"Sensitive Structure"
Kwang Young Chun
BECK & EGGELING
Bilker Strasse 4-6 40213 Düsseldorf Germany
+49 211 2107911 e-mail:
24 May > 12 July, 2019
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Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art is pleased to present the second solo-exhibition of internationally renowned Korean artist Kwang Young Chun in Düsseldorf.
THE EXHIBITION
Kwang Young Chun's globally acclaimed "Aggregation" works combine elements of painting and sculpture: "accumulations" of hundreds of small, triangular styrofoam forms, carefully wrapped in old mulberry paper (hanji) and dyed with pigments, ash or tea become relief-like wall or freestanding sculptures.
Chun was born in Hongchun, South Korea, in 1944 and grew up during the Japanese colonization and brutality of the Korean War. In the early 1970s, he studied Western painting at the Philadelphia College of Art and was particularly attracted to the freedom of Abstract Expressionism. With his return to Korea, he began to focus on developing his own methodology.
The path to his unmistakable technique was marked by a childhood memory of a visit to a doctor: medical herbs wrapped in mulberry paper and tied into small packages hung down from the practice ceiling. Fascinated by the idea of combining the materials, techniques and feelings of his Korean heritage with the conceptual freedom he had come to know during his western education, Chun finally found his visual language, which is completely unique and reflects his history and cultural identity.
Over the years, his "Aggregations" have become more colorful and have evolved in complexity and size, but the use of mulberry paper remains at the heart of its artistic practice.
Kwang Young Chun's works are exhibited internationally and are in prestigious public collections, including the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations, New York; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Society Building, Pennsylvania; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and the Seoul Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; as well as the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta.
THE EXHIBITION
Kwang Young Chun's globally acclaimed "Aggregation" works combine elements of painting and sculpture: "accumulations" of hundreds of small, triangular styrofoam forms, carefully wrapped in old mulberry paper (hanji) and dyed with pigments, ash or tea become relief-like wall or freestanding sculptures.
Chun was born in Hongchun, South Korea, in 1944 and grew up during the Japanese colonization and brutality of the Korean War. In the early 1970s, he studied Western painting at the Philadelphia College of Art and was particularly attracted to the freedom of Abstract Expressionism. With his return to Korea, he began to focus on developing his own methodology.
The path to his unmistakable technique was marked by a childhood memory of a visit to a doctor: medical herbs wrapped in mulberry paper and tied into small packages hung down from the practice ceiling. Fascinated by the idea of combining the materials, techniques and feelings of his Korean heritage with the conceptual freedom he had come to know during his western education, Chun finally found his visual language, which is completely unique and reflects his history and cultural identity.
Over the years, his "Aggregations" have become more colorful and have evolved in complexity and size, but the use of mulberry paper remains at the heart of its artistic practice.
Kwang Young Chun's works are exhibited internationally and are in prestigious public collections, including the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations, New York; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Society Building, Pennsylvania; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and the Seoul Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; as well as the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta.
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Kwang Young Chun |
Vernissage:
Thursday, 23 May 2019, 6 pm
(The artist will be present.)
(The artist will be present.)
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