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HYUNMI
YOO 6.27 ~ 7.11, 2007 Born in 1964, the artist received her B.F.A. in Fine Art from Seoul National University and M.F.A. A.P.C. from New York University. Her works were exhibited in Christine Rose Gallery(Chelsea, New York), the Bronx Museum(New York), New Jersey State Museum(Trenton, New Jersey), and Alternative Museum(New York). She has exhibited in Seoul after the year of 1997, presented in significant museums such as Art Son-je Center(2002), Samsung Museum(Art Spectrum,2001), and Seoul Museum of Art (Media city seoul, 2000). Yoo, has received the '5th Moran Sculpture Grand-Prix'(2001), 'Amos Eno gallery Grand-Prix(1993) and participated in residency programs of Art Omi(New York, 2001), PS.122 Project Artist Residency(1995), and Ssamzie space(1999-2000). The previous works of Yoo, Hyun Mi were figures of puzzles that are applied to sculpture that dealt with the concept of 'unconscious entity'. It is an incomplete picture when a piece is missing, which is to omit the complicated and complete structure of a puzzle, and to remake it by juxtaposing an unconscious memory with a reasonable world of logic structure. In hence, this exhibition differs from the previous works of Yoo, Hyun Mi where the concepts were interpreting an unconscious world to a reasonable system and exposes the contradictional side of human logic structure. This procedure initiates from the human's incomplete perspective, which is a story about 'reality and unreality' and formed at the borderline between the two and three-dimensional line. The artist first applies clay on objects and repeats it by layering it with paint. It could be seen as a 'still life' within objects that are surrounded with a space that is painted with thick brush strokes. Each of the object's shadow is painted as well. Throughout this procedure only a single photograph is remained. The objects exist in a real space; however, the finalized art piece looks as if it is painted manually. The three dimensional space is transformed to a two-dimensional plane conformity, which is created by adding pictorial brush strokes in photography. The observer looks at the picture which looks like a painting, and as the observer looks into the picture more carefully, he/she realizes that the objects in the painting exist in reality. By the artist's ordinary objects that float around the dimensional borderline, this exhibition offers an opportunity to think about 'reality and unreality' and 'entity and immateriality'.
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