Krazyrabbit
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K R A Z Y A B B I T

KR
Artist & Art therapist 
Seoul, Korea.
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Artist statment
At the age of 20, a character resembling a rabbit and an alien began to appear in my diary, where I scribbled about my struggles and wanderings. Since then, this alien has become the protagonist of my illustrated diary, and I have come to be called the "Krazyrabbit" by those around me. I didn't mind the name.I started drawing the Krazyrabbit as a substitute for the anxiety and loneliness I felt in the world, and I believed it brought me some healing. With a conviction in art therapy, I enrolled in a graduate program in art therapy to gain a deeper understanding of the various symbols appearing in my drawings.Although I started studying art therapy with great curiosity, it was also a painful process of dissecting myself. It felt like lying on a surgical table, looking up and struggling to see my own split-open belly.
After overcoming the cold surgical table and being able to sort out who I am, how to relate to others, and my fragmented emotions and thoughts, I started writing my thesis and realized my own naivety. People suffer because they do things that do not match their existence. The discomfort and awkwardness of floating in a void, not knowing who I am or where I am in the midst of dissatisfaction and anxiety, can become a driving force in art. But in reality, it can also cause great mental exhaustion. Through studying art therapy, I tried to overcome this intellectually.

I gradually realized that the appearance of the krazyrabbits represented various egos within me, and that I was relieving myself by drawing them in my efforts to unify them. In moments of anxiety and loneliness, I may have let these avatars dance on the stage on my behalf, while I hid behind the stage curtain, feeling relieved.
As I wondered whether I could only draw because of my anxiety or whether I was drawing to overcome my anxiety, I came across the quote by French writer Andre Malraux: "Neurosis creates art and art cures neurosis." I sometimes sketch before drawing, but most of the time I just draw freely without planning, so I don't know what the final product will look like until it's finished. Sometimes I draw in a complex way, like carving with a pen, but I don't mind the unfinished or rough parts, as it shows the progress of my emotional and artistic journey.
I empty my mind through the complex drawings. When I continue to draw repetitive dots and lines, I forget about other things.The keywords of my work are integration of fragmented self, archetype, anxiety, emptiness, healing, and forgetting through play.Continuously drawing while emptying my mind into a peaceful state is the recent focus of my work.Human beings are a universe in themselves. Through forgetting, we constantly empty that infinite universe.We must empty it in order for new things to come in. Drawing is an act of emptying through the practice of forgetting for me.



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20살, 불안과 방황으로 끄적이던 일기장에 토끼와 닮은 우주인의 캐릭터가 등장하기 시작했다. 그 우주인은 그때부터 나의 분신으로서 모든 그림에 등장했고, 어느샌가 주변인들에 의해 미친 토끼로 불리기 시작했다. 나는 그 이름이 싫지 않았다. 나는 세상 속에서 느껴지는 불안과 고독을 대신에 그렇게 미친 토끼들을 그리기 시작했고 테라피를 느꼈다. 그림에서 나오는 상징적인 표현들과 치유적인 힘에 매력을 느껴 미술치료를 공부하였으나, 그것은 나 자신을 해부하는 고통스러운 과정이었다. 이것들은 모두 다른 모습을 하고 있으나 내가 가진 다양한 자아들이라는 의심과 분열된 자아들을 통합시키려는 노력으로 토끼들을 그려가면서 심적 고통을 해소하고 있던 것을 깨닫게 되었다. 그렇게 나의 고독과 불안의 발작들이 나를 대신에 무대 위에서 춤추고 있었다. 불안하기 때문에 그릴 수밖에 없는 것인지 이 불안들을 극복하기 위해 그리는지,  뫼비우스처럼 이어진 그 얇은 경계 위에서 지금은 위태롭게 걸어가고 있지만, 언젠가는 내가 생각했던 그곳에 도달할 것이다. 
2019.XX.XX





Group Exhibition

2007 [digital speaker] Gallery king with artist Kimwho, 덕원갤러리
2007 [graduate exhibition 미친 토끼 싸이코 테스트] IDAS, Hongik univ. 
2008 [Kyung Hyang Art Festival Exhibition], 경향갤러리
2008 [ELASTISM] ,Becoming Art Gallery 초대전 
2010 [서울2050], 언오피셜 프리뷰 갤러리
2011 [honored workers], 57th 갤러리 
2012 [입춘대길전/말하는동물전], 드로잉일레븐
2012 [무한급수(無限級數)]전. 57th 갤러리 
2013 [판], 동국대학원 제18회 문화예술제
2015 [아트캔퍼스] Gallery41
2015 [Begether] 무지개 초대 그룹전,  Gallery Art space H 
2015 [광복 70주년 가슴뛰게하는 태극기], 용산 전쟁기념관
2015 [대학민국영웅전] 국가보훈처, 정부청사
2016 [각양각색] 한전아트센터 갤러리
2017 [Begin Again] 전, 2017년 그룹무지개 초대전, 리홀아트갤러리
Solo Exhibition

1st. solo_2019. 3/27~4/24 _ NAMIB Gallery_
서울시 용산구 신흥로 21, 10000LAB X NAMIB.
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