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<2008 CYAN Special Exhibition> Close To You
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Title: <2008 CYAN Special Exhibition> Close To You
Term: January 11(Fri) - April 27(Sun), 2008
Opening: 4:00 p.m. January 11(Fri), 2008
Place: Special Exhibitioins Gallery 1-3 floor, Education Center Gallery 1 floor, Museum Sculpture Park
Organizer: Cyan Museum of Art(Sook-Hee Byeon), OPEN WORK(Dong-Sin Hahn)
Artists:
Dong-hwan Bai,
Zong-de An,
Sang-dong Noh,
Jong-yuen Ahn,
Lee-nam Lee,
Hun-chung Lee
Curator: Sun-hack Kang (Independent Curator, Art Critic), Ahreum Kim (Curator, Cyan Museum of Art)
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Close To You
It has been said a work of art is the face of the artist in the sense that an artwork stands for the artist and not that the artwork is the artist. Isn’t the artwork already the Other that stands across from the artist? This, then, poses the questions: is an exhibition the face of an artwork, or its body? Or, is it the face or body or the artist?
“Close To You” is an exhibition of six artists with six very different and distinct styles. When an exhibition is based on an underlying concept all of the artwork is aligned for clarity. But this is accompanied with the weight of the curator’s influence in that the face of the curator comes before the face of the artist. However an exhibit that lacks a cohesive concept is just a collection of artists which is cumbersome and often taxing. In this exhibit the artists, who wanted to avoid a curator’s weight, have chosen a new path for exhibiting their work ever aware of the challenges of having a new content within an old context.
<“Close To You” Concept>
Things that are not me stand in a third-person relationship to me. However “you” is not in a third-person relationship but in a second-person relationship. The Other has moved from the third-person to the more concentrated form of the second-person. The encounter with “you” is unavoidable and therefore the second-person is necessary. For artists the exhibition and artwork stand in the second-person position against that of the Other.
From the generality of the third-person it moves closer and stands in front of me. The third-person is no longer, but has become the second-person. The Other now stands in front of me. It can never be “me” but this “me” can never be proven without “you”. Thus, the “me” of this absence is the “you” of the second-person position.
The Other stands in front of me. And I stand in front of “you”. What is it that I am looking at? Something changes with my next breath: is it me or you that changes? No. It is the “me” and “you” that changed from the position of the Now. Through the world in front of me I know that I am. It is this moment of recognition that I see myself as the Other. What stands in front of me, in the present, is the artwork and the exhibition.
Art is always revealed in a form of exhibition. Since an exhibition always exists in the present, in the context of here, an exhibition is the artist and the Other at the same time. An exhibition is the gaze of the Other that makes inquiries about the artworks. “The now refers to the fundamental temporality that confirms all the phenomenon of existence. In the now, a being exists, and the existent being is recognized at the horizon of existing.” We approach an artwork from the position of the here and now. It is a showing of one’s face to oneself. However, it is also certain that “a face is the appearance of the Other that cannot be minimized as the as the same person.” Hence, an exhibition is a way to ask questions. The questions itself is the answer to the question about the necessity of the exhibition. According to Levinas, “the face of the Other is the question prior to all the questions.” In essence, the One, the other, art and an exhibition exist here as questions.
The moment when approaching the Other is the moment when the Other and the One meld into oneness. This is the moment of clarification for both the One and the Other. This is the moment of stepping into the multiple meanings of the world. “The mystery of time has a thousand faces, which catches us in the life of the moment”, the face of the Other and the face of the Self. Life stands in the midst of confrontations with things that are of me but are not me. The meaning of an exhibition is similar to having this confrontation as its basis. Rather than putting forward a concept, a theme, or an ideology, “Close To You” is about touching, crossing, and dividing based on multiple confrontations. The unification of the division is the expression of life. That moment where the third-person becomes the second-person position is when the Other is seen as the self. That moment when the Self is distinguished as the Other is the moment when we find this exhibition unique.
The installation remains constantly in the third-person relationship because of its non-regulated site-specific quality (unbestimmtheitestelle). When I stand in front of him/her, and when he/she stands in front of me, only then will the “you” (of the second-person) and the artwork/exhibition (the One and the Other) exist together. Unification of these confrontations is what brings the multiple styles, multiple meanings, and multiplicity itself into its appropriate futuristic aim. We see the Other and make art by interpreting phenomena rather than suggesting it, and by letting the present look into the future together. It is internalizing the Other as the Self. Here we find the justification for the multiplicity of this exhibition.
- Sun-hack Kang (Art Critic)
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Artists & Works
<Museum sculpture park>
Hun-chung Lee : [Digging Land & Laying Stones - Journey], 350×1300×200, Stones, Land, Wood, 2008
[Watching the Road in My Heart], Seeds of Barley, Sunlight, Wind, Water, 2008
<Glass-view 1 floor>
Hun-chung Lee : [Balance], A Pine Tree, 2008
<Small Gallery 1 floor>
Hun-chung Lee : [Untitled], Water, Wood, Wind, 2008
<Gallery 1 floor>
Lee-nam Lee : [Digitalized-Mookjookdo], Video installation, 5m, 2007
[Digitalized-Portrait of Jaegong Chae], Video installation, 3m, 2007
[Digitalized-Chochungdo], Video installation, 5m, 2007
[Korean 8-fold screen], Video installation, 6m, 2007
[Digitalized-Monna Lisa], Video installation, 4m, 2007
[Digitalized-Girl with a Pearl Earring], Video installation, 2m 30s, 2007
<Gallery 1 floor>
Sang-dong Noh : [Han-il-ja (一) Abstraction], Muk and color on korean paper, 2007
<Gallery 1 floor>, <Gallery 2 floor>
Jong-yuen Ahn : [LIGHT in Time & Space], Stones, Glass Casing, LED Lights, Sound, 2007
<Gallery 3 floor>
Dong-hwan Bai : [Yeokmasal I. II, III], Acrylic on canvas, 2007
[The home far away I, II], Korean paper on canvas, sewing, 2006
[Wind & Flower], Mixed Media on canvas, 2001
<Gallery 3 floor>
Zong-de An : [Invisible reality I-V], Cloth, Paper, Soil, Wood, Gold dust, Sweet potato, 2000~2008
<Education Center>
Extended artworks of all artists above
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