London Mokspace
25th Jan – 7 Feb 2012
Oriental VisArt is pleased to present “Between Tiers”, the first London exhibition for both Korean artist Wook Heo and Oriental VisArt.
The solo exhibition will be open from January 25th to February 9th 2012 with a private reception with the artist 27th January, from 6 to 9pm.
Between Tiers is Heo’s extension from a series of work featured at The Space Between, a group exhibition presented in March 2011 in Geneva. The emerging artist expands his subject matter including not only fragmented cars, interiors and material related to consumerism, but highly eroticised imagery of men and women. His nudes, however, are rendered as object of desire similar to the consumer goods depicted among the works. The exhibition deals with contemporary convergence and divergence of culture, a theme which does not come as a surprise from the Korean artist trained in Paris.
Heo reintroduces the technique of disassembled painted media, which is reconvened to create unique works that are neither paintings nor reliefs. The meaning of the subject matter is altered in the reassembling process to form a multi-layered colour block kaleidoscopic vision.
Born in Seoul in 1973, Heo completed his studies in at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, specialising in painting, drawing, architecture and multi-media in 1998. From 2001, he featured in numerous groups and solo exhibitions in Korea, but 2011 was his breakthrough in the European art scene with the group exhibition presented by Oriental VisArt. This solo London exhibition is a first for Wook Heo, who has previously featured in our Artist of the month February 2011 blog.
It is our pleasure to present you this event among London’s cosmopolitan stage.
