Mute : Instrumental Scenes: Yoshimura Munehiro (b. 1961)

전시 제목: Mute : Instrumental Scenes
작가: Yoshimura Munehiro (1961– )
장소: Gallery Woo
전시 기간: 2026년 2월 21일 – 2026년 3월 1일
관람 요일: 목, 금, 토, 일
관람 시간: 오전 11시 – 오후 4시 30분
전화: +82 51-742-6596

요시무라무네히로의회화는항상장면앞에서관객을잠시멈춰서게만든다.  그의화면은조용한리듬을유지한다.
그의그림에는인물이등장하기도하고, 완전히비어있는장면도있다. 그러나이차이는의미의과잉이나결핍이아니라리듬의차이에가깝다. 
말이많은장면과말이없는장면이서로를보완하며화면전체의흐름을완성한다.
 
작가는스스로를 “엄격한구도지상주의자”라고말한다. 구도는그의회화에서감정이나서사보다먼저화면을지탱하는질서다. 인물, 건물, 산과같은배경은모두계산된위치에놓이며, 
그결과그의그림은한편의영화장면처럼정지된순간을가진다.
 
그는열점의그림을그리면대략한점은인물이없는장면이된다고말한다. 작가는이러한그림을음악에비유해 ‘in·stru·men·tal 회화’라고부른다. 이는그가좋아하는밴드가앨범마다반드시한곡의연주곡을넣는방식과닮아있다. 
 
인물이사라진화면에서도요시무라무네히로의회화는침묵하지않는다. 오히려더많은여지를남기며, 관객이각자의속도로그장면안에머무를수있도록허락한다. 이그림들은이야기를요구하지않는다. 대신하나의장면안에조용히머무는시간을제안한다. 
 
이번전시에는일부리터칭된작품이함께소개된다. 작가는오래전부터기존의그림위에새로운이미지를덧그리는작업을반복해왔다. 이과정에서화면에는시간이차곡차곡쌓이고, 물감의밀도또한자연스럽게더해진다. 그결과리터칭된작품들은새로그려졌기보다오랜시간천천히손을거쳐지금의모습에이른그림처럼다가온다. 

Yoshimura Munehiro’s paintings make the viewer stop for a moment in front of a single scene.

His canvases maintain a quiet rhythm as if sound has been removed, containing a certain tension and balance whether there is a figure or not.
This exhibition, 〈Mute : Instrumental Scenes〉, suggests the pictorial rhythm created by scenes that do not speak and the time that stays within them.

In Yoshimura Munehiro’s works, scenes in which figures appear and scenes that are completely empty coexist. However, this difference is not an excess or lack of meaning, but rather close to a difference of rhythm. Scenes with much speech and scenes without speech complement one another, completing the overall flow of the picture.

The artist calls himself a “strict composition supremacist.” In his paintings, composition is the order that supports the image before emotion or narrative. Figures, buildings, and backgrounds such as mountains are placed in calculated positions. As a result, his paintings possess a frozen moment like a scene from a film.

Yoshimura says that out of ten paintings, approximately one is completed as a scene without a figure. He compares this kind of work to music and calls it “Instrumental painting.” Like a band that always includes one instrumental track in each album, the canvas without figures plays the role of adjusting the rhythm of the entire exhibition.