Dave Choi "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him"
The Hogar Collection
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"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him" is a debut solo exhibition by New York based artist Dave Choi. Choi will present masterfully idiosyncratic sculptures and videos that simply put, provoke our imagination and explore a world of curious imagination. Like an alchemical experiment his work utilizes and amalgamates materials that primarily consist of everyday and throwaway objects such as dirt, glass, money, cigarette butts, plastic, colored hot glue, taxidermy, wood and etc. into a metamorphosed and rarified state. Exploiting and reconfiguring the materials through a laborious process, the works transform into magical and mysterious oddities that delve out of our psyche and into a unimagined realm of fantastical surrealism that mysteriously reflect ideas of complexly simple postulates and playful meditations.
Dave Choi was born in 1968 in Seoul Korea and lives in works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Rutgers University, was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and The Glasgow School of Fine Arts.
[Dave Choi "Self Portrait" (2009) colored hot glue, fake fur and clothes, 26 x 18 x 10 in.]
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from November 06, 2009 to January 04, 2010