{"product_id":"yoon-byung-rock","title":"Yoon Byung Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003eWidely known as the “Apple Artist,” Yoon Byung-Rock was born in Yeongcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, in 1968. He received both his BFA and MFA in Western Painting from Kyungpook National University. He gained early recognition while still a student, receiving a Special Selection at the National Art Exhibition of Korea and the Grand Prize at the Daegu Art Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Yoon, the apple is both a familiar motif that evokes memories of home, abundance, and happiness, and a visual medium through which he explores the form and spatial possibilities of painting. Moving beyond the conventional rectangular canvas, he constructs uniquely shaped panels that follow the contours of his compositions. Combined with a bird’s-eye perspective, these unconventional supports create the illusion that the apples might roll beyond the picture plane and into the viewer’s space. His meticulous rendering and irregularly shaped surfaces blur the boundaries between two and three dimensions, image and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoon’s practice extends beyond the realistic depiction of apples. Rather than assigning the fruit a fixed symbolic meaning, he approaches it as a formal device through which he continually investigates the boundaries of painting. More recently, his sculptural apples made of FRP have brought the image beyond the painted surface and into physical exhibition space, further dissolving the distinction between painting and object. Through this familiar motif, Yoon continues to explore how far painting can extend beyond its conventional frame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53003953865015,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/beauxarts.kr\/products\/yoon-byung-rock","provider":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","version":"1.0","type":"link"}