Jun Youngjin·LEE Sihyeon

Jun Youngjin, Painting on painting 2420, 60.6×72.7×4.0cm , 2024

We encounter countless landscapes every day, yet most of these scenes pass by without truly lingering.

Jun Youngjin, Geometric Scenery 2602, 45.5×53.0×2.0cm, 2026

In Jun Youngjin’s work, the landscape does not appear simply as a subject for representing nature, but as a device that reveals the structure and essence of painting itself. The scenes in his paintings are simplified into geometric compositions of color and planes, where divided fields of color assemble the image like pixels, forming a restrained painterly structure. Through this process of simplification, the landscape is reconsidered through the relationships between color and form. As viewers look at the landscape within the painting, they simultaneously become aware of the painting as an object in itself. Jun’s simple landscapes momentarily suspend our gaze within the complexity of the world and renew our perception of how we look at a landscape.

LEE Sihyeon, 단단하고 질긴, Oil on canvas, 162.2×130.3 cm, 2026

Lee Sihyeon’’s work begins from the sensory experiences the body encounters in nature. Stepping away from the order of the city, the artist enters natural environments and records the energies and sensations encountered there onto the surface of the canvas. For the artist, nature is not merely something to be observed, but a field of experience where the senses awaken. Landscapes emerge through sensations and temperatures absorbed by the body. The rough textures and material qualities that remain on the canvas evoke the tactile experience of nature, inviting viewers not only to look at the landscape but also to dwell within it for a moment.

LEE Sihyeon, 청송, 보루堡壘, Oil on canvas, 181.8×227.3cm, 2026

Although the two artists approach landscape in different ways, viewers encounter a shared experience before their works. While Jun Youngjin’s landscapes pause the viewer’s gaze through simplified structures of color and form, Lee Sihyeon’s landscapes invite the body to linger within the sensory