04 : ABOUT THE ARTIST
CHUN KWANG YOUNG
Bsorn in 1944 in Hongchun, South Korea. In 1968, he obtained a BFA from the University of Hong-Ik in Seoul and, in 1971, an MFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. He works and lives in Gyunggi, South Korea.
Chun has received numerous awards and was named artist of the year by The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, in 2001. In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential prize in the 41st Korean Culture and Art Prize by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Korea.
Chun Kwang Young's world is inspired both by his Korean culture and his personal history. He has created an entire piece out of triangles of Styrofoam wrapped in traditional Korean paper called Hanji, which is made from bramble bush leaves. Each one of his works is a like an assembly game, with the little triangles interacting to create imaginary landscapes with various colors, reliefs and volumes that form an infinite abstract space. The combination of these "mundane" little triangles wrapped in bits of old texts written in Korean or Chinese alphabet, contains various elements of the collective memory. It is in these little triangles that lies the power of the "AGGREGATIONS", which for the artist are like windows reflecting his vision of humanity.
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