Ano Conte
Artist Statement
These paintings are an all the time stories that human beings experience the boundary situation of prolongation (life) and stop (death) of life, in a very neutral and observant way. The starting point of the work is a collection of symbolized fragments of the memory of life through the ceremonial action of 'dive' (falling off, standing & going down) between the perspective connection point of land (related) and sea (last destination).
His main tools are geometry. It is a thoroughly calculated composition in which the straight line with the intended direction, the dotted line of the existential suggestion, the vertical relationship (above &below), the diagonal line, and the visual vanishing point unfold in the neutral frame of 'square'. His intention was a simple geometrical composition of the representational reality, but it is a little uncomfortable to introduce many symbolic and metaphorical elements.
In each painting, a series of symbolic elements are used, and they continue to be appeared. These elements are as if they are hidden in a drawer and cannot be thrown away until the end, and also they are both regrets and restraints. However, in the neutral square frame, all symbolic elements are used only as a device for composition, and the result is nothing more or less than geometric construction that remains except for all elements’ stories.
Very contrasting colors were used, and the physical properties of the land (solid) and water (liquid) and the contrasting physical properties of 'diving' (weight) and 'floating (air) in the environment of gravity.

#1 Flying Dive
2018, digital print on canvas, 130.3x130.3cm

#2 Sleeping Dive
2019, digital print on canvas, 90x90cm

#2 Deep dive
2019, digital print on canvas, 130.3x130.3cm

#5 Diving Retreat
2019, digital print on canvas, 130.3x130.3cm

#4 Dive Forever
2020, digital print on canvas. 130.3x130.3cm

#6 Milk-Crown Dive
2020, digital print on canvas, 130.3x130.3cm

#7 Palm Reader
2020, digital print on canvas, 130.3x130.3cm

#8 Half & Half (Front) Promo-Man Edition
2020, digital print, 224.2x224.2cm

#9 Half & Half (Side) Promo-Man Edition
2020, digital print, 224.2x224.2cm

#10 What a Small ‘Die-ve World’
2021, digital print, 130.3x130.3cm
Artist Biography
서울생으로 고려대학교 1993 와, Harvard University GSD (M. Arch.) 2000 졸업하고 건축문화 설계연구소, Davis Brody Bond, LLP, New York 에서 실무를 하였다. 2003년부터 건축연구소 Anonymous Contents를 개소하여 운영해 오고 있으며,경기대학교, 단국대학교, SAKIA Tutor로 활동했으며, 현재 건국대학교 건축전문대학원 설계스튜디오를 맡고 있다.
2006 부터 Ano Conte 이름으로 회화와 설치작업을 하고 있다.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Between 0.00062 miles, Kun-Kook Art & Desing Space, Seoul
2010 Breeding Cubes, COMO, Arts Center Navi, Seoul
2010 Bilaterian Nation, Gallery Plant, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Silly Eyes – Geometry Revision, Wide Gallery, Seoul
2014 Counting Geometrical #, Gallery MOA, Paju
2012 Geo-soft hard Ice-cream, Chungmu Arts Center, Seoul
2012 Vanishing Pointing Arrow, Metaphor Arts Gallery, Seoul
2009 Geometry XYZ, Pechakucha, Seoul
2008 Nine Cubes, Expo Museum, Daegu
2006 Resetting a Compass, Gana Arts Space, Seoul