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September 14, 2006- October 29, 2006
Reception: September 14, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Bien-U Bae
Galerie Poller
547 W 27th StBAE Bien-U (*1950 in Yosu, South Korea) has preferred to photograph the pines on the hills in the suburbs of the old town of Gyeongju. Although pine trees can be seen anywhere in Korea and a pine grove is a landscape familiar to the Koreans, these photographs are more than visual records of a typical images of the nature in Korea. The architecture of Jongmyo (the ancestral shrine of the royal family), which he photographed before, is a work of formative art itself, while a pine grove or a landscape and nature in general, always exists chaos. When a photographer triggers a camera at nature, he will automatically record an as-pect of the chaos. Whether the photograph is deserving of the name of art is another question. Taking an artistic photograph would need an eye to decipher an artistic form in the middle of the chaos. A photograph as a work of art would give some formation to the chaos, while a photograph in the usual meaning just clips an aspect of the chaos in a photographic frame. In the photographs of BAE Bien-U, the pine grove is not taken simply as a landscape, that is, a part of the nature. You would feel as if the trees or the grove, given a clear formation by the photographer, was coming out of the landscape and approaching you directly. Such an impression on his works tells you that they should be called artistic rather than photographic. - Text by Shigeo CHIBA
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