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ONE AND J. GALLERY
2010.11
Among several phenomenon of Korean modern culture, 'multi-culture' is one of the most frequently discussed topics of today. In Korea, it is only very recent that we can directly face the symptoms of multi-culture in everyday life and it is becoming a social problem.
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ART+LOUNGE DIBANG
2010.10
Giographically, Seoul is the center of urban problem since it is surrounded by various sizes of mountains with excellent nature but has the most densely populated co-habitation housings (apartments). This work shows both of them. The apartment in the picture is the first generation apartment in Seoul under the urban organization policy by dismantling old traditional Korean-style houses to provide western-style apartments in 1971.
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2008.12
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Kumho Museum
2007.12
Figures in the painting of Lee Sang-won are our painted group as a distance view as ever.This attitude is often used not for a description of his own sentiment but an objectification of human cultural assets, like Hieronymous Bosch, Uccello or Bruegel in the past. A human being is objectified solely for expression of the fear of war and starvation, of a satire and a precept, or overlooking for men. In another way, men is placed emphasis as a king or authorities in the middle of plate to endow them with mental images and sentimentalism as well as the spotlight of romantic theatricality. Therefore, I think of it now that Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer and Raphael couldn’t help being more popular than Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.
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gallery175
2006.11
Have you watched or heard about the movie called Kill Bill? In this movie, Kill Bill, has a deep connection with swords that made by Han Zo. The sword of Han Zo that she was willing to get was not a hand made but it was made in China. "Made in China" Products are all over the world in these days. And therefore, in this time period, it is not a problem that just one sword is made in China. However, my point of this project is meeting of two different ideologies. Meeting of capitalism of Hollywood movie and labor intensive industry of China…. And if you think the term of "made in China" as China then there are many political issues to make stories out of it.
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gallery SoSo
2010.05
In her solo show titled Curtain, the artist Suh Haiyoung presents works inspired by scenes from the real life. In her most recent works we find her studying bones--she shaped fragmented skeletal structures such as bones of the finger, toe, rib and clavicle using resin--perhaps in her search for the very root of art. We also find her creating various forms and structures with bricks, the most typical and smallest unit composing urban buildings. Taking this brick motif to another level, she places it in the context of a temporal and spatial concept, utilizing it to structure an installation, or as an object, or employing it in diverse art forms such as video and painting. These efforts have produced signs and linguistic images that constitute the space in which we lead our lives.
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The New Art Gallery Walsall
2006.10
Think of a theory of photographed landscape. You might claim that most landscapes look to the future, for typically they show houses and roads and other structures which help us to deal with tomorrow’s eventualities. In a house we can shelter from bad weather, should it arise, and a road will take us to our destination. The spires and towers of religious buildings point to the long term future which we can only imagine. You can apply this theory quite easily to the great landscape of nineteenth century with their wealth of canals, tracks and farmlands. But the scheme doesn’t apply everywhere, for a tree, for instance, lives within its own seasonal time and the sea goes about its business in its own way.
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GALLERY ZANDARI
2008.06
There are harmless photographs that shock me inside. “Harmless” here does not mean that it would not offer inconvenience or tension. This harmless shock originates from Hyung-Geun Park’s preference for the rapture of images. Nietzsche said that art completes nature in a metaphysical way, which suggests that his work makes up nature in a sensual and aesthetic manner.
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Space Hamilton
2010.03
Nayoungim and Gregory Maass have collected everyday objects such as tiles, bowling balls, ashtrays, and snoopy dolls, signboards of karaoke bars from Europe to Korea, where they live a nomadic life. By reassembling the collected objects of modern civilization, they question the boundaries between function and non-function, objects and objectified objects.
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Gallery GRIMSON
2009.02
The basic language of Kim Kun-ju’s sculpture speaks of alienation, and refers to estrangement and de-familiarization, while the backbone of his technique is the de-contextualization of things. The world he dreams of is a revolt against, subversion of orderly systems between objects and objects and the world, in which de-familiarization arises. Through alienation, Kim attempts to review objects through subversion.
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