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Email PageYoung Korean Contemporary Artists
May 29, 2008- July 26, 2008
Reception: May 29, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sung-Ha Ahn, Sung-Wook Do, Dong-Jae Lee, Hwan-Kwon Yi, Seung Woo Back, Nam Pyo Kim, Ji-Hyun Park
Gana Art
568 W 25th StMay 20, 2008 – New York: Gana Art announces an exhibition of work by young Korean artists, on view in their recently opened New York gallery from May 29 – July 26, 2008. This will be the first New York exhibition for the 7 artists in the show. Works on view include mixed-media on canvas, sculpture, photography, and painting.
Lee Dong-Jae: Gluing buttons, beans, rice, and other small objects to painted canvases, Lee creates pixilated images of iconic figures, such as Queen Elizabeth and Mao Zedong. Works recall both Pointillism as well as Pop Art traditions, and juxtapose the staples of everyday life with celebrity and fame.
Yi Whan-Kwon: Stretched and elongated sculptures are modeled after digitally altered photographs that portray distorted figures as they would appear on a wide-screen TV. The artist uses Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic, giving the sculptures both a malleable and a strong quality. Sculpted portraits create optical illusions that offer an exploration of the time-space continuum, and the divergences between two and three-dimensional planes.
Back Seung-Woo: Photographs are shot at Aiinsworld amusement park in Seoul where Western landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Mount Rushmore are modeled at 1/25 of their actual size. The artist photographs these amusement park miniatures against the real skyline of Seoul, setting fantasies about the Western world against the realities of Korean daily life.
Kim Nam-Pyo: Fantastical scenes are portrayed, in which objects and settings from varying times and places co-exist; trees grow from the water’s surface and a zebra stands inside a high-heeled shoe. Relying on charcoal and a variety of unusual materials, such as artificial fur, works are Surrealist in style and are imbued with an Eastern sensibility.
Ahn Sung-Ha: Oil paintings portray polished images of everyday indulgences like cigarettes and candy to explore the dualism of good and bad. Using many carefully applied layers and blurring techniques, Ahn refers to the popularity of hyperrealism and pop art in Korea, critiquing the rushed production of art during market booms.
Do Sung-Wook: Paintings from the artist’s imagination portray idealistic visions of damp and lush forests. Focused on the effects of light as it shines through trees or reflects on water, works are impressionistic in style and capture Eastern philosophical notions of the physical versus the spiritual.
Park Ji-Hyun: Sculptures made of thousands of gold-dusted incense sticks and coils make up one series. In a separate series, Park uses burning sticks of incense to puncture hundreds of tiny holes through rice paper overlaid on canvas.
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