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Made of Layers: Korean contemporary art
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Published: July 08 2009

Kim Siyeon, Courtesy of FOIL GALLERY copy right(c) Kim Siyeon

Kwon Doohyoun, Courtesy of FOIL GALLERY copy right(c) Kwon Doohyoun

Choi Sunghun + Park Sunmin, Courtesy of FOIL GALLERY copy right(c) Choi Sunghun + Park Sunmin

FOIL GALLERY is pleased to present Made of Layers, a group exhibition of Korean contemporary art, from 17th July untill 8th August, co-organized with Gallery FACTORY, Seoul, inviting a guest curator, Kim Inseon, who has successively curated shows for major museums and Biennials in Korea, such as the Daelim Museum and Busan Biennial 2006.

The four Korean contemporary artists/group in this exhibition Made of Layers hold their own formal and contextual layers in art making praxis.

Particularly, the original role of photography and moving pictures showed in this exhibition will not be defined in a traditional way. “Recording” has already been incorporated into the act of drawing that of making, and the next step of “how to reveal” is at stake.

In case of Kim Siyeon, for example, the artist expresses her intention through installation, however, what remain for us are photographic images, taken by the third person.The imageries present depression, self-defense, and the realm of personal imagination. They are a kind of defense system installed layer upon layer, but the fact that they are made of fragile materials suggests dual mechanism.

Kwon Doohyoun has a system of identifyig his works with numbers or using specific materials for a specific year. Using images which are intentionally shaken and layered, and including intentional marks or stains formed on the surface of the work in images, he attempts to create layers of time. These acts transform his works so that they take a characteristic of painting that cannot simply be defined as photography.

Shin Kiwoun puts repetitive acts of grinding objects in moving pictures. The objects used in work are electronic devises, clocks, and figures of characters like Astro Boy, Superman. Objects favored by youths of the modern age are destroyed and disappear in front of your eyes, and this is the reality you face when the piled layers are being removed.

Choi Sunghun + Park Sunmin take surroundings around them and dailiness of objects with the “not-everyday” gaze. The role and position, or the size and shape of the motifs they shoot are presented in a totally different image and meaning by the eye angle and position of the artists. Their participation in a magazine also puts their art in layers. Their work extends the original categories of art such as installation and photography and at the same time extends the spectrum of audience who accepts art.

Each art piece in this exhibtion works as a layer that constitutes space and context. In the meantime, audiences present diverse emotionl layers which tend to differ depending upon their personal situation, social stance, and sensibility. Corresponded with Cubism of early 20th Century, or “theory of relativity” by Albert Einstein: As each viewer’s personal background and taste differs, the contents or concepts of artworks change instantly and continually; the relative perception or interpretation by different viewers with diverse perspectives subsequently gransts artworks an infinite changeability and possibility.

Intertwined with spatial and sociocultural layers of FOIL GALLERY, this exhibition intends to highlight those layers surrounding artworks and to read ever-changing meanings among the multihold layers of different artworks.

* The text was provided by FOIL GALLERY.


Period: 2009-7-17 - 2009-8-8
Venue: FOIL GALLERY

Last Updated on July 17 2009
 

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