"Memories" Exhibition
Elga Wimmer PCC
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People live with their memories, yet are too busy in their everyday lives to spend much time reminiscing. They’re too busy to discuss them with loved ones or just plain tired. They may even want to forget certain events recurring in their thoughts. Through this show 11 Korean-American artists recreate in images some of their memories through a fresh approach.
Lonnie Hong’s works leads us to remember our childhood when we scribbled on a wall in the alley.
Like those scribbles on the wall, we can feel a sense of closeness through the minimal object. With this heartwarming memory, Hong wishes to make her viewer smile while enjoying her works.
Kinetic artist You Jeong Paik’s work moves by responding to the sounds of surrounding objects. From the work entitled Loyalty, we sense a kind of nobility seldom felt. Hijo Nam’s memories take many turns. Among the most poignant are those he lived as an artist where past and present meet and become evident as brilliant color. Youngmi Lee paints her imaginary world based on her memories of glamorous color harmonies that offer her a feeling of comfort. Lee simplifies forms, emphasizes color contrasts eliminates perspective and light-and-shade while reorganizing objects and reinterpreting them according to her feelings. Namsook Kwon’s most powerful memories go back to nature and specifically, trees. As a teenager Kwon spent time thinking and resting under her favorite tree, she imagined another, bigger world. A tree can be seen in terms of one’s self-portrait one reflecting her life. Sung Eun Kim depicts her dreams as a young woman, as youngster, bride or mother. Her soft coloration leads us into the dreamlike atmosphere of illusion. Hak-Kyun Kim’s ceramic work Super baby series presents specific humorous expressions and actions that only innocent children can express. These small figures wear a cape, hold a paper boat, have wings, and don goggles important features in Kim’s work. Mikyung Seo’s work Hide-and-Seek is not only about a simple game we played as children, but it is hide-and-seek for the artist who seeks her own self in her works. Ho Han applies a childlike language in his art creating with scribbled text his artistic expression. Several of Han’s characters appear to be reminiscent of cave paintings that contain similar magic. Sung Min Lee deals with transcending the physical to attain the spiritual. These boundaries found in Korean Buddhism and culture, are depicted by Lee as the belly button which connects a mother to an unborn child. This belly button represents our identity but can also be seen as the entrance within the boundary of the physical and spiritual realm. Inhae Kim through her depicted childhood fantasy world exists in real time to communicate her playful memories and at times her sorrow or loneliness.
[Image:Young-Mi Lee "Memory(Flower and Cheetah)"]
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Schedule
from August 11, 2011 to August 26, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-08-11 from 18:00 to 20:00