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KIM HYUNJUN KIM YOUNGHUN HAN JISOC
KIm HYUNJUNKIm YOUNGHUN
HAN JISOC
This catalogue is published by HADA Contemporary to accompany the exhibition:
HAN JISOC, KIm HYUNJUN, KIm YOUNGHUNGROUP EXHIBITION
7 FEBRUARY - 3 mARCH 2013
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any mean, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without prior written permission from HADA Contemporary Ltd.
KIm HYUNJUNKIm YOUNGHUN
HAN JISOC
Kim Hyunjun’s ar tistic practice focuses on the correlation between material, human and society. His immaterial packaging
sculptures embody the confusion and the conflict of the modern consumerist society and question the value creation within ar t
and society. By transforming the distributional utilitarian and peripheral object – packaging – into an actual object of itself, an
ar twork, and another insignificant valueless object, he purposefully mocks the social system that we engulf and entrap ourselves.
The ar tist intervenes with the preconceived cognitive sign system and transposes what is considered to be invaluable to
valueless. Fur thermore, by allowing the viewers to witness its imperfection and dysfunctionality as an object of depiction upon
close inspection, he derides on the process and the idea of value creation. Everything is merely an integument of an integument,
an illusion of a disillusion. What remains of his objects is in fact the key components in his works - the ephemeral contemporary
lives and their minute traces left behind with the packaging where diverse narratives unfold. These images and objects are the
fragmented traces that lead us to recollect and introspect past, life, memory and origin, like a black and white old photograph
that pushes us far back to beyond.
Kim Hyunjun (b.1978) received MFA and BFA at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. He has exhibited widely in UK and Korea
such as Saatchi Gallery London, Kumho Museum Seoul, Seoul Museum of Ar t, Gyeonggi Museum of Ar t, Insa Ar t Center among
others. He has been awarded with 29th Joongang Fine Ar ts Prize.
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KIm HYUNJUN
Side Tray | cardboard | 85 x 150 x 70 cm | 2012
AR
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bo
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| 2007
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6x500ml | card
bo
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| 2009
ALL NATURAL | cardboard | 30 x 40 x 17 cm | 2011
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Ultimate Torch | cardboard | 15 x 18 x 9 cm | 2011
Kim Younghun’s ar tistic language speaks the nostalgia and the anxiety of civilisation from the uncer tainty and discontinuity
of life, fear of technology and the loss of humanity through his painterly surfaces. The complex entanglement of his personal
experience of reality and vir tual reality becomes personified on the surface through the reconstruction of images from both
worlds. Deriving from his journalist background during the transitional period from analogue to digital, his paintings question the
media and the technology and how it affected contemporary culture and lives. Organically amalgamating with exuberant colours
of psychological wavelength inspired from brain and electronic waves, dissembled body par ts suspended in the air and rainbow
like clouds delineate current manipulative and destructive social media and the world. Spontaneous at times and constructional
simultaneously, he crosses the boundary between abstraction and figuration and reality and fiction. “I depict detached and
fragmented bodies to show the aging body of our evanescent mortal lives amongst existential uncer tainty and obsolescence of
memory.”
Kim Younghun (b.1964) received MFA at Chelsea College of Ar ts and Design, London a diploma at Goldsmith, London and BFA
at Hongik University, Seoul. He has exhibited internationally such as Sungkok Ar t Museum Seoul, Cité Internationale des Ar ts
Gallery Paris, 271 Höherweg Studio, Düsseldorf, Ingolstadt City Gallery, Ingolstadt, Gwangju Museum of Ar t, Grande Halle de
La Villette Paris among others.
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KIm YOUNGHUN
Cloud Map-p1003 | oil on canvas | 227 x 181 cm | 2010
Cloud Map-Presents-p1008 | oil on l inen | 130 x 324 cm (diptych) | 2010
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Cloud Map-p1001 | oil on l inen | 162 x 130 cm | 2010
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Cloud Map-p1002 | oil on canvas | 181 x 227 cm | 2010
Electronic Cloud-p1104 | oil on canvas | 130.5 x 162 cm | 2011
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Electronic Cloud-p1105 | oil on canvas | 146 x 112 cm | 2011
Han Jisoc’s thinly applied layers of abstract paintings are the depiction of his innermost thoughts fabricated from the continuous
sedimentation of diverse social incidents and relationships collected from the media such as newspaper. Driven by the sense of
isolation and detachment, the ar tists erect his own imaginary world that he can reside and be consoled through these abundant
narratives recorded in his subconscious. Before long, this fantasy becomes his identity and he metamorphoses it onto the canvas
through various layers of floating abstraction. Wittgenstein once mentioned the impossibility in grasping the essence nonetheless
of our endeavour to depict the world through utmost worldly knowledge and information through language. Similarly, Han
believes that the figurative representation prevents one from approaching to the essence. He splashes, drags and drips, catching
the spontaneous image that arises from the canvas, whilst, various narratives come, go and transform. His unconsciously painted
layers of abstractions come to being on the eyes of the beholders indexically cueing from their own experiences, memories
and images. The abstractions before your eyes are the stories of your life. The infinite interpretability is the world we live in and
opening up this possibility is his way to connect back with it.
Han Jisoc (b.1971) received MFA at Chelsea College of Ar t and Design, London and BFA at Hongik University, Seoul. He
exhibited widely in Korea and UK such as Tate Britain London, Cite Internationale des Ar ts Paris, Seoul Museum of Ar t,
Hangaram Art Museum, Busan Cultural Centre, Kunstraum T27 Berlin among others.
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HAN JISOC
The Tr iangle | oil on l inen | 260 x 400 cm | 2011-12
Untitled 100923-329001 | oil on l inen | 130 x 162 cm | 2010
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Untitled 100927-729001 | oil on l inen | 130 x 162 cm | 2010
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Untitled 100925-529001 | oil on l inen | 130 x 162 cm | 2010
Untitled | oil on l inen | 117 x 91 cm | 2010-12
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Tension | oil on l inen | 73 x 60.5 cm | 2012
Daylight | oil on canvas | 60.5 x 73 cm | 2012
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Star | oil on canvas | 60 x 45 cm | 2012
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KIm HYUNJUN (b.1978)
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Depar tment of ar t, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
2004 BFA, Major of Sculpture, Division of Fine Ar ts, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Present or Present, Skape Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 The light thing, KUMHO Museum, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Group Exhibition, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2011 The Korean Miracle: A Cultural Evolution, Asia House, London, UK
Summer Show, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
The Purpose of Life, Pohang Museum of Steel Ar t, Pohang, Korea
2010 Ar tist’s production, Seoul museum of ar t, Seoul, Korea
Save the ear th, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
The beginning of love, Ryuhwarang, Seoul, Korea
Greenlovebrown, Green & Brown, Seoul, Korea
Fantastic Gardens, Sungsan Ar ts Hall, Choung Won, Korea
Chamber of Secrets, ART2021, Seoul, Korea
2009 BAD BOYS HERE and NOW, Gyeonggi Museum of Ar t, Seoul, Korea
City- net Asia, seoul museum of ar t, Seoul, Korea
Moving Ar t, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
2008 Wonder Brand, Ganaar t Forumspace, Seoul, Korea
Fictional Reality, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
Up to the minute, Korea ar t Center, Busan, Korea
Propose7 vol.3, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
The Battle of Taste, Gallery Sangsang Madang, Seoul, Korea
2007 The 29th Joongang Fine Ar ts Prize, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Ar ts Center, Seoul, Korea
2006 The Jackpot, Gallery Sinhan, Seoul, Korea
Wish List, Insa Ar t Center, Seoul, Korea
2005 Space Cocktail, Gallery Space Cell, Seoul, Korea
Passages in modern sculpture, Ulsan Ar ts Center, Ulsan, Korea
2004 The Road, Gallery Moro, Seoul, Korea
Flying, Gallery My ar t, Seoul, Korea
Sangsang Relay in Club, No.5 Gallery Gwangju biennale, Gwangju, Korea
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KIm YOUNGHUN (b.1964)
EDUCATION
2008 MFA, Chelsea College of Arts and Design, University of Arts London, UK
2007 Gold Smiths University, London, UK
1992 BFA , Fine Art, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Group Exhibition, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Cloud Map, Nouvo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Cloud Map, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea
2010 Electonic Nostalgia: Broken Dream, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003 271 Höherweg Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ingolstadt City Gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany
2002 Espace ICARE, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
2001 Cité Internationale des arts gallery, Paris, France
1997 Dark Side of the Moon, Woong-Jun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Jang-Heung, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, Korea
Transformed Human, Space K, Gwangju, Korea
The Secret, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
A Secret, the Margin of Error, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2011 Back to the Future, Alternative Art Space IPO, Seoul, Korea
The Secret, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
From a Distance, Keep a Distance, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
31 Emerging Artists, Gallery Forest, Seoul, Korea
Pity on Utopia, Art Space LOO, Seoul, Korea
2010 Art Actually, Gallery Kunstdoc, Seoul, Korea
Electronic Nostalgia, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
Art Share, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Over the Rainbow, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2009 Digital/Multiple Emotion, Sejul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Nomadic Project (Time and Space), Dalanzadgad City useum, Gobi, Mongolia
Defamiliarization by Anna Air project, Nolias Gallery, London, UK
Condensation 2009, Bodhi Gallery, London, UK
2008 4482, Oxo Tower, Barge house, London, UK
Condensation, Desima gallery, London, UK
2007 4482, Kingston Business Park, London, UK
2003 For My Daughter’s Daughter, Paris project room, Paris, France
Kim Young Hun & Moon Byung Tak, Ingolstadt City gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany
2002 Kim Young Hun & Christelle Spano, Paris Project Room, Paris, France
Nature cult, Avelines Museum, Saint-Cloud, Paris, France
Waldkunstphad (Forest Art Path), Darmstadt International Symposium,
Darmstadt, Germany
Jeune Création 2002, Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France
2001 It’s a Wonderful world-sol, mur, temps, Espace artsenal, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Un Certain Regard sur la Nature, Abbatiale de Bernay, France
0 + X, Espace Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, France
Energy Raum, Dreieich City Gallery, Germany
Jeune Création 2001, Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France
Cité Internationale des arts gallery, Paris, France
Sol / Mur / Temps, Korea Culture Center, Paris, France
2000 Fiestalux, Rue de Pont Neuf, Paris, France
Media Art 21- Virtually Yours, Sejong gallery, Seoul, Korea
Cité Internationale des arts gallery, Paris, France
1999 ‘99 Environmental Art Festival, Kwanghwa Mun Station, Seoul, Korea
For The 2000th Tears, Chung-Dam art festival, Seoul, Korea
Joongang Art Festival, Ho-Am Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Open Space - Factory and Video, Sam-Ae Company, Icheon, Korea
Blasphemy-Dying to be Cruel, Monstrous, Strange, Total Museum of Contemporary Art,
Seoul, Korea
1998 Inchon Multimedia Art Festival, Inchon Art Center, Korea
1997 Our Cultural Legacy - View Point of Today, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Dismantlement and revival- D.M.Z, National Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Body as Text, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1996 The Stream of The New Generation: Technology and Anti-Technology, National Art
Center, Seoul, Korea
Good Morning Mr. Stomach, Gihon river project, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
1995 Joongang Fine Arts Prize, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1994 Review 1995, Today, Gallery Doll, Seoul, Korea
New Prospect ‘94, Moran Museum, Masuk, Korea
1993 New Space-The New, Seokyung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Human, Body, Sexuality, gallery Doll, Seoul, Korea
Female-Pain, Ba-Tang-Kol Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 Dong-A Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Kya-Chun, Korea
Light-The Trace of The Power, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
New Form ‘92, Yoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
PRESENTATION
2002 Le Cuve Multimedia Center, Issy-les-moulineaux, France
AWARDS
2003 Hoherweg Studio Program, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996 Freeman Fellowship, Vermont, USA
1995 Grand Prize, Joong Ang Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
RESIDENCY
2000- 2002 SAMSUNG Paris Studio Program, SAMSUNG Culture Foundation, Cité
Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
COLLECTIONS
2000 Kimchi Museum, Seoul, Korea
1995 SAMSUNG Museum, Seoul, Korea
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EDUCATION
2006 MA, Fine Ar t, Chelsea College of Ar t and Design, London, UK
1998 BFA, Fine Ar t, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 White-Hot, Gallery b’one, Seoul, Korea
2010 Out of Sight, UNC Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 I’ve Got You, Weibang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 My Epitaph, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 Self-por trait, Gana Ar t Space, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Group Exhibition, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Busan Biennale special exhibition, Busan Cultural Centre, Busan, Korea
Noegenesis, Gallery BK, Seoul, Korea
Korea Tomorrow, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Ar t Centre, Seoul, Korea
2011 Two persons show (The Vanishing), EON Gallery, Seoul, Korea
I’m a painter, UNC Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Pintmaking & Information, Seoul Museum of Ar t, Seoul, Korea
2010 Eco Zone, Kunstraum T27, Berlin, Germany
Mapping Mindscape, K. & Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Star Wars-Episode 3, UNC gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Asia Panic, Gwangju Biennale Centre, Gwangju, Korea
Print Your Life, Seoul Museum of Ar t, Seoul, Korea
Beyond The Lind, UNC Gallery, Seoul, Korea
P.E.A.R.L, Gallery Pakyoung, Paju, Korea
2008 Welcome Home Par ty, Sun Contemporary Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4482, Barge house, Oxo Tower, London, UK
Editon, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2007 Fold 07, performance at Tate Britain, London, UK
Shows, Ar t Futures, Studio Glass Gallery, London, UK
The Open, King’s park studio, London, UK
Nothing To Declare, The Gap Gallery (project space), Chelsea College of Ar t & Design,
London, UK
2006 Still Dynamics, Jerwood Space, London, UK
Orioccid, Cite Internationale des Ar ts, Paris, France
An Event In London, The plum Tree, London, UK
Progressions, The Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Ar t & Design, London, UK
Ontological Space, Chugye University, Seoul, UK
AWARDS
2011 Selected Ar tist, Soma Museum Archive Ar tist
2009 Selected Ar tist, Public Ar t (sponsored by Monthly Public Ar t Magazine)
2000 Excellent Prize, Seoul Space International Print Biennial
(sponsored by Space Group and Seoul Museum of Ar t)
COLLECTIONS
LG Group, Seoul, Korea
Korea Development Bank, Seoul, Korea
Green Cross, Seoul, Korea
Pakyoung Collection, Seoul, Korea
Space Group. Seoul, Korea
This catalogue is published by HADA Contemporary to accompany the exhibition:
HAN JISOC, KIm HYUNJUN, KIm YOUNGHUNGROUP EXHIBITION
7 FEBRUARY - 3 mARCH 2013
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