Marking the beginning of the YZHQ_Z1 gallery, this exhibition captures varying perspectives on the aesthetics of flowers by the YZHQ_Z1 CEO Young Ju Moon and oriental painting artist Yusun Jung.
The flower goes through the natural cycle of sprouting, growing, blooming, withering, and producing seeds again. In the process of repeating this, it reaches a state of non-existence with the wisdom of intuiting life and death, life and nothingness. The seeds meet the splendid moments when they germinate and become beautiful, vibrant flowers after the silent, condensed time of their insignificant beginnings.
Artist Young Ju Moon has been working on capturing the splendid moments of flowers. This moment adds its beautiful fragrance to the space, providing emotional stability for a long time. Though subjective, the artist believes everyone has a lovely moment like a flower. His flower works express that such moments are temporary.
Natural flowers depict the aesthetics of time - most beautiful when reaching their peaks but slowly fading away. With this in mind, he focuses on the most beautiful moments of the subject.
Using traditional oriental coloring, artist Jeong Yooseon employs countless shapes implying the past, present, and future of plants grown in the garden. The small seed in the canvas represents the world as an infinite realm of countless moments circulating in polarities, such as life and death, large and small, and success and failure.
A small dot-like seed symbolizes a precious being full of infinite potential. Moreover, the bulbs and seeds that endure the harsh coldness in the ground to bloom desirable, vibrant flowers convey the hope that the moment of lasting yet silent patience will eventually be beautiful.
Though the authors' perspectives on flowers may differ, they are the same at a comprehensive level. Moon focuses on the peak, beautiful moments of ephemeral flowers, while Jung views flowers as being in the process of the infinite cycle of nature. Yet, they all view the flowers as aesthetic objects. In the end, the audience will find the answer and wisdom to this philosophical view as they appreciate the aesthetics of the flowers.