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Myung Keun KohThe artistMyung Keun Koh complex constructions of photographic laminates combine sculpture, architecture and photography, yet establish an independent medium of their own. Koh’s laminated-photos are unusual and magical. In these wondrous “boxes”, as the artist casually calls, a sense of architectural depth intersects with that of the two-dimensional picture plane. Translucent photographic images repeat, overlap and resonate through the constructed space of variously shaped boxes. These illusionary and illusionistic sculptures dream a dream of surface. Violating but also appropriating the principles of two-dimensional photographic representation as well as the spatial manipulation of sculpture, the surface claims space and the image breathes life. The greater charm of the artist’s luminous boxes is, however, not to be found in his innovative method alone, but in the classicism of the themes the artist has incorporated. The weight of stone is denied and multiple iterations of human form are suspended in pattern. In his works, Koh has transformed solid, heavy forms into works that are light and ethereal. Myung Keun Koh was born in 1964 in Korea and educated both at Seoul National University and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His works have been shown in Cologne, at the Sorbonne in Paris, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, New York and San Francisco. Currently, Myung Keun Koh is a professor at Kookmin University of Fine Art in Seoul. Graduated from Dept. of Sculpture, Seoul National University with B.F.A. degree in February, 1987 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 LEEAHN Gallery, Daegu, Korea GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 DC frey Norris Gallery, Washington DC |
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