Oriental VisArt will select an Artist of the Month among talented young Asian Artists so that you can get to know the Artist in depth. We will introuduce not only his/her profile or work images but also his/her philosophy of work.
We hope to deepen and widen our knowlege in Art and increase our artistic sensitivity with our audiences.
Artist of July 2011: Kim Hye Young
Kim Hye Young was born in 1980 in Seoul, Korea. There she earned her B.F.A in Fine-art from Korean National University of Arts in her hometown of Seoul, Korea. Later, she earned her M.A in Fine-art from the same university. Kim Hye Young currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany, where since 2010 has been studying History and culture of science and technology (M.A) at Technische Universitaet, as well as studying Painting in the class of Prof. Held, as a guest student at Berlin University of the Arts (Udk). She is specialised in Painting. Her work has been exhibited at:
| Solo Exhibition | ||
| 2006 | Dreamer | Space Haam, Seoul, Korea |
| Timid Joke | Alternative Space HUE, Seoul, Korea | |
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2008 | Double Take | Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris ,France |
| 2007 | Double Take | KNUA Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| Drawing to Drawing | SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea | |
| One two Punch | YeeMock Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
| Drawing open- end | KNUA Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
| Two Person Show | 175 GalleryElevator Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
Kim Hye Young has this to say about Art:
“For me it is important how I concentrate on things and mood, and how I treat the juxtaposition between concrete terms and spontaneous feeling.
In a way, my painting is very prompt and extrasensory. Specifically this way of painting is completed by focusing on the moment I catch and by expanding the detailed parts into larger corpus rather than by simply investing in deductive schemes. This method brings out an unexpected outcome into the picture.”
Please enjoy some of Kim Hye Young’s work images!
"Airfield ( Helsingki )", acrylic on canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2010
"Hochzeit (a wedding)", acrylic on canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2009
"Airfield (Berlin-Tempelhof)", acrylic on canvas, 180 x 140 cm, 2010
"Piazza San Marco", acrylic on canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2010
Artist of June 2011: Kamath Manjunath
Indian Artist Manjunath Kamath was born in 1972 in Mangalore, India. Kamath currently lives and works in New Delhi, India, and specialises in sculpture. In 1994, he earned a B.F.A. from Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts, in Mysore, India. In 2002, he spent time as an Artist in Residence at the School of Art and Design, Universitz of Wales Institute, in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Kamath’s works have been shown all over Asia, including:
| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 (upcoming) | Solo Show | Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India |
| 2008 | 108 Small Stories | Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India |
| 2006 | Something Happened | Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India |
| 1996 | About Something | Shridarani Gallery, New Delhi, India |
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | Roots | Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India |
| 2009 | Marvelous Reality | Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India |
| Retrieval Systems | Art Allive Gallery, New Delhi, India | |
| Reclaim / Recite / Recycle | Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi; Bose-Pacia, Kolkata, India | |
| Human Animal | Thresehold Gallery, New Delhi, India | |
| ARCO | Art Fair, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2008 | Chaos in Order | 29, Hang Bai, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Keep Drawing | Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India | |
| The Ethics of Encounter | Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| INDIAVATA | Sun Contemporary Ar20t”, Korea | |
Kamath says,
“My works are inspired by the day to day life spend by any individual who is observant of things going around. I am a capturer of the immediate in painterly images. Taking cues from the conversations with friends, relatives, street smart guys, fashion aficionados, art lovers, story tellers, children, myth makers, journalists, art critics and so on, I try to go beyond the face value of the words uttered and the mental images created. I look at the possibilities of the unsaid and chances of the unrevealed in my works. So they are always mysterious and playful. The images that I choose to paint are simple. Like in the fables and parables there are so many animals and birds in my works. Sometimes they come as they are, at times they are composite figures and most of the times these characters are seen in conversation (silently or imaginatively) with the human figures in the pictorial surface. I try to create simple but thoughtful narrative by painting quirky situations. And most of my paintings are minimal in one or the other way. I use flat surfaces as background using luminous acrylic colors and the images are placed in suggestive ways that at times create an interesting balance between the background and the intended narrative elements.
As I have been working as a designer, the designer’s precision comes into most of my works. I do not find it as a problem, on the contrary I find the precision gives the minimal language the required sharpness and it imparts clarity to the simple narratives that I make.
My world view is quite humorous. I would like to laugh at things and through this laughter I could get into the unrevealed sides of events. This is the same attitude that I take in my video works. I create imaginary situations as in the fables and parables, through claymation models. They create one kind of narrative and leave it open for the viewers interventions. This is the same method that I use in my small scale works and drawings.”
Please enjoy some samples of work images!
"Second Hand Car Goes to Heaven", automative paint on fiberglass, variable size, 2009
"Some Who Quoted More Than 100 Books in His Talk", acrylic on canvas, 72 x 96 in
"Vishnu Villas", fiberglass, wood, TV monitor and video (on loop), 180 x 60 x 72 in, 2008
"How Come He Is Here?", digital print on archival paper, 52 x 80 in, 3 + 2 AP, 2009
Artist of May 2011: Hyungji Park
Hyungji Park was born in Seoul, Korea in 1977. In 2001, she earned her B.F.A. in Fine Art from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea. In 2006 she earned an M.F.A. in Fine Art from Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, Korea. Hyungji also studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK, where she is currently living and working today. She specialises in Painting. In 2010, she received a Visual arts grant from the International Exchange of Arts and Culture Arts Council in Korea. She will debut her works for the first time in Switzerland with Oriental VisArt at her upcoming solo exhibition Neon Plants, Night Lights and Travel to the Galaxy which begins 23 May 2011. The exhibition will run at Nest Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, for two weeks. We look forward to seeing you there! Her other exhibitions include
| Solo Exhibition | ||
| 2010 | Fake Tales From Somewhere | Harrington Mill Studios, Nottingham, UK, |
| Strange Scenery | Nordisk Kunst Plattform Project Space, Brusand, Norway | |
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | Guasch Coranty International Panting Prize 2010 | The Center of Art Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain |
| 4482[Sasapari] Korean contemporary Artists in London | Bargehouse, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Raymond Gun: Platfrom | DegreeArt.com Gallery, London, UK |
| Time, Time, Time | Terrace Studios, London, UK | |
| Drawn In | Sidcot Arts Centre, North Somerset, UK | |
| Flash Company | Cecil Sharp House, London, UK | |
| Private Practice 2 | DegreeArt.com Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2008 | The Tomorrow People: Artists of the Future Now 2008 | Elevator Gallery, London, UK |
| Private Practice 1 | Chinese Characters Contemporary Art Space, Budapest, Hungary | |
| 4482 | Bargehouse, London, UK | |
| 2006 | Like Something (Duo Show) | 175 Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
Elizabeth Croft at Nordisk kunst Plattform had this to say about Hyungji Park:
Hyungji Park’s painting practice playfully creates surreal landscapes and scenes by combining visual references and painting styles. Born in Korea, and now living and working in London, Park extracts, dissects and collages together visual references from popular culture and art history to create strange new scenes.
Snapshots, images from the internet, magazines and advertisements, are chosen and re-presented, displaced from their original contexts and mixed with more conventional painting motifs, such as Japanese prints of seascapes. Individual components are picked out of their context, re-contextualized, mixed with other images, and developed to form new surrealistic scenes.
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In her more recent work, Park has focused more on exploring ways of interpreting in paint, the different aesthetic qualities and visual grammars found in printed comics, graphic design and old wood-cut prints. Each source image is reinterpreted through a particular handling of the paint. Whilst one element may be depicted through a dripping, watery application of paint, others are reproduced in finely finished detail. The lines, forms and colours from the source material are transformed via different painting techniques so that the original sources are reframed as something else, no longer delivering their original function. Instead they deliver multiple fantasies, through the combination of surreal imagery and the painting medium.
Park’s way of working approaches painting as a physical medium as well as a visual one, and she continues to search for ways that allow her play with this tension between materials and imagery.
Please enjoy some of her work images!
"Dürer in Hokusai", oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 x 140 cm (left), 140 x 100 cm (right), 2009
Bubble Castle, Acrylic on linen, 95x130cm, 2011
"Fake Tales from Somewhere 2", oil on canvas, 160x130cm, 2010
What happened is unknown, but …is crystal clear 2", oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm, 2010
Artist of April 2011: Ayoung Kim
Ayoung Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1979. Currently living in and working in London, Ayoung specialises in Photography and New Media. She received a B.A. in Visual Communication Design at Kookmin University in Seoul in 2002, as well as another B.A. (Honours) in Photography at London College of Communication. In 2010, she earned her M.A. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Ayoung is about to begin a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (Supported by Arts Council Korea). She will also be a part of Oriental VisArt’s upcoming group exhibition, Displaced Realities in Geneva in April. Her works have been shown all over the globe since 2006, and some of her most recent exhibitions include:
| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | Minima Memoria | Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, UK |
| 2009 | A Delegation | Window Gallery at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea |
| Ephemera | I-Myu Projects, London, UK | |
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | Summer Exhibition 2010 | Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
| Window Vol.2 (Upcoming) |
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea | |
| Hi, Mr. Lonely | Gana Contemporary and Gana Art Busan, Seoul and Busan, Korea | |
| 4482 Contemporary Korean Artists in London | Bargehouse, London, UK | |
| Osannolik Digital Festival | Kulturnatten, Växjö, Sweden | |
| Ways of Seeing (Part II) | I-Myu Projects, London, UK | |
| 2009 | 2009 Seoul International Photography Festival | Garden 5, Seoul, Korea |
| Korea Tomorrow | SETEC, Seoul, Korea | |
| Salon09 | Four Corners Film, London, UK | |
| Aim High: Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Awarded Artists Show | Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea | |
| Korean Eye: Moon Generation | Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | |
| The Cinematic-Montage | Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| The Irony | Kimi Art, Seoul, Korea | |
Review of Kim’s Minima Memoria
Street Level Photoworks (2010) http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/
In Minima Memoria the artist has created a series of photographic and video works based around headlines in newspapers describing serious crimes, suicides, unusual incidents and disasters. From these headlines, she re-imagines and recreates the scenes as 3 dimensional photo-montages to bring a fresh and new perspective to the story. The artist has described the photographs as representing various fleeting and ephemeral events that happen in the world, being transformed into representations in news media.
‘(Kim) deconstructs and reconstructs a world of images to explore her own place within it… Her dizzying angular perspectives provide sets for staging herself, a character dislocated and displaced, finding echoes of her own experience in disasters that happened just around the corner, or to girls whose experience as students abroad mirrors her own (until the moment they disappeared). Meaning emerges from Kim’s fearless examination of the meaninglessness of these small catastrophes. She cannot unlock the mystery of Alexander Litvinenko’s death or an anonymous city suicide; the construction of each dense delirious image is an opportunity for the artist to project herself imaginatively into a scenario, to probe its poetic and metaphorical possibilities… Ayoung Kim restages the crime with the cool logic of the detective and the gruesome fascination of the voyeur. Her cutting and pasting takes place in three dimensional space, yielding impossible spaces for the eye to penetrate. In the process of montage some of the original meaning of the images is lost, and other meanings accrue.’
She says,
“‘It happens that the stage-sets collapse.’ – Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus, 1955)
These photographs represents various events happened recently in the world or the traces or ambiences of after-the-accidents. I transform them into the stage sets/models I created. Researching of each tragic story, I take pictures from my environment and the actual scene of accident/crime, then alter the images and move them into stage sets according to each context of event.
The reality effect from built-up photographs exists only through camera with proper angle and composition and eventually in the final image, as the stage sets are temporary construction. These can be 3-dimensional photo montages or just stage-sets. Also, these are Ephemera (Items of short-lived duration, use, or interest) of Ephemera (a short-lived thing). Most of the title of each photograph is referring news headline, however, recent pieces have seemingly abstract titles as the work gradually became autonomous rather than dutifully following the narrative line.”
Please enjoy images of Ayoung’s works!
“Crop of Dope to Help My Kids, 26 May, 2008”, digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm, 2009
"Man Hits Bus Roof after 70Ft Death Plunge, 29 May, 2007", digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2007~8
"A Delegation 3", digital c-type print, 100x80cm (5+2AP), 2009
“CCTV Captures Death Chase, 19 July 2007”, digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2008
"Chaos Caused by Monster of Blitz, 15 May, 2007", digital c-type print, 160 x 120 cm (Edition 3+2AP) / 100 x 76 cm (Edition 5+2AP), 2007
Artist of March 2011: Ma Hongjie
Ma Hongjie is also the recipient of many awards, including:
| 2003 | Tthe Contest of People Photography Newspaper Office, Silver award |
| 2002 | Henan Province Young Photographer, Nomination award |
| 2001 | The Contest of People Photography Newspaper Office, The third prize |
| 2000 | Millennium Hong Kong China Travel Photography Contest, Gold award |
Author Melanie Ouyang Lum wrote about Ma Hongjie’s work, saying:
“At a time where China is rapidly modernizing and becoming a world power we always forget that the urbanization of China is contained within only a few of its large cities. A good 80% of the country is untouched by the economic advances. The people who inhabit these places still live like they have for generations. Ma Hongjie is the only artist that has this unique opportunity to visit these barren and far reaching places. His photographic style captures the beauty in the simplicity of these people’s lives.”
Ma Hongjie‘s Artist philosophy is as follows:
“Artist statement: Since I work in a Natural Geographic Magazine as a photographer and editor I have a lot of opportunities to photograph places that people will never have access to. In China, people’s lives dramatically differ according to where they are geographically located. One famous Chinese saying is “Yi Fang Shui Tu Yang Yi Fang Ren” which means different places cultivate different people. China’s land is so vast, there are deserts, tropical climates, rivers, mountains, etc. The lives in these different places are unlike each other, the rich and the poor, the plateau and the water habitats, draught and rainforest. Therefore I pay attention to how these people inhabit their environments and how these environments mold these people’s lives.”
Location: Mangjiuxin stockade of Haidong Village in Menglian County, Yunnan, Date: at 10pm, 25th February, 2007
Location: The Nansha Islands, Date: 20th May in 2010
Location: Chen Baer Huqi Ba Village in Hulunbeier grasslands in Inner Mongolia, Date: at 3pm, 19th August in 2007
Location: Taihang Mountain in He Bei Province, 2007
Artist of February 2011: Heo Wook
Heo Wook was born in 1973 in Paju, Korea. He is currently living and working in Seoul, Korea, and specialises in painting-drawing, architecture, and multi-media. In 1998 he earned a D.N.S.A.P from Ecole des Beaux-Art de Paris. Heo Wook will be featured in Oriental VisArt’s group exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland in March. This will be his first exhibition in Europe. His other exhibitions include:
Solo Exhibitions
2010
ART2021, Seoul, Korea
OPENSTUDIO 21, Seoul, Korea
2009
LVS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
NAMPO ART Museum, Jeonnam, Korea
OPENSTUDIO 21, Seoul, Korea
2008
Gallery K. Seoul, Korea
Gallery H. Seoul, Korea
Blank Space Gallery, Australia, Sydney
2007
Gallery LM. Seoul, Korea
Hyundal Department Store. Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2010
SOAP- Seoul Open Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
New Year’s greetings 2010, Gallery K. Seoul. Korea
2009
Asian Modern and Contemporary Art, Singapore
Asia Hope Network Project, Keumsan Gallery, Paju, Korea
TWO+, Gallery Eve, Seoul, Korea
A part of me, Gallery Eve, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Motor Show, Space HAAM, Seoul, Korea
2008
KIAF- Korea internationl Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
SOAF- Seoul Open Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
Artist’s garden- Child’ garden, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea
2007
Songzhuang International Art Fesitival, Project, Beijing, China
Mokdong Outlet of Hyundal Department Store, Seoul, Korea
<Falling in Fall>, Sinsegyae Department Store. Seoul, Korea
<New Type Contemporary Museum in School>, Myeongji Foreign Language High School. Gyeogido Ulwang
POSCO Steel Art, POSCO, Seoul, Korea
<POP & CON MIX>, Young-Un Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggido Gwangju, Korea
Old Jeonnam provincial office, Uijae Art Studio, Jaonnam Gwangju, Korea
KIAF- Korea internationl Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
He says,
‘Between Tiers’ does not simply refer to the space between layers of an object. It refers to the space between processes of effectuation and restoration, such as from line – space, frame – panel, cloth – paint, material – color, spirituality – substance and action – reaction, etc. Also, I took into consideration the instantaneous works on modified frame and restoration into screen. From the perspective that this process of responding with these objects and with the space in which such responses take place is the most important ‘between’ in my work, ‘Between Tiers’ not only holds the significance as a process of surpassing boundaries, but also is to re-disperse, re-analyze and re-organize the more primitive and fundamental work processes at the same time. Therefore, it refers to the in-between space where the concept for the process of partial joining of objects coexist by producing repetition – difference. What I observe and intuit is not the completed image, but the in-between space of tiers.
Please enjoy his work images:
‘Cars 67’, Mixed media, 81x 122 cm, 2010
‘Cars 675’ Mixed media, 122x 100cm, 2010
‘Cola’, Mixed media, 122 x 163 cm, 2010
Artist of January 2011: Chinwook Kim
Chinwook Kim was born in 1972 in Eumsung, Korea. He earned his B.F.A. in Oriental Painting from Hansung University, Seoul, Korea in 1997; a B.F.A. in Painting from Stuttgart National Art School in Germany in 2003; a M.F.A. in Painting from Stuttgart National Art School in Germany in 2006; and his M.F.A in Painting, from Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, in 2010. He is currently living and working in London where he specialises in painting. Chinwook’s most recent show was Oriental Visart’s Threshold to everyday-life in 2010, as well as:
Solo Exhibition
2003
“Hi Art” Metzingen, Germany
Group Exhibition
2010
“Threshold to everyday-life” Oriental VisArt, Geneva, Switzerland
“thirst” Beldham Gallery, Middlesex, U.K.
“4482″ Bargehouse, London, U.K.
2009
“Anger Management” Will Alsop Studio, London, U.K.
2006
“Marianne and Friends” Gallery Weissraum, Kyoto, Japan
“Die Zukunft als bildnerische Vision” Sparkasse, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Frueh bluete” Stuttgart, Germany
Chinwook says,
I attempt an expansion to another unfamiliar space in ever-changing daily life. I insert an image I discovered in a familiar place in another space, randomly, and endeavor an attempt to excavate another aspect buried between image and image, space and space, through new assumptions and suppositions. This is much like an attempt to create another world, (an unconscious world that cannot accurately or theoretically be elucidated, but is obviously existent), by drawing out another reality under the surface of reality, and by presenting another passageway in reality made up of similar landscapes. This awkward scene seems like an unfamiliar bridge linking reality and unreality, but alters to a familiar appearance through a repetition of discovery and excavation. I wish this scene could be reinterpreted as another space where I can communicate with others.
The images, made through direct or indirect experience, appear through a process of deformation, repetition, combination, and abbreviation. These images return to their original appearance in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space, or are modified into degraded unfamiliar appearances. The expansion and distortion of artificial thinking spreads to an unpredictable sphere, disregarding the distinction of space and things. The objects associated with one another, through unconscious assumptions and suppositions, represent an innerscape, through coarse, simplified hieroglyphs, as clues to another world, likely to be somewhere between the conscious and unconscious.
Please enjoy some images of his works!
‘The value of isolated island’, mixed media, 130 x 60 x 50 cm, 2010
‘Inside and outside of landscape-1′, charcoal, acrylic on paper, 225 x 235 cm, 2008
‘Inside and outside of landscape-4′, Chinese ink on canvas, 152 x 122 cm, 2009
Artist of December 2010: Selvaraj Kumaresan
Selvaraj Kumaresan was born in 1983 in Chennai, India, where he currently is living and working today. He received a B.F.A. in painting from Govt College of Fine Arts in Chennai, India in 2005. His works have been featured in many shows in India, and he debuted internationally in 2010 at Oriental VisArt’s Threshold to everyday-life group exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland.
2010
“Threshold to every-day life” Oriental VisArt, Geneva, Switzerland
2009
“Integrating The Times” Gallery Blue Spade, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
“Madras Canvas” Forum Art Gallery, Chennai, India
“Kinetics” Chitrakala Parishadh, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2008
“Between the Lines” India
“Madras Canvas” Forum Art Gallery, Chennai, India
“One Man Show” Apparao Art Gallery, Delhi, India
“The South Show” Apparao Art Gallery, Delhi, India
2007
“Kinetics” Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India
“The Spice of Life in Uppal Orchid” Apparo Gallery, New Delhi
“Scrapes” Triveni Garden Theatre in association with Apparao Gallery, New Delhi
He says,
“Perception is the source for works, to transform the perceptions in to work of art, go myself into confusion, analysis, references, and get in to talks to furnish it.
The forms told and to tell in works leave thoughts for reconsidering .Evolution is not forbidden in execution .To tell my negative space I need a positive space and vice versa. Without getting in to the margin of mediums exploring new spaces and materials is a great innovation which leads experimentation.
As perceiving being the shadow of mine, obviously thoughts overlaps and many disappears in the layer formed. This intended me to work on thoughts perceived. While drowned in thoughts, perception helps me out to get out of it with a hand full of good visuals.”
Please enjoy his work images!!
“Light to Dark”, serigraph on paper, 22 x 30 in, 2009
“Secrets Stuffed”, carry bags, 36 x 36 in, 2008
Artist of November 2010: Can Kang
Can Kang was born in 1982 in Chongqing, China and he is currently living in working in Beijing, China. He was given his B.F.A. in oil painting from Sichuan Fine Arts Institutes, Sichuan, China, 2006. He has shown his work globally as below;
2009
Personal Exhibition of Kang Can, Chongqing Library, China,
“New Art In Japan” 35th AJAC, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
“China’s situation” Huangjueping Arts Festival Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 501 Museum of Contemporary Art, China
“Each word,” the first western contemporary art exhibitions, Cheung Museum of Contemporary Art, Huangjueping Art Museum, China
35 session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum AJAC Chinese Artists Exhibition Tour Exhibition, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2008
AIAA 2008, Asia World Expo, Hong Kong
Decouvertes: Retour de Chine, Paris, France
KITAI VPERIOD” “CHINA FORWARD!!!, Moscow, Russia
Exhibition on Chinese Painting, Museo Della Permanente Museum, Milan, Italy
Art Bridge of Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami, USA
The First Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival: “The Origin”, Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Hand in Hand, Making Quake Small” Artwork Sale to Benefit Sichuan Earthquake Charity, Shanghai 800 Art District, China
2007
Art Exhibition of Bari, Italy, Bari, Italy
Contemporary Art Exhibition of “Later After Time”, Chongqing, China
Contemporary Art Exhibition of “Chinese Walls”, Amsterdam, Holland
Contemporary Art Exhibition of “Variety”, Tank Loft – Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China
He says,
Alongside the rapid development of urbanisation and globalisation, the changes China has witnessed in its own process of internationalisation have come at a particularly stunning pace. In this fast developing post-industrial age, we, surrounded by superfluous information and images, are becoming callous and fatigued, left with no choice but bewilderment, and left dubious of our surrounding realities.
It is due to this very sense of doubt that we stumble upon a sensitive point of excitement, prompting us to seek inspiration in this fanatical age of consumption.
Babies, the symbol of human purity, enter the world simple and unadulterated. When juxtaposed with prototypically contemporary symbols in a certain fragment of surreal narration, they may create a breakthrough in the preexisting notions of these symbols, thus creating a brand new meaning.
Infants are all self-oriented, vigorous, and never relate to ordeal or difficulties. Through them I see eternity of life. And that urges me to choose infant. Nevertheless, all infants in my paints are lonely, which reflect my feeling in both physical and spiritual conditions. Restrained, somber, painful, lost… those infants are vagrants under a civilized world and they never get to understand such world. Though abandoned, the infants never give in to the world. They despise what the world admires.
Infants can not understand the civilised world, and the adults never know what infants are thinking about. In their minds, ethic, courtesy, golf, tie, relationship, and job and so on are the priorities, and thus they devote themselves into those matters. By contrast, infants never understand why all these have to do with life itself. Just like Saint-Exupery says: “if you tell the adults ‘I see a beautiful house with red bricks and geranium by the window, and the pigeons are resting on the top of it…’ they could hardly imagine the house. You have to describe like this: ‘I see a house costs one hundred thousand francs.’ Then they will immediately tell you how beautiful it is.”
Apparently, life becomes vague today. Wake up, working, having meals, sleeping, get up, working… we change life into a certain pattern and bear it. Infants and series of objects represent the confrontation of purity of life and ugliness of desire, reflecting the ridiculous state of human.
But I never mean to create a new personality in my works. All I try to express and depict is the sensation and understanding of my personal life experience.
Enjoy his work images!!
‘Dolphin bay dream’, oil on canvas, 50 cm (diameter), 2010
‘I and a shark in the game’, oil on canvas, 50 cm (diameter), 2010
’7 up’, oil on canvas, 90 x 80 cm, 2008
Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2008
Artist of October 2010: Heena Kim
Heena Kim was born in Kimcheon, Korea and she is currently living and working in London, UK. She was given a M.F.A from the Central Saint Martins of Art and Design, University of Arts London, UK in 2008, and another M.F.A. in Oil Painting from Hongik University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea in 2005. She got a B.F.A. in Oil Painting from the same university, Seoul, Korea in 2002.
She had her solo show ‘The Weirdest Place’ in 2004 at the ‘Samsung Raemian Cultural Centre’, Seoul, Korea and now preparing for the upcoming solo exhibition titled ‘Visible vs. Invisible’ at Oriental VisArt, Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition runs from Tuesday 26 October until Saturday 6 November 2010. The opening reception is on Thursday 28 October 2010.
She has participated in various group shows as below;
2010
‘Resort’ (The residence gallery, London, UK)
‘Way of Seeing’ (I-Myu Projects, London, UK)
2009
‘The Sneeze Art Flair’ (Westbourne Studios, London, UK)
‘Platform’ (DegreeArt.com, London, UK)
‘The Tomorrow People’ (Elevator Gallery, London, UK)
‘Inside Out’ (The Fire Station Gallery, Windsor, UK)
’20/21 International Art Fair’ (Royal College of Art, London, UK)
‘Overview’ (Elysium Artspace, Swansea, Wales, UK)
2008
‘Entry Forms’ (Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK)
‘System & Patterns 2′ (Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK)
‘CSM Interim Show’ (Barge House, London, UK)
She says,
“Memory operates to push me into an unusual world unlike the state in which I am living, but there is no doubt that the memory has important moments of my experiences in the past because I remember the moment, either it’s short or long, even though it happened a long time ago. Generally, memory is built up by intense shocks or emotions and sometimes linked with present occasions, and the form of memory is distorted and out of facts, but the transformed memories brings about unbelievable effects in the present. In my case, this connection works in my work to create ‘Pink Human’ and to make stories with.
Basically, I make stories with Pink Human transformed. For instance, the human bodies are caught by a spider’s web and insects or animals infiltrate into the human body. Nails penetrate into the weird-formed human body dismantled or transformed and arms and limbs are cut off. These brutal scenes resemble the violence of our real life. Therefore, my stories can be read as the acknowledgement and manifestation of the fact that there are jealous, hatred, detestable and violent emotions in our mind. This represents my self-conscious broken by incomplete and unimpaired mirror images and reflects manifold subjects or spirit which inscribes trauma and are excluded by others as abnormal. Therefore, I call the story in my work ‘Pure voice of the inner life’. Pure voice of the inner life which revives the excluded and renounced, correspond to the realization of the shadow excluded by the past experience overlapped with the present.
The word ‘practice’ is clearly defined as ‘play’ in my work. The word ‘play’ is used for children’s acts in many ways because play does not mean ‘doing something seriously’ or ‘doing logically with intelligent knowledge’ and also is close to nature which adults could often miss. Therefore, play is the more believable evidence of symbolic thought in the child, but it is not identical with it because we need to examine the unconscious symbols in order to complete the picture of the mental image”.
Enjoy her work images!
‘A peaceful town in Telena’, 120cm x 95cm, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 2010
‘Visible vs. Invisible’, 60cm x 60cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2010
‘Hard choice with the stairs’, 102cm x 76cm, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 2010
‘Memory of the house’, 100cm x 100cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2010
Artist of September 2010: Gunwoo Shin
Gunwoo Shin was born in 1978 in Seoul, Korea and he currently lives and works in London, UK. He was given a M.F.A. in Sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK in 2009 and another M.F.A. in Sculpture from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 2006. He got a B.F.A at the same university in 2003. He got an award from ‘London Securities Award’ last year and was given a studio for a year in the central London.
He has shown his work globally as below;
2010 ’London Securities’, The SW! Gallery, London, UK
‘Way of seeing’, I-Myu Project Space’, London, UK
2009 ’Defamiliarisation’, Nilias Geallery, London, UK
‘Cross-fields’, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
‘Degree Show’, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2008 ‘The 38th Pararell’, G-Spot Show Room, London, UK
’4482′, Barge House, London, UK
2006 ’The 1st Solo Show’, Kwnhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘EHS Project’, Sejong Culture Centre, Seoul, Korea
He Says,
“Based on specific incidents and situations in reality my work portrays mental landscapes on the crossroad between the conscious and the unconscious like in memories or in dreams. I primarily rely on feelings and thoughts that occur in the process of living my day-to-day life by trying to awake my senses that have been dulled by everyday mundane routines. I also freely move beyond the lines of reality and the world of the surreal, giving diverse artistic imaginations to realistic subject matter. I discover and renew my understanding of ‘myself’ by collecting, modifying and presenting differently perceived narratives, going beyond the lines of myself and others. The objects to which my imagination brings life present an expanded alternative, moving beyond boundaries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces”.
He is curating the 1st Group Exhibition of Oriental VisArt this month in Geneva, Switzerland (27 Sept – 10 Oct 2010) and participating in the show with his new series. Enjoy his work images!
‘Untitled’, Acrylic on resin on wooden board, 100 x 125 x 20cm, 2010
“Landscape Myth”, enamel paint on resin on aluminium, 160 x 60 x 5 cm, 2009
“Orange Plastic Bag”, acrylic on resin on board, 190 x 120 x 13 cm, 2009
“Triumph of boundarylessness I”, acrylic on resin on wooden board, 75 x 120 x 10 cm, 2009
Artist of August 2010: Ju Young Park
Ju Young Park was born in 1977 in Keo Jin, Korea and she now lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She studied at the Université Paris 8, Paris, France 2002 – 2007 and was given her masters. She was given her B.F.A. in Painting, from Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea, 2000.
Solo exhibitions
2010 ’Wrap Your Troubles in Dream’, Alternative Space Artforum Rhee, Bucheon, Korea
2007/ 2008 ’High & Dry’, IMART Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 ’My Place’, Anaїm, Paris, France
Selected group exhibitions
2009/ 2010 ’The Soul Travels at the Pace of a Camel’, IMART Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 ’About Lightness’, Inchon Arthall Gallery, Ichon, Korea
2003 ’Femmes d’images, Images de Femmes’, Timisoara, Roumania
She says,
I like drawing fast with rather simple materials. I think I can focus on and enjoy my working in such way.
In my works, ‘movement’ is important like in poems or music, which, of course, does not mean the performance of the movement itself. You can see this explanation as ironic, because my paintings look quiet and tranquil. However, I can feel a kind of ‘tremble’ even in the static image on a plane. As vibration of air makes beautiful music, I wish my paintings have that kind of ‘tremble’. Subject matters for drawing are various, because I want to interpret various trembles which I absorbed in my own way. That is my own way of balancing existence in other words. I have lots of poems and stories and I have lots of scenery and music. So what could I do? I would draw paintings.
Enjoy her work images!
“Dead Cormorant”, watercolour on paper, 51 x 36 cm, 2007
“The Eyes”, watercolor on paper, 15.5 x 15.3 cm (60 pieces), 2007
Artist of July 2010: Imran Ahmad Khan
Imran Ahmad Khan was born in 1974, Lahore, Pakistan and he is currently living and working there. He is a self-taught Artists and specialised in sculpture. He had a solo show called ‘Explode’ at Zahur-il-Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and at Alhamra Art Gallery, The Mall Road Lahore, Pakistan in 2009. Selected group shows are as below;
2010 ‘Resemble Reassemble’, Devi Art Foundataion, Gurgaon, Delhi, India
2009 ‘Celebratig Karachi’, LAP Expo Centre Karachi, Pakistan
‘Going Places’, Samera Raja Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2008 ‘Inaugural Show’, FSCA Gallery, Mumbai, India
2007 ‘Treertha Residency Exhibition’, Red Dot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
‘Inaugural Show’, National Art Gallery, Islambad, Pakistan
2006 ‘Thirteen Satellites’, Annemarie Schimmel Haus & Alliance Francaise’, Lahore, Pakistan
He says
To me, art and technology through the course of cultural and social evolution have always stood aside in mutual adoration. Perceived notions of meritocracy with a subtle maligning of mechanical and mobility factions reveal to me as an epiphony of struggle amongst the fagments of worldliness and physical existence. I like to inquire into the mechanics of the functional and orchestrate the movements and conjurement of the elements on a virgin backdrop. This often leads to interesting displacement of energies (motorised but not necessarilly kinetic), shunning the pre-understood, adopted and learnt.
Leaping a ground further from the ‘found object’, I also attempt to take on the Modernist 3-dimensional; casting the ‘object’ in different metal and deconstructing the spacial impact, identitical to a terrorist activity unfolding ‘as a visual’ stuck in a standstill moment of time.
Enjoy his work images!!
National College of Arts (exhibition venue)
Constructivist 4
Pull Him Forward or Push Him Back 1
Pull Him Forward or Push Him Back – Detail
Artist of Jun 2010: Khalil Chistee
Khalil Chistee taught at National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, for ten years before moving to States. He was given a Master from California States University, Sacramento. He now lives and works in New York/Lahore. He has been exhibiting internationally since his graduation as below;
Solo Shows
‘Toys Are Us’, VM Gallery, Karachi, Oct, 2008
‘No-Knock’, Green Cardamom, London, April, 2008
‘And then I decided not to have two Bs’: Brain and Balls, Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, USA 2007
‘I Love You’, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan, Feb.2007
‘My Show’, at Witt Gallery, CSUS, CA, USA Sept.. 2006
‘New Works by Khalil Chishtee’ at Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, CA, USA Sep 2005
Selected Group Exhibitions
‘State of Things’, Aicone Gallery, London, Dec 2009
‘Engendered’, Halvai Gallery, New York, June 2009
‘End of Oil’ Exit Art, New York, USA, June, 2009
‘Duet: The Art of Khalil Chishtee & Ruby Chishti’, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, USA, Jan 2009
Hong Kong Art Fair, Green Cardamom, 2008
Dubai Art Fair, Green Cardamom, Booth B52, Dubai, March 2008
Inaugural Show (of the new venue) National Art Gallery Islamabad, Pakistan, Aug 2007
City Lights Exit Art, New York, USA, Oct, 2006
Art for Dummies, CSUS, CA, USA Mar, 2006
Installation at Fools Foundation, Sacramento, CA, USA July 2005
Workshops, Residencies and Lectures
Public Lecture: Center For Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Jan 2009
Lecture: Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan, Oct 2008
Diaspora: One month Residency at Vasl Art Trust, Karachi, Oct 2008
Below are excerpts from an interview during the artist’s recent visit to Karachi from San Francisco:
The News on Sunday: What themes have you worked on, of late?
Khalil Chishtee: As far as the themes and ideas are concerned, everything I do is related to my being. Every situation I depict can be found within me. Patterns of social hierarchy that qualify people as good or bad can all be found inside me because I am also a product of the society that has spawned these types. I strongly believe that all fears are born out of the fear of death while all pleasures are subservient to sex.
TNS: Where did the choice of material — trash bags — come from?
KC: Trash bags came from my experience of seeing garbage bags all around me during my initial stay in New York City. At first, I was quite thrilled to hear the term ‘trash’. Later on, when I moved to El Dorado Hills in California, laid out on a grid, I discovered that the roads and the markings on them appeared to be permanent. On the other hand, the houses and warehouses defied all notions of permanence. Ironically, the sheets employed as roofing material were so thin that they could barely endure the impact of frequent hurricanes in the region.
This somehow reminded me of Indus Valley. The cities in Indus Valley, also laid out on a grid, could not survive the ravages of time. I could see a strong similarity between the two. Clay was the most commonly found material in Indus Valley, and everything there was fashioned out of terra cotta. In the United States, plastic was the most commonly available material. I felt this was the Indus Valley of plastic!
The impermanent nature of the material and its appearance as garbage bags overnight made me dwell on the notion of disposability; perhaps, somewhere, in these bags, lie some relationships, as well.
TNS: How does the concept of love translate in your work?
KC: The desire to inflict pain is only human; it is a manifestation of love. The fact that your beloved has not left you despite the pain you made him go through yields you satisfaction. It also helps you claim, “He’s mine” because he’s withstood the travails of love. True as it all may be, I don’t agree with it.
It is my wish and not necessarily my need that my beloved should reciprocate my sentiments on equal terms. If I am truly in love, I am also helpless. The only kind of love I have known all my life is love without expectation of a reward. Even if my feelings remain unreciprocated, I can’t afford to leave my beloved.
Enjoy his work images!!
‘Children of God’
‘Blame II’
‘Broke Messiah’
‘U believed’
‘U believed’- detail
Artist of May 2010: You Jin
You Jin was born in 1979, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China and graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and completed his B.F.A. at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. He is currently living and working in Beijing, China.
He refers to his unique painting style “Chaotic Codes of Art”. If you look at his work from a close distance it seems that there are swarms of colored insects crawling across the surface of the canvas; a multitude of symbols and secret codes. As the audience steps back an image emerges from the disorder and chaos. It is as though he has broken down natural light into a spectrum of colors, not merely showing the image as it is but how he imagines it should be. You Jin’s art is a manifestation of scenes from his own imagination; from the magnificent and bustling to the calm and oppressive.
He has shown his works gloablly as below;
Solo Exhibition:
2009 ‘Continue Chaotic’, EGG Gallery, Beijing
2008 ‘Chaotic Code’, New Age Gallery, Beijing
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009:
“Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Mainland Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Guangxiang Art Center; Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei International Art Fair, Taipei World Trade Center; Taipei, Taiwan
“Art & Northeast,” Weilan Art Museum; Beijing, China
“Abandoned + Reborn,” Beijing Exhibition Center; Beijing, China
“The Best of Beijing: Contemporary Chinese Art,” Melvin Art Museum; Florida, USA
2008:
Art Asia; Miami, USA
“Future Sky- Chinese Contemporary Young Artists Exhibition,” Today Art Museum;
Beijing, ChinaTaipei International Art Fair, Taipei World Trade Center; Tapei, Taiwan
“New Age, New Blending: New Generation of Chinese and Indonesian Artists
Exchange Exhibition,”
New Age Gallery; Beijing, China
Edwin’s Gallery; Jakarta, Indonesia
“The Age of Innovation, Beijing Persistent”
New Age Gallery; Beijing, China
China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
Enjoy his work images!!
Roar/cry to forge onward, oil on Canvas, 300x180cm, 2007
‘The Threat’, oil on Canvas, 299x199cm, 2008
‘Pillar of Consciousness’, oil on canvas, 220x180cm, 2009
‘Lost Civilization’, oil on canvas, 200x150cm, 2009
Artist of April 2010: Byunglae Park
Byunglae Park was born in 1974 in Yeosu, South Korea, and he is currently living and working in Seoul, South Korea. He was received a M.F.A. from Kunsthochschule Kassel(Prof.Bjørn Melhus), Kassel, Germany in 2007 and a B.F.A. from Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea in 2000. He is specialised in video art and he has been invited to European Media Art Festival 2010(EMAF 2010), Osnabrueck, Germany. He has shown his works globally as below;
2009 Byounglae Park Video Solo-Show, Igong, Seoul, Korea
2009 Seogyonanjang 2009, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2009 1st Off and Free Film Festival, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
2009 Digital Brush, Gallery Hillstate, Seoul, Korea
2009 the 6th Digital Dance Festival – DIDance 2009, Seoul Art Space_Seogyo, Seoul, Korea
2009 8th Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea
2009 EXIS 2009 – Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2009 9th Seoul International Newmedia Festival, Seoul, Korea
2009 Meta-data, Guroartsvalley, Seoul, Korea
2009 Seogyo Sixty 2009: The Game for Respect, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2009 Good bye Siege, Solo Exhibition, Space Croft, Seoul, Korea
2008 Room 19, TUNA Fine Arts College KDMOFA, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 2008 Korea Space Design Culture Festival, Seoul, Korea
2008 A Five Minutes, Gallery Siuter, Seoul, Korea
2008 EXIS 2008 – Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2008 Island 649-11, LIG-Arthall, Seoul, Korea
He was given awards from ‘The Sponsorship of Project’, Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea in 2007, ‘Hessian Film Fund (HFF)’, Frankfurt, Germany in 2007, ‘The Sponsorship of Project’, Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea in 2006, and ‘Project Grant’, Projektrat Uni-Kassel, Kassel, Germany in 2006.
His work is focused on reconstructing the present from the world of one’s unconsciousness by past events and places. As the Artist expresses the unconsciousness of experience cannot be understood easily but if there is a special sign it will show itself naturally. The sign reacts when the present and the unconsciousness bump into each other. At this point the Artist can find the way to oneself. The meeting point is the border of the present and the past. At the same time this point is the first step of the Artist’s awakening of unconsciousness. This sometimes brings back past memories like places or games that the Artist used to like.
Enjoy his work images!!
‘Elastic cord playing’, Single channel video, 7.45 min., 2008
‘Half-Moon Game’, Single channel video, 8.38 min., 2007
‘Talks with Me’, 3 channel video, 13 min.(loop), 2006
Visit Byunglae Park’s website.
Artist of Mar 2010: Chang Young Kim
Chang Young Kim was born in 1974, in Seoul, Korea and currently living and working in NYC. He completed a M.F.A from Partt Institute, Painting, Brooklyn, NYC and a B.F.A from ChuGyue University for the Arts, Painting, Seoul, Korea. He applies the gesso on canvases repeatedly and sand the surfaces. He repeats this processing until the surfaces can sensitively show the colour that he will paint on them. After He finishes the surface, he paints layers of tin oil colours on it, because the tin oil colour, which is made to be mixed with turpentine, helps keep the surface smooth and clean. So that the audiences can see the layers in his paintings without texture. Usually his paintings overlap between fifteen and twenty layers of hand shapes and a background colour.
He’s shown his works globally and selected solo and group shows are as below;
2008 ‘Into the illusion’- Dumbo Art Festival, Front Street Gallery #265, Brooklyn, NY
2008 ‘Election2008′: The Square Foot Show, Art Gotham, New York, NY
2008 ‘Barack Obama Art Show’: Hope, Rogue Space, New York, NY
2008 ‘Hope is Nowhere, Hope is Now Here’, World Culture Open Center, New York, NY
2008 ’99 Art Fair’, hpgrp gallery, New York, NY
2008 ‘Ten Artists’, Gallery Xpose’, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
2008 ‘Dream’, Riverside Gallery, Hachensack, NJ
2008 ‘illusion of Shadows’, World Culture Open Center, New York, NY
2007 ‘Thesis Show’, Pratt Institute South Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
He says
“Contrast between light and shadow is the basic subject matters of my paintings. In my paintings, light substitutes for the actual world, and shadow means the spiritual world.
I concentrate on painting the shadows of my hand because that shape is familiar to everyone. Moreover, people have a preconception about the shape of a hand. In showing the various images of the shadows of my hand, which are changed by light condition, I tell audiences that our environment provides diverse situations that are different from their normal lives. Even though the shapes painted on my canvas look like abstract expressions, they are actual forms that people can find in their lives if they are interested in the shapes of shadows. This expression is the way I show my intention to the audiences”.
I hope you will enjoy his works!!
‘Illusion_Blue_#3′, oil on canvas, 36x48in, 2009
‘Illusion_violet_#3′, oil on canvas, 36x48in, 2009
‘Phenomenon_#3′, oil on canvas, 72x60in, 2006
‘Illusion_violet_#4′, oil on canvas, 72x48in, 2009
Visit Chang Young Kim’s website
Artist of Feb 2010: Mi-hei Her
The medium used of transparency plays with the image of a mirror in which viewers participate in a space-theatre. This play of reflections related simultaneously to her environment is both an actor and a creator, and it becomes an actor in a scene that product itself involved in a movement of the real drama. She said that
“between true and false, said and unsaid, showed and hidden, the player who can be also as a spectator was caught in an abyss attractive but whose boundaries are indistinguishable”.
She completed her PHD at Obtenue d’Arts Plastiques à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne in 2008, and her DEA at d’Arts Plastiques à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne in 2002, and BFA at the same school.
She’s shown her works globally including:
« Individual Invite », Sejong Gallery, Seoul, « 2009 Ace art show », Insa Art Center, Seoul, « KCAF : Korean Contemporary Art Festival », Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, « KCAF : Korean Contemporary Art Festival », Seoul Arts Center, « Individual Invite », Gallery d’art de Créteil, Paris, France, « un moment, une œuvre », Galerie Temps Présent, Créteil, France, «Invites young artists abroad », AKA Seoul Gallery, Seoul, « Regard de la vie quotidienne », L’Arbre de sel, Paris, « Arte Lisboa », Lisbon, Portugal, « Cette petite chose belle », Is Gallery, Seoul, « Koean Artiste 50 », Koean Art Center, Seoul, « Forum de la Culture », Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France, « AG Art Gallery, invited South Korea 32 , « Aliens », Open Center Gallery, New York, « Exhibition Neo WYKA 2007 (new world young korean artistes) », China, « Festival Champcueil », Champcueil, France, « P-N », Space world gallery, New York etc.
Jacques Cohen who is an Emeritus Professor of Sorbonne University Paris I, FRANCE described her works as
“Obsessively, decisively, delicately and very lucidly ‘Her’ and Mi-Hei HER, seeking writer, continued to write and be written by depositing her crystal Pandora boxes on the floor or by affixing to the walls and sometimes on the windows. Also moving on, perhaps, from suffering to the experience…
The author, artist –‘Her’ and Mi-Hei HER – request us to look her “I” with generosity between autobiography and self-fiction. She invites us to become a peculiarly, simultaneously viewer and reader for her messages of images and scriptures, to seduce us, to meet our own image scattered in the maze of manuscripts and typescripts, in the harmony of its reflected shadows and in their digitalized shadows”.
‘Double ‘I’ and Boxes’, mixed media, 30,5cm x 19,5cm x 5cm, 2009
’46 Street Liancourt 75014 Paris’, account, plexiglas, self-adhesive film, aluminum, mirror, adhesives, 24 boxes (12cmx12cmx3cm), 2004
‘My other self , text (private diary), plexiglas, self-adhesive film, adhesives, 14 boxes (16,6cmx16,6cm) 2006
‘That was’, account, plexiglas, self-adhesive film, Phone Card, Text, 36 boxes (11,5cmx11,5cm), 2004
‘Double ‘I’ and Boxes’, mixed media, 70cmx50cmx10cm, 2010
Visit Mi-hei Her’s website.
Artist of Jan 2010: Heena Kim
Heena Kim was born in 1979 in Korea and currently living and working in London. She got her MA at the Central Saint Martins of Art and Design, University of Arts London and another MFA at the Hongik University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea and BFA at the same school.
She has had many solo shows and group shows in many different cities, including, ’The Weirdest Place’ (Samsung Raemian Cultural Centre, Seoul) 2009, ‘The Tomorrow People’ (Elevator Gallery, London), ‘Climate Change Campaign Event-Auction’ (London), ‘artWorksOpe’n (Artworks Project Space, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London), ‘Inside Out’ (The Fire Station Gallery, Windsor), ’20/21 International Art Fair’ (Royal College of Art, London) and ‘Overview’ (Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales).
She stimulates her imagination and makes characters which are part human, part creature in her painting. Dismantling the human body and joining it with parts of non-humans such as insects and animals. She tries to tangle the lines of fragility which defines the anatomy of fantasy. Medium used and hilarious subject matters attract audiences and stimulate their curiosity.
Chameleons, acrylic on canvas, 50x40cm, 2009
Dear pink, acrylic on canvas, 60x60cm, 2009
Hometown, acrylic on canvas, 80x60cm, 2009
Dear M. C. Escher, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 122x122cm,2009
Visit Heena Kim’s website
Very well informed with the paintings. Lovely artist. Good pick for artist of the month.
Thanks a lot!! Yes she is a very talented Artist and her work is creative and unique.
I am going to see her group show 15 Jan so will post more about her works.
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