Gallery Simon is pleased to present Noh, Sang-Kyoon’s solo exhibition Light of Lightness, a turning point for the artist who has built his own formative language. Noh deviates from the plastic 'sequin' that has been used before and chooses a new material called 'phosphorescent pigment' to present the possibility of experimenting beyond the scope and limit of the two dimensional paintings.

His paintings, which absorb the energy of light and give off light in the dark for themselves, visualize the space of visual perception that awakens the sense of existence of the Holy, the Vulgar, Yin and Yang. The works of low-chroma colors and a dry and crumbly-looking surface texture are transferred to another dimension as the light disappears every 1 minute. At the temporal and spatial threshold, we find our sense of time and space increasingly dull as if surrounded by some unknown mysterious energy and induce into the space of light that crosses the boundaries of reality, unreality, rationality and sensation with throwing ourselves on the carpet of light besieging us.

In Noh’s paintings, the most basic sensibility touches the texture of the visitors’ sense and turns on the engine of imagination that has stopped working. The new works that reflect his agonies and introspection over the past 7 years meet the artistic identity of Noh, Sang-Kyoon who has gone through an inevitable process for new creation by going beyond the hard and solid sequins as if remaining forever.