 20 – 23 OCTOBER 2022 Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris For its inaugural participation...
    Gate of Hell, 2022
  • Directed by Tianhao Wu, Yang Semine
  • TRANSPARENCY & OBSTRUCTION

    Blue Monster, 2022 (detail)
  • Franck Gautherot, curator and co-director of Le Consortium, Dijon, France, delves deep into Yang Semine’s painting practice and recent works in these words: 
     
    "For more than two years, Yang Semine has been developing a way of painting in which the dialectic of background/form is played out in the transparency of liquid acrylics diluted in superimposed layers of backgrounds, pushing the subject to the front of the canvas. The transparencies of ink washes from the time of Joseon, the diaphanousness of dragonflies placed in trompe l'oeil on all the flowers of Abraham Mignon - for example - gave her the kick-off for her series known as ‘dragonflies’."
    • Yang Semine Gate of Hell, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Gate of Hell, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
    • Yang Semine Green Ray, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Green Ray, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
    • Yang Semine Blue Monster, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Blue Monster, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
  • Green Ray, 2022 (detail)
  • Gate of Hell, 2022 (detail)
    • Yang Semine Rose River Valley, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Rose River Valley, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
    • Yang Semine Medieval, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Medieval, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
  • The insect, simplified to the extreme, purified in a long body and a scribbled head, is the perfect recipient of a decorative treatment applied to the wings: hatching, interlacing, wavy lines, horizontal and vertical lines, vernacular patterns in delicate chinoiserie.
     
    — Franck Gautherot
    Rose River Valley, 2022 (detail)
  • Colored marble, 2022 (detail)
  • The dragonflies are extended with inventive variations in which the transparency of the superimposed colored flat areas is organized into a field of attraction on which the motifs find their ease. The construction of the painting involves the inscription of the body and wings of the insect in its stature of a cross with two tangential branches at the vertical edges on a background decorated with more or less defined motifs or color gradations.
     
    — Franck Gautherot
    • Yang Semine Yellow Sleeves, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
      Yang Semine
      Yellow Sleeves, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
    • Yang Semine Colored Marble, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
      Yang Semine
      Colored Marble, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
    • Yang Semine Primary Layers, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
      Yang Semine
      Primary Layers, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
    • Yang Semine K-Painting Oskar, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
      Yang Semine
      K-Painting Oskar, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      90 x 70 cm (35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
  • Temple of Cloud, 2022 (detail)
  • Hawaiian Glow, 2022 (detail)
  • The shift from a cavalier perspective to a multifocal vision displayed in a brand new series of horizontal paintings, highlights - shimmering reflections of the sun on the surface of the water - fish schematized in two triangles joined together, spinning the metaphor of fluidity in an environment of (fresh?) water sometimes ornated with algae.
     
    The circles in the water, the wave trains, the flashes of light, accompany the quiet stroll of the fish distributed in odd numbers from left to right and vice versa. The Hawaiian palette, like the colorful shirts of the same geography, displays an optimistic seaside exoticism with a non-illusionistic depth.
     
    — Franck Gautherot
    • Yang Semine Hawaiian Glow, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 190 cm (55 1/8 x 74 3/4 in)
      Yang Semine
      Hawaiian Glow, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      140 x 190 cm (55 1/8 x 74 3/4 in)
    • Yang Semine Yellow Green Ripple, 2022 Oil on Canvas 110 x 150 cm (43 1/4 x 59 in)
      Yang Semine
      Yellow Green Ripple, 2022
      Oil on Canvas
      110 x 150 cm (43 1/4 x 59 in)
  • Totem, 2020 (detail)
  • Yang initiates every painting with a digital drawing, which is conceived as the receptacle of what she would call ‘mental images’. These are graphic moments in which all the tools available are used to mimic hand-drawing with the effects of washes, blurring, lines, watercolors. These moments of assisted drawing are born in the memories of paintings crossed everywhere.
     
    — Franck Gautherot
  • Totem, 2022 (detail)
    • Yang Semine Totem, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Totem, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
    • Yang Semine Take Off, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Take Off, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
    • Yang Semine Funky Circles, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Funky Circles, 2021
      Acrylic on canvas
      120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
    • Yang Semine Knite, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
      Yang Semine
      Knite, 2022
      Acrylic on canvas
      120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
  • Take Off, 2022
  • While it may seem ironic to address themes of biodiversity and the natural world from a digital starting point, for Yang Semine, the ability to work quickly, itinerantly, and without producing waste reflects a greater ethos toward practicing a non-extractive and harmonious existence. As we find ourselves in an increasingly technologically dominated and virtually integrated world, Yang’s work can be seen as a formal inquiry into the translation and hybridity of organic and inorganic textural nuances.
     
    — Franck Gautherot
  • ABOUT THE ARTIST

    ABOUT THE ARTIST

     

    Yang Semine (b.1985, Seoul, Korea) lives and works in Dijon, France. She holds a BFA and MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon, and a degree in Fine Art from the Seoul National University of Science and Technology.

     

    Her work was recently included in an institutional exhibition The Drawing Centre Show, curated by Joe Bradley, Franck Gautherot, Seungduk Kim and Tobias Pils, at Le Consortium, Dijon in July 2022 and a group presentation with Galerie Marguo at Art Paris fair in April 2022. Her recent solo exhibitions include an online exhibition Next Wave with Galerie Marguo (Paris, April 2022) and L’étrange familier at Octave Cowbell (Metz, 2019). Yang is the recipient of the 2018 Prix Jeune Talents Côte-d’Or.

     

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    Medieval, 2022 (detail)