Gyungsu An: Membrane

Gyungsu An is a South Korean painter working with borderline territories, where tension arises between two different systems—the city and the outskirts: those are compared to a “membrane” in its philosophical and aesthetic sense. His canvases convey the atmosphere of abandonment and neglect: the artist depicts what he calls the “median landscape”, a landscape on the boundary between living cities and cities that are turning to rubble, between lost habitation places and habitation places to be created soon.
In his words, “Looking at a landscape, I am transported into the past, I speak of the present, and imagine the future”.