NYAB Event - "Christmas in August" Exhibition

"Christmas in August" Exhibition

Gana Art Gallery

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The exhibition aims to show you new forms of Christmas trees and icons which we've never thought of or seen before. The 8 participant artists try to embody the basic concept of exhibition by mixing it with their own styles in each of their works. After personally dyeing each Korean paper and pasting them on the LED panel, artist Ga Young Jun builds the panels in a form of a tree. The tree can appear to be a box or a tower, depending where one looks at it. Jeong Won Yoon assembles many layers of circular acrylic panels in a shape of a Lego tree. Each acrylic panels are decorated with flower shaped lights and various forms of Lego dolls.
Jang Sub Lee - The pipes that begin in three different starting points are bent and connected to create a 3D tree structure. The LED installed inside the pipes can be quickly lit, and the speed of LED can be adjusted by the valve located on the front of the installation. Santa Claus and Rudolf reappear every year as Christmas symbols. Yung Wun Yoo's works make a caricature of Santa Claus and Rudolf, and Santa Claus's face resemble the artist's face. Seung Pils's exhibition is based from pink and green toy mini-cars, and the chandelier's lighting and colors carefully consider the exhibition hall's space. When the lights are on, the chandelier gives a calming, yet melancholic feeling, especially when one looks at it from outside. Soo Whan Choi - By installing the LED under the transparent glass, the glass tree's radiance is at its greatest, and as the LED turns on and off spontaneously, it creates a more active glow. Expressing the four seasons with the LED panels, this installation suggest a wreath hung in front of the door on Christmas day. Bum Su Kim embodies the shape with 66 LED panels each pasted with different movie film strips, and each panels are dynamically turned on and off randomly. One can really enjoy this work by carefully looking at the film strips. Kuk Taek Chung's conic tree is interactive, as the colors of the patterns on the surface constantly change and according to the number of visitors, Santa Claus's speed changes as well. The Rudolf chair in red adds to the Christmas ambience.