Five: Korean Young Artists - Korean Cultural Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT: Five: Korean Young Artists

WHEN: July 10-23, 2009,

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 10, 2009 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery,
5505 Wilshire Blvd. A. 90036,
Mon-Fri : 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Sat. 10:00a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

In order to further promote and strengthen Korean art, Director Kim, Jaewon of the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles will hold an exhibition from 7/10-23, with five new, admirable and distinguished Korean artists. The exhibition is entitled ¡°Five: Korean Young Artists¡± and it will include four media artists and one illustration.
The works from this exhibition will provide audience members with hands-on experience and it will enable visitors to travel into a world where their dreams will never cease to exist. With the use of technology, and other diverse mediums, the artists participating in this exhibition will share with the audience the world as viewed through their eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The artist of ¡°One Day Poem Pavilion¡±, Jiyeon Song, was awarded with the Silver Cube at the 2009 Art Director¡¯s Club. She was also selected as the New Visual Designer at the Next Generation Design Leader of 2009 for her work ¡°One Day Poem Pavilion¡±. The ¡°One Day Poem Pavilion¡± uses light and shadowing to show the passage of time. Visitors will be able to have different experiences and interpretations through her work. It offers not only individual experiences through a time-based narrative, but also provides delightful moments when words are revealed by only using natural light and shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

With the use of vision and sound, this artist¡¯s work became distinguished as interactive art. Yoon Chung Han was awarded the Excellence Award at the Asia Digital Art Award in 2008 for her work, ¡°Harmonia¡±. Han was selected as the new multimedia designer at the Next Generation Design Leader 2009 for her work, ¡°Jellyfish¡±. The ¡°Jellyfish is an interactive sound installation. It uses the simplest way of interacting with objects to create sounds; touch. By moving and covering holes by hand, different sounds are generated which were inspired by musical instruments. Viewers can enjoy a musical performance by generating and manipulating sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

The Media Designer, Jinmi Choi was a participant of the Asian Pacific Film Festival. Her work ¡°The Next Illusion¡± creates immersive experiences by combining physical and virtual spaces. Her designs explore and encourage the principles for the design of synthetic cinema with meaningful, unexpected, and poetic experiences. She uses two projectors to create an illusion of virtual space in which the audience will experience and be guided into a world of breathtaking images.

 

 

 

 

 

Yuseung Kim shares with us a great medium between technology and humans. His work, ¡°Blowing Notes¡± uses monitors with notes inside the monitors. Viewers can physically blow it, to make the notes fly around inside the monitor. This fun and amazing work will be shared at the exhibition. Yuseung Kim attempts to find the relationship between the real world versus the dream world, physical space versus virtual space, and the conscious versus the unconscious mind. Each of these relationships carry a deep meaning in regards to time and space and each of these relationships have contradictions, correspondences and parallelisms.

 

 

 

 

 

Joining these four media artists, will be an illustrations artist, Sun Young Yoo. Her work, ¡°Red Shoes¡±, can be found for purchase at Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Amazon.com, Borders.com and many more places. She created her story book by evaluating, interpreting and sharing her thoughts on a book called Christian Anderson¡¯s ¡°Red Shoes¡± which she read as a child in Korean, and also as a young adult (around 23 yrs old) in English. Her main focus was to express her different reaction to this story as a little girl and as a grown-up. Her work, ¡°Red Shoes¡±, is a story book for children as well as adults and it is certainly praiseworthy for its beautiful work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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