NYAB Event - "21st Century Conceptual Visions" Exhibition

"21st Century Conceptual Visions" Exhibition

Elga Wimmer PCC

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Through this show 7 Korean And Korean American artists present the recreation of images through a fresh approach. Their objective is not only to create visually appealing works but also ones with a powerful concept. They avoid literal or simplistic notions for the purpose of creating a visual language that incorporates the viewer's reading.

Gil Seo conceived the exhibition “Apatetist” from the word “apatetic” which has traditionally been used as a scientific term for animals characterized by coloration serving as natural camouflage. His goal is to apply this term to human beings to explore a unique perspective on beauty informed by what we has been traditionally taught but with a willingness to explore new vistas. Seo’s work in “Apatetist” represents masterful combinations of fine-art portraiture unified and interposed with detailed patterns of dead skin & leaves to reflect traditional perceptions of beauty, and notions of beauty expected of what was once considered as “other”.

Helen Chung Lee's work combines photography and painting.
When Lee creates her art through photography, she captures more than just what is visible through the lens. She wants to uncover the hidden meanings and qualities of the subject. Lee’s work is about maximizing the creative power of the medium through her own interpretation of the visible world around her.

Junku Kang captures the sensations he has when studying aspects of nature. He creates an interactive story through unlimited images and moods. In a sense his project is prosaic, in that it is about his everyday memories.
Kang's production has psychological, cultural, and artistic connections such as the ones forming in our minds as we walk around particular locations.
These memories are unconsciously stored in our mind or a large data space. This personal database is Kang's medium of expression.

Eel Kwon Kim’s bi-partitioned canvases of landscapes act as potent signs of a specific place or class, and are socially relevant. Kim’s evocative landscapes offer hope, for in them is a space for dreaming, an alternative to the city or suburb of reality, a place where anything is possible. The time element also plays a crucial role in Kim’s landscapes.
While the date is also important to Kim, it serves as a marker for remembering time extended to fit his own needs, as if asserting the day’s extension into imaginary time to become the sublime landscape.

Myoung Su Heuo tries to show sensitivity to analog through his work.
Variety of digital information and culture has developed rapidly. However, mechanization of knowledge and information brings about the loss of nature. Heuo combines painting with digital media as a tool to open new routes of art. Heuo believes that art in the digital age must contribute to the creation of artistic machines and cultural network environments. The only way for art to survive is not by 'technology' but rather through ART. The analog sensibility shooud be re-interpreted for the digital age.

SangMi Lee’s intention is to create a "nature of responsiveness" in the viewer. Lee eliminates depth of field to create images that consist only of a foreground, one that results in a ritual composition. Lee creates sharp lines with a gradual lightness in contrast (or as she puts it, an echo of memory). Using black and white, she tries to compress an experience into the tightness of the present moment. What Lee sees through the camera lens is her own reality such as lines that flower expresses like a woman’s body.

Stone Kim focused on the trees and he is built up from an Asian premise called Ying-Yang, representing the interactive relationship of two conflicting elements, such as Orderliness vs. chaos, softness vs. hardness, emptiness vs. fullness, creation vs. destruction and so on which brings out deep expressions from our internal nature. Photography as Kim’s primary medium also follows the concept of Ying-Yang because it is the consequences from interaction of lightness and darkness as the same as Ying-Yang. Using negative images as positive images is the main process in Kim’s work. He is also energetically working forward in the art fields.

Media

• Painting
• Photography

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