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Kim Hyun Ji
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gallery zandari's
Wall - a story behind that
DATE : 22th. June 2006 (Thu) - 30th. July (Sun)
OPENING : 22th. June 2006 6:00 PM
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gallery zandari
curator: Heejung Song
tel.: +82 2 323 4155
Mail: hjsong@zandari.com
TITLE : Wall _ a story behind that
DATE : 22th June 2006 (Thu) - 30th July (Sun)
ARTISTS : Kim Mi-hyung, Kim Min Jeong, Kim Si Yeon, Kim Hyun Ji, Park Sung Yeon, Sim Sora, Yu Jin Young, Jun Ka-Young, Choi Wonjung
OPENING : 22th June 2006 (Thu) 6:00 PM
EXHIBITION CONCEPT
Wall - a story behind that
If we could block a path so as to disperse a flow, an indifferent flow passes through that path.
Louis Kahn
What if it could happen in a gallery to disperse the path of movement by walling up rooms and passages of exhibition space? As walls, columns or gates appear out of context, the space allows you not easily to pass by, and transforms itself. Wall blocks and changes the flow, interrupts and makes path at the same time, demolishes existing space and creates a new one, and thus interests us, also discomforts though. This show intends to be a site of play, evoked by obstacles dispersing the usual streams of the space such as empty rooms, gates and walls interrupting visitors out of sudden, or narrow passage, and works displayed or hidden in-between.
A story begins from wall
Anyone might have such an experience, say, of being terrified by unknown fear and having muscle rigid, when coming face to face with a high wall, being alone in a closed space, or waiting for the door to open for a few seconds right after the elevator gets to the floor you destined to. And when we hear indistinct noise from behind a wall, or find lights coming through a hole or a crack on a wall, our curiosity is invoked to check what lies the behind the wall. Being captured by the seduction of those sound and light, we chase those uncertain clues and start to give full play to our imagination. What is it that lies behind the wall? What is happening there? While the wall interrupting our view seems to be an obstacle, it is right from here on the wall that our imagination starts to run, and also a story about a space beyond, invisible world begins.
Adventure to wall - beyond that, from that, or inbetween
Curiosity about something, vaguely seen through glass door, moving, stirs up an adventure. In a space in between walls on either side, filled with regular sound of breathing, there is a gigantic apple (Park, Sung Yeon) jammed, height of which exceeds by far the stature of human life-size. In that confined place, the apple seems rather to bring itself up bigger and bigger so as to push the walls out. Beginning of the adventure is an escape from wall, which appears, unless, to get nearer to the extent of your being squeezed. There is, on the one side, a wall sliding to open and on the other, a door closed tight through the chinks of that rays of light shines. (Kim, Min Jeong) Which one to choose is up to the spectator.
The moment the wall opens, when you walk into the room behind the wall, then it slides down to a floor beneath. And the wall opens as it stops to descend, but you cannot walk out. For glass lawn (Sim Sora) is spread there to prevent you to get down. All you can do is just stay inside the wall and look over a space glimmering over there (Kim, Hyun Ji) wondering what that must be. The wall is then closed and descend again.
Trying once more to get out, however, you find something unexpected and move off. The floor, on which your footprint remains after stepping in, is not just a floor (Kim, Si Yeon). Now, retreating to behind the wall again, you can't help but going upstairs where squeezing walls terrify you. The wall opening itself that you choose first is not so smooth like this. Nothing is accessible. The space, the path, or the flow is cut and interrupted.
What if you touch the work (Kim, Min Jeong) to open the closed door carefully? Behind the door there stretches a passage shining out various lights in the dark(Jun, Ka-Young). This is the very path joining door to door, space to space and guiding spectators to a space behind the wall. You bump against dead ends here and there and start anew to find another way out, as if you are in a labyrinth. In a room found at the end of the narrow passage, there line up works of art only visible through a hole on a wall (Kim, Mi-hyung). Endless reiterating walls break the natural flow in space and puzzle you. People confined to a wall closet (Yu, Jin Young) you encounter on a way along the wall may be spectators went in advance, who are under a spell on the adventure they took out of curiosity. Another light waves to you in silence. A green door glimmering in front (Choi, Wonjung) seems to make you out from this dizzy space. But when you touch the door, that appears on the wall and floor so tactile, there remains nothing but the shadow, for that is an illusion.
Imagination! An endless story
White wall in an exhibition room is always occupied by works of art. Wall is always an extra. By a position we take in front of a wall a space is divided as this side and that side. The wall, on which the work we've been appreciating hangs, talks to us: whether we know that there are so much more stories behind that invisible space behind the wall. What if we are capable of going in and out of wall like the man in a novel Le Passe Murailles by Maecel Ayme, so that we can encounter a work of art from either side of the wall behind that? An idea lke this shakes the existing order of exhibition space.
The construction of the gallery is itself an wall, and thus the walls and spaces of that building are displaced. Entering through the gate becomes entering into the wall, and meanwhile spectators become that man coming in and out of that wall. If you are lost in that space, like the man who are confined to that wall and become one with that wall at the end, you yourself may be confined to a wall.
We wish this show, where nine artists constructed every space, from the exhibition room to staircases, passages, even an elevator, as wall, inside-wall, behind-wall so as inside and outside, hither and thither to dislocate and intersect each other, would be a subject of a story, which visitors designate themselves. If to appreciate the works like that could be a passage of play to a world of imagination and fantasy in fairytale, the story started from the wall would continue endlessly.
Two friends converse each other.
"It seems that I lost inspiration. I feel like standing in front of an wall…"
"Well, if so, looks like you found a great motif…" (2)
So it is. A wall.
Song, Heejung (Curator, gallery zandari)
(1)Louis I. Kahn, "Louis Kahn : Conversation with Students"
(2)Romain Gary, "Le mur", "Les oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou"
ARTIST & WORKS
Mi-hyung Kim
B.F.A., Dept. of Painting, Hongik University, Seoul. Wing Wing(Insa Art Space, Seoul , 2005), Breathing Space (Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul, 2000)-selected solos exhibition and Pleasure of Contemplation(Sun Art Center, Sun Gallery, Seoul, 2004), Consonance(Haein Temple Seongbo Museum, Hapcheon, Geongnam, 2004), Rolling Space(Marronnier Art Center, The Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, 2004) - selected group exhibitions.
Min Jeong Kim
M.F.A., Dept. of Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul. B.F.A., Dept. of Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul.
House (Shin Han Gallery, Seoul, 2006)-solo exhibition and Magic Art (Chosunilbo Gallery, Seoul, 2005), Open Studio(Ilsan, Gyeonggido, 2004), Sprit (KIMIart, Seoul, 2004), Space Collection(Backsang Gallery, Seoul, 2003)- selected group exhibitions.
Si Yeon Kim
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts. NY, U.S.A. M.F.A., in sculpture, Ewha Womans University Graduate School, Seoul. B.F.A., in sculpture, Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
Seo 5th Young Artist Exhibition(Seo Gallery, Seoul, 2005), A house in depression(Gallery Factory, Seoul, 2004)- selected solo exhibitions and The pictures longing for being Stamps(SBS Artleeum, Seoul, 2006), Turtle's Tail (The Chiwoo Craft Museum, Seoul, 2006), 2005 Remark of Young artist, Suggestion of critic (Project space zip, Seoul, 2005)- selected group exhibitions.
Hyun Ji Kim
Graduate School of Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul (present), B.F.A in Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul.
2006 SEO 1st Wall Painting Exhibition (Seo Gallery, Seoul, 2006), ART WALL ARTIST-Moving Beyond the Boundary of Painting (Coreana Art & Culture Complex Space*C, Seoul, 2006), Sewha Gyonmunrok (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, 2005), Preparat 2005 :DJing Korean Culture (Gallery Skape, Seoul, 2005)- selected group exhibitions.
Sung Yeon Park
M.F.A., in painting, Ewha Womans University Graduate School, Seoul. B.F.A., in painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
Night, Night, SweAt Dream! ( Brain Factory, Seoul, 2004), Visible and Invisible (Gallery ArtLink, Seoul, 2004) -solo exhibitions and Inter-spaces (Ewha Art Center, Seoul, 2005), Seoul Exhibition of Young Artist_ Portfolio 2005 (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2005), Object Painting (gallery chosun, Seoul, 2004)-selected group exhibitions.
Sora Sim
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, U.S.A. M.F.A., Graduate course of fine art, Korean National University of Art, Seoul. B.F.A., Dept. of Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul.
Weak & Covered Drawing (Da Gallery, Seoul, 2005), Glass Room (SongEun Gallery, Seoul, 2003)- selected solo exhibitions and 5199 Mile Journey (SIU Museum, IL/ Baseline Gallery, Missouri, U.S.A, 2006), Drawing of the Red Apple (Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, 2006)- selected group exhibitions.
Jin Young Yu
M.F.A., in sculpture, Graduate School of Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, B.F.A., in sculpture, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul.
LEAF.LIFE (Noam gallery, Seoul, 2004) -solo exhibition and Festival (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2006), Whey protein (KIMIart, Seoul, 2006), funny unny IV (Gallery Sejul, Seoul, 2005), Object Painting (gallery chosun, Seoul, 2004), 21C shamanism (Choheung gallery, Seoul, 2004) -selected group exhibitions.
Ka-Young Jun
M.F.A., in Korean Painting, Ewha Womans University Graduate School, Seoul, B.F.A., in Korean Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul color concert (Galerie Gaia, Seoul, 2004)-solo exhibition and dyeing Seorae Town (Gallery LUV, Seoul, 2006), 40 Young Bloods ? (Opra Gallery, Seoul, 2006), Seoul Exhibition of Young Artst_Portfolio 2005 (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2005), Vividness of Power (Sejong Arts Center, Seoul, 2005), Five Senses +a (Modern Art Gallery of Hongik University, Seoul, 2005)-selected group exhibitions.
Wonjung Choi
M.F.A., in Art & Technology, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, U.S.A.M.F.A., in Painting, Ewha Womans University Graduate School, Seoul. B.F.A., in Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
Green Door (Gallery DOS, Seoul, 2006), Drawing Invisible (Gallery Fish, Seoul, 2002)- solo exhibitions and Inter-spaces (Gallery DOS/ Ewha Art Center, Seoul, 2005), EMAF : Media in f (Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 2005), Virtual Eden (Gallery Myart, Seoul, 2004)- selected group exhibitions. |
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