LEE JEONGLOK | LEE JEONGWOONG | MATTEO MASSAGRANDE | JEFF ROBB | HWANG SEONTAE | CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
Preview | London 2015
Since graduating with Distinction from the Royal College of Art in 1992 with a Masters
degree in Fine Art Holography, Jeff Robb has continually made art, ceaselessly
experimenting with three-dimensional imaging. Shortly after graduating, he was
invited to submit a landscape work in to the V&A museum’s permanent collection,
the first ever hologram artwork to be accessioned by the museum. Robb’s work now
features in museums and private collections around the world.
Robb is currently best known for his lenticular photographic work focusing on the female
nude and abstract forms in space, which he makes in series. The artist has recently begun
to produce bronze sculptures working with the female nude, a subject familiar to him, using
cutting edge modelling technology combined with historic casting techniques. This radical
development is typical of Robb’s open experimental approach in making art, using any
combination of tools and technology available to him.
In parallel to developing lines of enquiry around the nude and abstraction in his lenticular
work, Robb is beginning to work on projects which investigate how we experience sound,
and large-scale kinetic installations for public spaces, museums and galleries. For many,
these new directions will at first seem uncharacteristic. Those who are familiar with Robb’s
approach and what drives him as an artist will understand the significance of each project
for him in testing possibilities with the lenticular medium, and creating new immersive
experiences using three-dimensional imaging and cutting edge technology. This kind of
experimental lenticular installation work is completely unchartered territory for artists.
Jeff Robb works in a variety of media including lenticular photography, painting, bronze and
silver cast sculpture, reflection and transmission holography, photography, film, laser light
and sound installations. The galleries here are representations of lenticular photography
that use a vertical lens array to present a stereo pair of images to the eyes. They are
3D pictures without glasses. The screen images cannot convey the visual impact of the
medium, so animations are used to simulate their 3D nature. While only eight images have
been chosen for each gallery, there are many more images available in each series. Please
visit or contact the gallery to see the full body of work. Jeff Robb is shown in galleries and
art fairs around the world.
JEFF ROBBSolo Show April 2015
Unnatural Causes 17 Lenticular PhotographEdition of 12: 75 x 75cmEdition of 9: 100 x 100cm2014
Free Fall 3 Lenticular PhotographEdition of 9: 86 x 116cmEdition of 7: 104 x 140cm2014
Free Fall 1 Lenticular PhotographEdition of 9: 86 x 116cmEdition of 7: 104 x 140cm2014
Unnatural Causes 28 Lenticular PhotographEdition of 12: 75 x 75cmEdition of 9: 100 x 100cm2014
Unnatural Causes 18 Lenticular PhotographEdition of 12: 75 x 75cmEdition of 9: 100 x 100cm2014
Christopher Thompson was born in Grimsby in 1969 and trained
at The Royal Academy Schools.
Thompson’s paintings originate as much from the artists own ideas
and thoughts as they are drawn from glimpses of his own life and the
world around him. Working from finely observed portrait studies,
Thompson manipulates these ‘truths’ with imagined memories
appropriated from elsewhere, weaving an enigmatic fiction that
takes on a new reality on canvas.
Captured in his delicate painterly technique and an often subdued
palette, Thompson’s compositions portray the human drama
inherent in gestures, glances and emotions. In combining his
imagined sources with observational accuracy, his work traverses the
divide between the real and the fictitious – one step removed from
reality, yet entirely authentic. His work expresses a fascination with
togetherness and individuality, with what is spoken and unspoken.
Sometimes his individuals appear lonely and detached - lost in
their own solipsistic thoughts - in others his figures are relational
and interacting, expressive and aware of one another. In each
composition, Thompson draws the viewer into the world he has
created; our dialogue with his characters is as much a part of the
unfolding story as the canvas itself.
CHRISTOPER THOMPSONSolo Show April 2015
Sleeping Figure (Study) Oil on Canvas41 x 51cm2014
Standing Figure Oil on Canvas122 x 91cm2014
Nightfall Oil on Canvas75 x 65cm2013
Searching for a site that cherishes the deep echoes of nature,
I arrived at Jeju Island. I was awestruck standing in front of
Jeju’s unique and alien nature that is extremely vibrant, almost
fearsome. It took two months before I was able to set up my
camera in front of this primordial nature that exceeds any
interpretation.
I found a tree that resembles Jeju Island and worked at seashores,
farms, or forests imbued with special inspirations. Although my long
indoor experience enabled me to handle flashlight skillfully, outdoor
photography was still a huge challenge. At least a week’s work
was required just to obtain basic data from a site. Jeju’s windy and
capricious weather was never predictable and films needed to be
sent back by air for development.
A tree of life that has emerged in the world again is a gate that
connects the visible and invisible worlds or the chasm between
them. Light stands for the communion between the visible and
invisible worlds. The tree of life symbolizes the interaction between
these two different worlds as it is. Our industrialized contemporary
society is laden with various stimulations that make us oblivious of
life’s fundamental source. I wanted to create a site where the vitality
of nature and the substantial world embedded in us meet. Beyond a
mere communication with nature, I hope we will be reminded of the
waves from the invisible world that have been always influencing our
life and history.
– Lee Jeonglok
LEE JEONGLOKExhibiting May 2015
Tree of Life in Island 5-1-4C-Type PrintEdition of 7: 120 x 160cmEdition of 10: 90 x 120cm2014
Tree of Life in Island 5-4-8C-Type PrintEdition of 7: 152 x 120cmEdition of 10: 120 x 95cm2014
Tree of Life in Island 5-4-10C-Type PrintEdition of 7: 152 x 120cmEdition of 10: 120 x 95cm2014
Hwang Seontae was born in South Korea in 1972. He studied at Kyunghee University
(B.F.A) and trained in glass art and sculpture at the University of Art and Design,
Halle, Germany. He later completed his postgraduate studies in Glass Art, at the
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in 2006.
The deracinated interiors of Hwang Seontae bring to mind Edward Hopper’s moments
of suspended time. The Korean conceptualist, Suh Do-ho, once precisely recreated his
apartment in New York and his flat in Seoul in nylon and silk drapes respectively, and left a
similar sense of longing to that left by Hwang’s still impressions. Longing rather than loss;
for these interiors are quiet contemplative spaces.
These minimalist interiors offer a rare moment of solace. As the light emanates through
the windows Hwang instills an instant feeling of calm and clarity of thought in the viewer.
A place that offers the opportunity to breath freely and face life on one’s own terms. In
an age where we are becoming increasingly more reliant on new media and material
culture, we live in a generation obsessed with ourselves and each other. The boundaries
between public and private life are increasingly becoming less distinguished that there
is little left to be deciphered or discovered. It seems there is no longer place for privacy,
even within the confines of our own homes, Hwang’s spaces provide a refreshing release
from societal pressures and show us that we do not need to let consumerism invade every
aspect of our life. Hwang Seontae has exhibited extensively across South Korea, New
York, Germany and Austria. In 2005, he won the Grand Prize for both the ‘Merseburger
Kunstpreis’ and the ‘Leowenhof-Foerderpreis’.
HWANG SEONTAEExhibiting May 2015
SiestaTempered Glass, Sandblast and LED Backlight102 x 81 x 5cm, 2014
(top) AfternoonTempered Glass, Sandblast and LED Backlight53 x 71 x 4.5cm, 2014
(above) A StudioTempered Glass, Sandblast and LED Backlight53 x 71 x 4.5cm, 2014
(top) The Room with A WindowTempered Glass, Sandblast and LED Backlight53 x 71 x 4.5cm, 2014
(above)The Room with Flowing AirTempered Glass, Sandblast and LED Backlight53 x 71 x 4.5cm, 2014
LEE JEONG WOONGSolo Show November 2015
Lee Jeong Woong was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1982. He trained at the Sungkyungkwan University in
Seoul. After his graduation in 2008, he participated in several group exhibitions and had two solo shows in
major art galleries in Seoul. He is an ardent student of the art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema yet his works reflect
his own aestheticism which tests the viewer’s mind with complex threads of symbolism and visual experiment.
For modern British viewers, it can be puzzling to see a Korean painter re-creating the style of the eminent Victorian
painter with a high degree of technical capacity. While late Victorian art has hardly been introduced into Korea, Lee’s
close study of artists in the period, such as Alma-Tadema and Waterhouse enables him to create a peculiar vision in
21st century Korea.
Just as Victorian aestheticism contrives to attack the senses of the viewer directly with its elevated naturalism, Lee’s
pictures speak out to the viewer by themselves through exploiting the power of mimesis. At the same time, it is easily
noticeable that he does not intend to forge convincing illusions. His figures are collaged and not quite integrated
within the same space, and they cannot represent any explicit narrative or theme despite his frequent playing with the
titles. Rather his paintings aspire to an abstract quality as he carefully experiments on the formal qualities, such as tone,
colour and space with his brush. At the same time, he uses his technique to crack his own problems and those of his
society. The elegant marble set in his pictures is occupied by contemporary Koreans including himself.
His attempt to recapitulate the consciousness and experience of himself and his nation through the odd mixture
between the symbol of western ideals (marble) and Korean images might be seen as reversed exoticism. But that is far
from the case, as he trained in Western modern art at a university which once was an ancient Confucian academy; the
mentality of modern Koreans is reflected in this visual conundrum.
It is impossible to decipher the complexity of the modern experience of the Koreans with one simple logical framework.
For instance, the traditional Japanese costume in his pictures is an object of beauty while it can function as an object
of aversion for the Korean viewers who remember the Japanese occupation (1910-1945). Concurrently, his pictures
are not a mere insipid construction of a collective memory. The individual concerns of the young artist to life, such as
beauty, affection and death, are always circulating on Lee’s canvas as the motivating force of his art.
ClytieOil on Canvas194 × 112cm2012
Rain StoppedOil on Canvas
112 x 162cm2013
No. 1Oil on Canvas50 x 72.5cm2013
Dissociative AnesthesiaOil on Canvas97 x 194cm2012
Silently Parade (Triptych)Oil on Canvas194 x 391cm2012
Matteo Massagrande was born in Padua, Italy in 1959.
Massagrande is an accomplished painter and a talented engraver.
He has exhibited in over one hundred exhibitions internationally
in the past 30 years.
In this new series of paintings Massagrande explores intimate interiors
in varying states of deterioration. These derelict urban spaces once so
full of life are hauntingly depicted through the use of light, subtlety of
palette and cinematic use of perspective. His hard and almost cynical
vision, which spotlights the hidden side of the urban environment,
bridges the realism which characterized the literary and artistic
creation of late XIX century Italy with gritty contemporary photo-
realism.
MATTEO MASSAGRANDESolo Show December 2015
Interno IOil on Board60 x 60cm2014
InternoOil on Board200 x 150cm2013
Interno IIOil on Board60 x 40cm2014
Interno IIIOil on Board20 x 20cm2014
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LEE JEONGLOK | LEE JEONGWOONG | MATTEO MASSAGRANDE
JEFF ROBB | HWANG SEONTAE | CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
Blue One-PieceLee JeongwoongOil on Canvas50 x 72.5cm2013
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