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Exhibitions
《Cold Rub》, 2023.02.03 – 2023.03.11, PHD Group (Hong Kong)
Eunsae Lee's solo exhibition 《Cold Rub》 will be held at PHD Group in Hong Kong from February 3 to March 11, 2023. In her decade-long exploration of painting, Eunsae Lee has engaged with figures and objects to mine relationships between gaze, desire, and consumption.
2023.02.01
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《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London)
HADA Contemparary presents the first UK solo exhibition by Ham Jin (b.1978). He has been best known for his dark and whimsical sculptures, which often incorporated banal objects transforming them into subjects of his wild creativity. This exhibition will bring all new works by the artist that clearly denotes his progression into abstraction that embody the boundless fragile unconsciousness and its beyond.
2014.12.01
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《We must run WWW》, 2022.12.16 – 2023.02.05, Daejeon Museum of Art
In 2022, the Daejeon Museum of Art explored the overarching theme of the “city,” revisiting both the tangible and intangible values that shape urban life. Within cities that have grown and evolved under the banner of a “better future,” hope and despair, virtue and vice, wealth and poverty coexist—revealing that the challenges facing humanity persist under different names.
2022.12.15
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Artist Chung Seoyoung Captures the ‘Sculptural Moments’ from the Objects
Playing a leading role in the establishment of “Korean Contemporary Art” as a new category of contemporary art in the 1990s, sculptor Chung Seoyoung (b. 1964) has been addressing fundamental questions concerning sculpture itself by incorporating the unrealistic gaps in the rapidly changing atmosphere of Korean society into her sculptures. In particular, the artist has garnered attention for her practice of reassembling and transforming everyday commodities found in industrialized societies, such as Styrofoam, plastic, plywood, and sponges, into a sculptural state.
2024.07.16