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Artist Rhee Donghoon: Exploring New Relationships Between Sculpture and Painting
Rhee Donghoon (b.1991) navigates between the traditional mediums of sculpture and painting, continually exploring the relationship between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional. His practice involves closely observing living subjects such as plants, trees, and human figures, which he carves into wooden sculptures. These sculpted still lifes then become the subjects of his paintings.
2025.04.22
Exhibitions
《Room with Flowers》, 2019.10.17 – 2019.11.23, DrawingRoom
"The artist first references the form of an object, then invites viewers to consider the form, rhythm, and volume of the sculpture itself. The process becomes a struggle with the material… ultimately a tug-of-war between ‘appearing as wood’ and ‘not appearing as wood.’"
2019.10.15
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Artist Hannah Woo’s Hybrid and Horizontal World Woven in Fabric
Hannah Woo (b.1988) presents works that transcend genre boundaries—from two-dimensional pieces to sculptures and installations—using fabric as her primary medium to explore situations where opposing forces and entities such as the living and the inanimate, the protector and the protected, aging and youth, pain and ecstasy, merge and complement one another.
2025.05.01
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《Golden Age》, 2007.11.16 – 2008.01.06, Arario Gallery Cheonan
Through our lived experiences in the real world, we acquire concepts, values, knowledge, and worldviews. Thus, the totality of an individual’s thoughts is always deeply related to the real world that person inhabits. Perception itself is formed in relation to this reality. Painting, too, is grounded in an awareness of the real world.
2007.11.16
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[Critique] How to inhabit Cyber Culture?
It is indeed digital ‘revolution’, how rapid and immense changes the Internet communication network has brought into our lives—our way of thinking and our life styles. So-called, N-generation has witnessed the explosive growth of the IT industry in the 90’s.
2004
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[Critique] Echography of Exhausted Materials
Where do a black sphere brutally made of 16 tons of cast iron and less than 1 gram of coal tar solution meet? Where do an old railroad sleeper—its entire body cracked open and its crevices soaked with thick black grease—and a pitch-black lump of coal, so dense that there is not even space to stick a needle, find a point of contact?
2014
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Artist Do Ho Suh Weaves Shapes of Memories
Known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale homes, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962) works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity. Over the past three decades, he has built an international reputation for his intriguing and creative works.
2024.07.02
