Articles
May, 2012
HEREN
Texts
After Korea recovered from the 1997 currency crisis, the country’s contemporary art scene faced many changes in the 2000s. With a growing emphasis on the cultural economy, the government developed a number of cultural policies to support underrepresented artists. Several alternative spaces that fostered new movements in the Korean contemporary art landscape appeared, and the art market began to flourish alongside the emergence of new art fairs and auction houses.
2022.02.14
Essays
Many people, like me, probably heard about the Korean artist Osang Gwon from his series of photograph-sculptures ‘Deodorant Type’. In regards to the series, the artist once commented about himself as an artist who “attempts to explore a kind of light-weight sculpture” which earned him a reputation in the
2016.10.05
“조각가치고는 왜소한 체격. 무거운 조각상을 다루며 옮기기가 버거웠다. 옮기기 쉽고 가벼운 조각을 궁리했다. 사진을 오려 붙여 입체 조각상을 만들었다. 내가 머리에 인 조각상의 무게는 2.990kg. 세상 어디에도 없던 ‘사진 조각’은 나의 왜소함에서 탄생했다.”
2012.10.21
Criticisms
In general, Osang Gwon’s oeuvre consists largely of Deodorant Type, The Flat, and The Sclupture series. Started in beginning of 1998, Deodorant Type is the oldest, most acclaimed of Gwon’s art practice.
2012.10.01
Gwon Osang is considered the pioneer of a new genre in sculpture, with his on-going research in three different types of form including ‘Deodorant Type’, ‘The Sculpture’, and ‘The Flat’ series. In particular, his photo sculptures ‘Deodorant Type’ series—in which photographs of the subject are glued onto the actual form of the subject made of light material such as Styrofoam
2012
"아아, 이 세계를 완전히 분해해서 다시 조립할 수 있다면..." (발터 벤야민) 회화와 조각을 구별하는 기준은 뭘까? 가장 잘 알려진 방법은
June, 2012
