TETTO_ X JO Yun Guk
As a collaboration product between young artists and TETTO, it is an item that covers individuality and unique works.
All of TETTO's products are created in collaboration with artists. Each product is produced only in a small amount edition. Therefore, except for edition production, No more crafting.
Artist statement _ My City Subtopia
Subtopia, signifies a world situated in the middle ground, neither Utopia nor Dystopia.
I consider the world of today to be a Subtopia.
We have lost the Utopia that humanity imagined and dreamed of in the past.Contrary to its sturdy exterior,
this space, built of lightweight paper, is a concrete and familiar environment where the old and worn—
and all values that once existed as foundations—are covered up by the same ideologies, desires, and architecture
Here, one cannot find traces of human presence, the symbols that constitute a city, landmarks, or the devices
and elements that connect them. This repetitive and familiar space, devoid of any secrets, strangeness, or riddles,
exists as an "abstract space" that holds no meaning beyond the strangeness of the outside world.
Nevertheless, the reason we perceive Subtopia not as "Dead Spaces" but as "Vitalized Spaces"—that is,
as the world we live in—is due to the numerous windows uniformly
arranged across the front of each block that makes up Subtopia.
Through these windows, we attempt to infer traces of people and the city here, but we soon lose our way.
Just as Gottfried W. Leibniz said, "There are no windows in a monad,"
these windows, tightly sealed without communication,
seem unlikely to ever open, and no entrance can be found anywhere in the blocks.
The closed structures of the windows and the square blocks paradoxically symbolize individuals isolated
within a city unable to dream or form relationships.
They reveal a closed space that combines seamlessly to the extreme,
blocking off any possibility of connection.However, just as everything related to human life is lost,
this current subtopia will also eventually be lost. As the impregnable surface gradually cracks, fades, is covered,
crumbles, and erodes, it will eventually become a ruin and be lost, just as everything else does.
And this ruin will not be the end, but will enable reconstruction and find an escape route to the next world.
I view this process as drifting in search of an exit in a world of Subtopia—a point in between,
neither Utopia nor Dystopia. My work, *Subtopia*, embodies these thoughts and the aspects of this process.
ABOUT _ JO Yun Guk
Education
2013 Completed coursework at Gangneung National University Graduate School of Art Education
2011 Graduated from Gangneung National University, Department of Fine Arts, Major in Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Blind Corner City, Gallery Space N, Incheon
2022 Brew the ART - Jo Yoon-guk, Klairs Seoul, Seoul
2020 Subtopia: Familiar Strangeness, Palais de Seoul, Seoul
2018 Memory of Loss, ARTWA, Seoul
2017 Island, Rational Isolation, Palais de Seoul, Seoul
2016 Space of Secrets and Balance, Chuncheon Museum of Art, Chuncheon
2015 Landscape Within, Yeon Gallery, Jeju
2015 Reconstruction of Space by Memory, BCS Gallery, New York, USA
2014 Creating Space, Chuncheon Museum of Art, Chuncheon
2011 For The Extra, Sai Art Gallery, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2024 1st Young Artist Exhibition Open Call “YOUTH”, White Stone Gallery, Seoul
2024 “My City, My Music” Two-Person Exhibition, Gallery DA, Hanam
2023 5th ‘Satire and Humor’, Ecorock Gallery, Goyang
2023 ‘Enclosed in a Structure’ Three-Person Exhibition, Gallery h.o.m, Seoul
2022 ‘True Luxury with ART’, InterContinental Parnas Hotel, Seoul
2021 22nd Danwon Art Festival Selected Artists Exhibition - Space Behind the Scenes, Danwon Museum of Art, Ansan
2021 New Age Art, Olmi Art Space, Seoul
2018 CAN ART GO TOO FAR? Shanghai, Huachui Art Center, Shanghai, China2018 CAN ART GO TOO FAR?
2018, ARTWA, Seoul2018 Gangneung Museum of Art Special Exhibition - The Way Home, Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung2017 Museum SAN Special Exhibition - Paper Sculpture, Museum SAN, Wonju
2017 Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul
2017 National Asian Culture Center Special Exhibition - Lotus Land, National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju
2017 The 2nd New Drawing Project, Yangju Chang Uck-jin Art Museum, Yangju
2016 The 5th Asian Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul
Art Fairs and Biennale Special Exhibitions
2023 Galleries Art Fair Special Exhibition ZOOM-IN Edition 4, COEX, Seoul
2022 START Art Fair London, Saatchi Gallery, London
2022 START Art Fair Seoul, The Seouliteum, Seoul
2022 True Luxury with ART, Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas Hotel, Seoul
2022 Brew the ART - Cho Yoon-kook, Klairs Seoul, Seoul
2018 Union Art Fair 2018, S Factory, Seoul2018 START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
2018 Art Capital 2018 Société des Artistes Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
2017 PyeongChang Biennale
2017 - Five Moons: Return of the Anonymous and the Unknown, Gangneung Green Experience Center, Gangneung2016 Korea International Art Fair KIAF
2016, InterContinental Seoul COEX, Seoul2016 Art Seoul, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seou
l2016 Design Art Fair
2016, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2016 The 4th Daejeon International Art Show, Daejeon Trade Center, Daejeon, Korea
2015 5th HFAF Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, USA
2015 8th Art Hamptons, Hampton, USA
Publication
KOREAN EYE 2020 - Contemporary Korean Art, SKIRA, 2020Major
Awards
2021 Selected Artist for the 22nd Danwon Art Festival, Ansan Cultural Foundation
2017 2nd New Drawing Project Competition - Excellence Award, Yangju Museum of Art Jang Wook-jin
2016 GIAF Asia Contemporary Art Young Artist Competition - Grand Prize (Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award), GIAF Art Association
2016 Design Art Fair
2016 Fine Arts Sector Planning Competition - Silver Award, Design Art Fair Secretariat
2015 1st Art Space ARPNY Residency (New York) Artist Competition - Top Excellence Award, Scalatium Group
Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Art Bank & Government Art Bank,
Yangju Museum of Art Chang Uk-jin, Korea Paper Foundation,
Crown Haitai Art Valley, Scalatium, Parallel Contemporary Art UK
PRODUCT INFO
Subtopia (Bule.02)_2023
paper board, mixed media on wood panel
102.4 x 67.2cm
고객센터
+82 10-4767-8610 / attettol@gmail.com
CS: 평일 AM 9:00 - PM 6:00 (Lunch PM 1:00 - PM 2:00 / 주말 및 공휴일 휴무)
Business Name 앤드보리나(Andborina) | CEO 위희정 Wee Hee Jung
Business License 268-19-01378 | Communication Sales Business Report 2020-서울강남-01482
Address 강남구 언주로30길10, 현대비젼 923호 / 10, Eonju-ro 30-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
TETTO_ X JO Yun Guk
As a collaboration product between young artists and TETTO, it is an item that covers individuality and unique works.
All of TETTO's products are created in collaboration with artists. Each product is produced only in a small amount edition. Therefore, except for edition production, No more crafting.
Artist statement _ My City Subtopia
Subtopia, signifies a world situated in the middle ground, neither Utopia nor Dystopia.
I consider the world of today to be a Subtopia.
We have lost the Utopia that humanity imagined and dreamed of in the past.Contrary to its sturdy exterior,
this space, built of lightweight paper, is a concrete and familiar environment where the old and worn—
and all values that once existed as foundations—are covered up by the same ideologies, desires, and architecture
Here, one cannot find traces of human presence, the symbols that constitute a city, landmarks, or the devices
and elements that connect them. This repetitive and familiar space, devoid of any secrets, strangeness, or riddles,
exists as an "abstract space" that holds no meaning beyond the strangeness of the outside world.
Nevertheless, the reason we perceive Subtopia not as "Dead Spaces" but as "Vitalized Spaces"—that is,
as the world we live in—is due to the numerous windows uniformly
arranged across the front of each block that makes up Subtopia.
Through these windows, we attempt to infer traces of people and the city here, but we soon lose our way.
Just as Gottfried W. Leibniz said, "There are no windows in a monad,"
these windows, tightly sealed without communication,
seem unlikely to ever open, and no entrance can be found anywhere in the blocks.
The closed structures of the windows and the square blocks paradoxically symbolize individuals isolated
within a city unable to dream or form relationships.
They reveal a closed space that combines seamlessly to the extreme,
blocking off any possibility of connection.However, just as everything related to human life is lost,
this current subtopia will also eventually be lost. As the impregnable surface gradually cracks, fades, is covered,
crumbles, and erodes, it will eventually become a ruin and be lost, just as everything else does.
And this ruin will not be the end, but will enable reconstruction and find an escape route to the next world.
I view this process as drifting in search of an exit in a world of Subtopia—a point in between,
neither Utopia nor Dystopia. My work, *Subtopia*, embodies these thoughts and the aspects of this process.
ABOUT _ JO Yun Guk
Education
2013 Completed coursework at Gangneung National University Graduate School of Art Education
2011 Graduated from Gangneung National University, Department of Fine Arts, Major in Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Blind Corner City, Gallery Space N, Incheon
2022 Brew the ART - Jo Yoon-guk, Klairs Seoul, Seoul
2020 Subtopia: Familiar Strangeness, Palais de Seoul, Seoul
2018 Memory of Loss, ARTWA, Seoul
2017 Island, Rational Isolation, Palais de Seoul, Seoul
2016 Space of Secrets and Balance, Chuncheon Museum of Art, Chuncheon
2015 Landscape Within, Yeon Gallery, Jeju
2015 Reconstruction of Space by Memory, BCS Gallery, New York, USA
2014 Creating Space, Chuncheon Museum of Art, Chuncheon
2011 For The Extra, Sai Art Gallery, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2024 1st Young Artist Exhibition Open Call “YOUTH”, White Stone Gallery, Seoul
2024 “My City, My Music” Two-Person Exhibition, Gallery DA, Hanam
2023 5th ‘Satire and Humor’, Ecorock Gallery, Goyang
2023 ‘Enclosed in a Structure’ Three-Person Exhibition, Gallery h.o.m, Seoul
2022 ‘True Luxury with ART’, InterContinental Parnas Hotel, Seoul
2021 22nd Danwon Art Festival Selected Artists Exhibition - Space Behind the Scenes, Danwon Museum of Art, Ansan
2021 New Age Art, Olmi Art Space, Seoul
2018 CAN ART GO TOO FAR? Shanghai, Huachui Art Center, Shanghai, China2018 CAN ART GO TOO FAR?
2018, ARTWA, Seoul2018 Gangneung Museum of Art Special Exhibition - The Way Home, Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung2017 Museum SAN Special Exhibition - Paper Sculpture, Museum SAN, Wonju
2017 Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul
2017 National Asian Culture Center Special Exhibition - Lotus Land, National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju
2017 The 2nd New Drawing Project, Yangju Chang Uck-jin Art Museum, Yangju
2016 The 5th Asian Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul
Art Fairs and Biennale Special Exhibitions
2023 Galleries Art Fair Special Exhibition ZOOM-IN Edition 4, COEX, Seoul
2022 START Art Fair London, Saatchi Gallery, London
2022 START Art Fair Seoul, The Seouliteum, Seoul
2022 True Luxury with ART, Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas Hotel, Seoul
2022 Brew the ART - Cho Yoon-kook, Klairs Seoul, Seoul
2018 Union Art Fair 2018, S Factory, Seoul2018 START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
2018 Art Capital 2018 Société des Artistes Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
2017 PyeongChang Biennale
2017 - Five Moons: Return of the Anonymous and the Unknown, Gangneung Green Experience Center, Gangneung2016 Korea International Art Fair KIAF
2016, InterContinental Seoul COEX, Seoul2016 Art Seoul, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seou
l2016 Design Art Fair
2016, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2016 The 4th Daejeon International Art Show, Daejeon Trade Center, Daejeon, Korea
2015 5th HFAF Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, USA
2015 8th Art Hamptons, Hampton, USA
Publication
KOREAN EYE 2020 - Contemporary Korean Art, SKIRA, 2020Major
Awards
2021 Selected Artist for the 22nd Danwon Art Festival, Ansan Cultural Foundation
2017 2nd New Drawing Project Competition - Excellence Award, Yangju Museum of Art Jang Wook-jin
2016 GIAF Asia Contemporary Art Young Artist Competition - Grand Prize (Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award), GIAF Art Association
2016 Design Art Fair
2016 Fine Arts Sector Planning Competition - Silver Award, Design Art Fair Secretariat
2015 1st Art Space ARPNY Residency (New York) Artist Competition - Top Excellence Award, Scalatium Group
Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Art Bank & Government Art Bank,
Yangju Museum of Art Chang Uk-jin, Korea Paper Foundation,
Crown Haitai Art Valley, Scalatium, Parallel Contemporary Art UK
PRODUCT INFO
Subtopia (Bule.02)_2023
paper board, mixed media on wood panel
102.4 x 67.2cm
고객센터
+82 10-4767-8610 / attettol@gmail.com
CS: 평일 AM 9:00 - PM 6:00 (Lunch PM 1:00 - PM 2:00 / 주말 및 공휴일 휴무)
Business Name 앤드보리나(Andborina) | CEO 위희정 Wee Hee Jung
Business License 268-19-01378 | Communication Sales Business Report 2020-서울강남-01482
Address 강남구 언주로30길10, 현대비젼 923호 / 10, Eonju-ro 30-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
