Passersby, Flesh off_Oil bar on Linen_39.5x29.7cm_2013

Passersby, Self-Portrait, June_30x20cm_Oil bar on Linen_2011

Passersby, Notting hill, London_30x20cm_Oil bar on Linen_2011

Passersby, Outrageous_38.5x25.6cm_Oil bar on Linen_2013

Passersby, Soldier_2010_30x20cm_Oil bar on Linen

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Jaeyeol Han is a painter and a paint-maker who works in Seoul, South Korea. Passersby is one of his contemporary art projects. He started it from 2011 and the paintings are now over 500 pieces. This text below is about his works. Please visit his website and Social medias if you want to see more his works.

Jaeyeol Han has been continually experimenting with the sculptural and structural aspects of painting, currently focusing on portraiture. His experiments began during his military service in 2010 during which he was deployed to post-earthquake Haiti for seven months, where he began to be interested in existences that are corporeal yet invisible to the eye. The interest has since moved onto expressing narrative through painterly painting, and recently he has been enlarging his portraits collected over the last four years to extreme scales. Both as a contemporary artist and a painter, Jaeyeol now assigns his captured passersby roles as if they were actors of a stageplay, then combining them with a text using a narrative-based theatrical device; experimenting with the compositional possibilities of a flat surface.

Exhibitions

• April 2016, Passersby : The Beneath, National Assembly Member's Office Bldg., Seoul, Republic of Korea
• September 2016, Luxembourg Art Prize, Gelerie Hervé Lancelin, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
• March 2016, You and Me, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• December 2015, POSCO Art Museum Award, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• June 2014, Start, Saatchi Gallery, London, England

Website

http://jaeyoelhan.com
https://www.facebook.com/hanjaeyeol
https://www.instagram.com/jaeyeolhan