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No Wonjogyoje, but lots of bum cleavage

16-Feb-07

No Wonjogyoje, but lots of bum cleavage

You can't use refined language when it comes to Seunghee Kang's work. It's vibrant, lively, robust, and anything but refined. The colours leap out at you, the images full of fun but also somehow disturbing. And it's difficult to know what to make of them. The centrepiece of the "Odd Couple" show in Bermondsey is a traditional Korean screen. Except what's on the screen is anything but traditional. Instead of ink or colour on silk images of auspicious animals with flora symbolising fertility and longevity, it's colourful embroidery work, cartoon style. What's going on it's difficult to fathom, but it sure is fun trying to figure it out. On the back, something more questioning: the slogans, mottos, thoughts of a stranger in a ...
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The Odd Couple at Gallery Yujiro

15-Feb-07
Seunghee Kang, creator of the "farting Mrs Blair" embroidery at the Still Dynamics show at the Jerwood Space in December, is one half of the Odd Couple currently showing at Gallery Yujiro in Bermondsey. Here's the press release. "The Odd Couple": a joint solo exhibition of John Hughes and Seunghee Kang, both are odd, not particularly singularly but collectively they are an odd couple. Hughes was born in the UK, Kang in South Korea however both live and work in London, two different origins, two different practices. Hughes creates large-scale audio installations and Kang's meticulous Hogarthesque drawings, paintings and sculpture, yet both are similar in exploring the nature and function of narrative. They also share a strange and unusual take on ...
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Is it Mrs Blair who’s farting Hangul?

19-Dec-06
Prompted by Beccy Kennedy's thoughtful comments on the Still Dynamics exhibition, I popped over the river to the Jerwood Space yesterday lunchtime. The result is this somewhat tabloid counterblast -- hoping to prompt some more of you to go along to see it for yourself. The most eye-catching work in the show is Seunghee Kang's giant brightly coloured embroidery, extending the whole width of the room, mysteriously entitled Its wonderland for stranger. It's a work with a lot going on in it: a busy and distressing street scene with loads of iPods for sale in vending machines, and security cameras everywhere. In one of the shops on the other side of the street there appears to be a knife fight going ...
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Korean art: Unstoppable forces and immovable objects

17-Dec-06

Korean art: Unstoppable forces and immovable objects

Still Dynamics: The Korean Contemporary Art Show The Jerwood Space, 14-20 December Review by Beccy Kennedy The serene setting of the Jerwood Space provides the perfect offset for the vivid works of eleven Korean artists. With the exception of Kira Kim's light installation, I Love U, and Sangjun Roh's miniature, cardboard people, the works are surprisingly painterly for a contemporary art show, whilst being diverse in their approach to 2D. Yujin Kang's dazzling, dexterously painted scenes of swimming pools, including one which lurks, glimmering beneath the hatched yellow lines of a road, reflecting their shadow, (left) particularly stand out. Kang blends precision with fluidity, realism with random imagery, and beautifully captures the theme of the exhibition, staying still whilst moving forward, the contrasting ...
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