Chun Kwang Young exhibition at Villa Empain (April 23 – November 27, 2022)
Updated on November 17, 2022 by Pierre
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Perhaps you discovered Chun Kwang Young previously at his earlier exhibition at Art'Loft? Did you like it, or did you miss it? Don't miss a premiere at the Boghossian Foundation: a single artist in the spotlight . Chun Kwang Young occupies the space perfectly in this majestic Art Deco building: the Villa Empain.
The Boghossian Foundation announced in its latest press release: Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac during the 59th Venice Biennale. Majestic would be the appropriate word when one considers that the exhibition comprises 40 sculptures, reliefs, and installations made of mulberry paper.
The Boghossian Foundation presents the exhibition Chun Kwang Young: Times
The Italian architect Stefano Boeri presents the “Hanji House”, the architectural commission imagined specifically for the site of this project. It is actually a collapsible architectural structure. This cannot go unnoticed. Consisting of a wooden and textile membrane placed like a lantern, we guess that the piece of art in question draws its source from the practice of folding paper which can be declined endlessly.
For Chun Kwang Young, each triangle encloses an independent semantic component. In a way, a unit of information. By interweaving them in several structures, the whole reveals a confrontation between hopes and reality... An American dream and traditional Asian values
Who is Chun Kwang Young
If you're not familiar with him, he's a Korean artist who has been working for 30 years on the theme of the interconnectedness of living beings and the socio-ecological values of their relationships. The result of his work is quite rare in our part of the world: "Hanji," which is Korean mulberry paper.
His artistic career is not short. It covers more than fifty years of experience, and has and has been exhibited in renowned international museums and galleries. Among these are the
- Brooklyn Museum in New York (2018),
- Mori Arts Center (Tokyo, 2009),
- National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2001)
- Boghossian Foundation (Brussels, 2017).
Practical Information Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined
The exhibition will run from April 23 to November 27, 2022
The opening will take place from April 20 to 22, 2022Meeting with Chun Kwang Young, Stefano Boeri and Youngwoo Lee on request
Chun Kwang Young exhibition contact
caroline schuermans
caroline@boghossianfoundation.be
+32 497 46 12 64
Address of the Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain
Villa Empain, Center for art and dialogue between Eastern and Western cultures
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 67 – 1050 Brussels
www.boghossianfoundation.be
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