Lee Jae Hoon
์ด์žฌํ›ˆ (b. 1978)
Lee Jae Hoon,  ํ”ผ๊ณ , ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ํผ์ง€๊ณ , 2022, Fresco Technique (Korean paper, quicklime, Chinese ink, charcoal, glue, oriental color), 118x79cm
์ด์žฌํ›ˆ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๋‚™์„œ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฆ‰ํฅ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์„ (็ทš)์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ธ ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰๊ณผ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ธ ‘๋ฒฝํ™”๊ธฐ๋ฒ•’์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ธ ๋ชจ์ข…์˜ ์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋Š”๋‹ค. 2007๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฒฝํ™” ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž‘์—…ํ•ด์˜จ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ”ํžˆ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šค์ฝ”(Fresco)๋ผ๊ณ  ์นญํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ํšŒ์ƒ‰์กฐ ํ™”๋ฉด(์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Œ๊ณผ ์ฝ˜ํฌ๋ฆฌํŠธ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฌผ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ํšŒํ™”์— ์ฐจ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์žฅ์ง€์— ์„ํšŒ์™€ ๋จน์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌผ์„ฑ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธ์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํšŒ๋ฒฝ์˜ ๋ฌผ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•œ๋‹ค)์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ์•„๋‚ธ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋น„ํŒ์  ์‹œ์„ ์„ ์€์œ ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทผ๋ž˜์—๋Š” ๋™์–‘ํšŒํ™”์˜ ์กฐํ˜• ์š”์†Œ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์„ (็ทš)์ด ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ถ”์ƒ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์™€์œ (่‡ฅ้Š, ์ž์—ฐ์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•œ ์‚ฐ์ˆ˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์— ๊ฑธ์–ด๋‘๊ณ  ๋ˆ„์›Œ์„œ ์œ ๋žŒํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป)๋ผ๋Š” ํ™”๋ก ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•œ ์ถ”์ƒ์  ์กฐํ˜• ํ˜•ํƒœ(์ง๊ด€์  ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰)์™€ ๊ทธ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฒฝํ™” ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ‘์žฌํ˜„์  ์ถ”์ƒ’์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ผ์ƒ ์† ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ „์œ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฌํ•ด์„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๋กœ์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญํ™”์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•ด์„์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋ก ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค.
ํŠนํžˆ 2018๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด‰๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์Œ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์–‘๊ฐ์ด ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ถ€์กฐ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ํšŒํ™”์ด์ž ์กฐ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒฝํ™” ํ˜น์€ ๋ถ€์กฐ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋”ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ฑด์‹ ๋ฒฝํ™”๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ํšŒํ™”๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ์™€ ์ด‰๊ฐ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ํ˜„์ƒ๊ณผ ์ œ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ธ์‹์„ ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ •๋ฌผ๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ‘๊ณต๊ฐ„’์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์˜ ‘์žฅ์†Œ’๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ชธ์ง“์—์„œ ์ถ•์ ๋œ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค ์œ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ•๋„๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ฐจ์ด, ๋ชจ๋…ธํ†ค์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ์œ„๋กœ ํฉ๋ฟŒ๋ ค์ง€๊ณ  ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ๋“ฏํ•œ ์ž๊ตญ์˜ ํ”์ ์€ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์† ๋„์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํ•ด์„์  ๊ธฐํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ํƒˆํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™์˜ ์ž์œ , ํ–‰์œ„์˜ ์ฆ‰ํฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๊ณ  ์ด‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฌผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผ์ฒด ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ถ”์ƒ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
์ด์žฌํ›ˆ์€ 1978๋…„ ์„œ์šธ ์ถœ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘์•™๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ์ผ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•™์› ํ•œ๊ตญํ™”ํ•™๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์กธ์—…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฑ๊ณผ ํ‘์˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋„˜๋‚˜๋“œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋…ธํ†ค์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋Š” ๋™์–‘ํšŒํ™”์˜ ์กฐํ˜• ์š”์†Œ๋กœ์„œ ์„ (็ทš)์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ถ”์ƒ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฑด์‹ ๋ฒฝํ™”๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์ธ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šค์ฝ”์˜ ํ…Œํฌ๋‹‰์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฌผ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋”ํ•ด ํšŒํ™”์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ฒฝํ™”๋‚˜ ๋ถ€์กฐ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ด์žฌํ›ˆ๋งŒ์˜ ์ถ”์ƒํšŒํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. 2008๋…„ ๊ธˆํ˜ธ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์—์„œ์˜ ์ฒซ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ <Unmomument>๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์‹ญ ๊ฑด์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์ „์‹œ์™€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋™์•„๋ฏธ์ˆ ์ƒ(2004), ๊ธˆํ˜ธ์˜์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ(2007), ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ์ Š์€๋ชจ์ƒ‰ ์„ ์ •(2008), ์ข…๊ทผ๋‹น ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ง€์ƒ(2021) ๋“ฑ์„ ์ˆ˜์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์žฌํ›ˆ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋ฆฝ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์‹œ๋ฆฝ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์€ํ–‰, ๋Œ€์›…์ œ์•ฝ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์•ผ์ฟ ๋ฅดํŠธ, ์ค‘์™ธ์ œ์•ฝ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ณณ์— ์†Œ์žฅ๋ผ ์žˆ๋‹ค.


Jae-Hoon Lee’s work captures drawings formed by spontaneous, graffiti-like, and sensory lines, alongside a unique “mural technique” that has become a signature of his practice, creating a distinct sense of place. Since 2007, Lee has utilized mural techniques in his work, producing the distinctive grayscale surfaces often referred to as frescoes. By employing materials such as lime and ink on traditional Korean paper (hanji) to emulate the texture of stone or concrete, and by scratching and layering, he conveys the materiality of plaster walls. Against the backdrop of this rough, scraped surface, Lee’s works have metaphorically expressed critical perspectives on society and institutional structures.
In recent years, he has focused on the abstract qualities of line in Eastern painting, as well as the concept of wayu (่‡ฅ้Š), which refers to placing a landscape painting in a room and experiencing it while lying down. By removing narrative elements, Lee presents abstract formal compositions (intuitive drawings) alongside his mural technique, reinterpreting everyday spaces and exploring new possibilities and methodologies for Korean painting within contemporary art.
Since 2018, Lee has experimented with making his images more tactile and substantial, employing relief techniques that use both bas-relief and low-relief, resulting in works that are perceived as both painting and sculpture. These pieces, which incorporate the textures of murals or reliefs, translate dry fresco techniques into painting, expressing tactile images while visualizing social phenomena and institutional critique through landscapes and still lifes. By doing so, he transforms society from a physical “space” into a “place” defined by values and experience.
The varying intensity of the lines that flow across his canvases, accumulated through the gestures of his body, and the traces scattered and dripped over monochromatic backgrounds, detach the symbolic meaning of the imagery and deepen abstraction. This combination of improvisational action, freedom of movement, and tactile materiality enables viewers to share an abstract experience between artist and audience.
Born in Seoul in 1978, Lee graduated from the Graduate School of Korean Painting at Chung-Ang University. His monochromatic works, navigating the spectrum between black and white, combine the abstraction of line as an element of Eastern painting with the materiality of dry fresco techniques, creating unique abstract paintings that possess the texture and presence of murals or reliefs.
Since his first solo exhibition, <Unmomument> at Kumho Museum of Art in 2008, Lee has participated in over fifty exhibitions and projects. He has received numerous awards, including the Dong-A Art Award (2004), Kumho Young Artist (2007), the Young Korean Artists Selection at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (2008), and the Chongkundang Art Award (2021). His works are held in the collections of Seoul Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Art, MMCA Art Bank, Daewoong Pharmaceutical, Korea Yakult, and JW Pharmaceutical, among others.
TEXTS

“<์กฐ์›์ˆ  ์—ฐ์Šต(้€ ๅœ’่ก“, Study for gardening)> ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญํ™”์—์„œ ๋†“์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ถ”์ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”์ƒ๋‹ด๋ก ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜ธํ™˜๋œ ‘์žฌํ˜„๋œ ์ถ”์ƒ’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์—ญ์„ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ‘์„œ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๋ชจ์ข…์˜ ์žฅ์†Œ’๋ฅผ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์‹คํ—˜์ด๋‹ค. “ 
2008๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์˜จ ์กฐ๊ฐ์  ํšŒํ™”๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๊ฑด์‹ ๋ฒฝํ™”๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ์‘์šฉํ•œ ์ด‰๊ฐ์  ํšŒํ™”์ด๋ฉฐ ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๋กœ์จ ๋™์–‘ํ™”์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ํšŒํ™”์˜ ์ด‰๊ฐ์  ์ธก๋ฉด์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์กฐํ˜•๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ฌผ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋จผ์ € ๋А๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ํŠน์ง•์„ ํšŒํ™”์— ์ ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ์ƒ์ž์˜ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ์ž๊ทนํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ‘๊ฐ์ƒ์ž – ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด – ๋„ค๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ’์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๋กœ์„œ ๊ฐ์ƒ์ž๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์‹œ์„ ์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‹ค.                                                                  
- ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋…ธํŠธ ์ค‘-  
The <Study for Gardening (้€ ๅœ’่ก“)> series is an experimental project that traces aspects often overlooked in contemporary Korean painting, creating a “paradoxical reproduced abstraction” that constructs a “place devoid of narrative” through the lens of abstract discourse.
Since 2008, Lee has employed a sculptural painting method—tactile paintings inspired by dry fresco techniques—which serves as an experiment in expanding the possibilities of traditional Eastern painting within contemporary art. The tactile quality of these paintings emphasizes materiality over purely visual form, allowing viewers to perceive texture before imagery. This approach stimulates the audience’s senses and establishes a connection between “viewer – medium – narrative,” drawing attention and guiding viewers to engage with social issues through visual art.

— From the artist’s note —
ARCHIVE

Lee Jae Hoon, Cha Young Seok: Line on the Line
GROUP EXHIBITION          OCTOBER 13 -  NOVEMBER 13, 2022
WORKS

Lee Jae Hoon,  ํ”ผ๊ณ , ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ํผ์ง€๊ณ , 2022, Fresco Technique (Korean paper, quicklime, Chinese ink, charcoal, glue, oriental color), 118x79cm
Lee Jae Hoon, ๋ฐ˜์ง, ๋ฒˆ์ฉ, ๋ฐ˜์ง, 2022, Fresco Technique (Korean paper, quicklime, Chinese ink, charcoal, glue, oriental color), 135x90cm
Lee Jae Hoon, ํ”ผ๊ณ , ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ํผ์ง€๊ณ , 2022, Fresco Technique (Korean paper, quicklime, Chinese ink, charcoal, glue, oriental color), 79x50cm
Lee Jae Hoon, Study for gardening, 2020,Fresco Technique (Korean paper, quicklime, Chinese ink, charcoal, glue, oriental color), 118x72cm