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Exhibitions at I-MYU Gallery, 23 Charlotte Road

Landslide at I-MYU

17-Nov-08

Landslide at I-MYU

Notice of I-MYU's upcoming group show: LANDSLIDE GORDON CHEUNG / MASAKATSU KONDO / SEA HYUN LEE 19 November – 20 December I-MYU PROJECTS is pleased to present LANDSLIDE, a group show that brings together the work of artists, Gordon Cheung, Masakatsu Kondo and Sea Hyun Lee, who working internationally each have strong links to Eastern Asia, to China, Japan and South Korea respectively. Their work individually and collectively informs a site of landscape that draws on historical representations of landscape from the East and West as well as current social and political interchanges between its cultures and economies. Gordon Cheung’s paintings create spaces of fictive encounter that draw on the lucid nostalgia of multiple layers of cultural motifs that include comic books, cinema and computer ...
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I-MYU goes West

06-Nov-08

I-MYU goes West

As part of Asian Art in London I-MYU Projects is holding a special exhibition in Mayfair's Cork Street entitled Of Origin and Future. The press release follows. 30 October - 8 November Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 30 Cork Street, W1S 3NG. Asian Contemporary Art is not a combination of Asian Art and Contemporary Art: it is not Contemporary Art with an Asian cultural orientation, either through subject matter or style, it is Art by Asian people engaged with a universal language of Contemporary Art. As traditionally the ASIA WEEK NEW YORK has opened around Amory Show, so ASIAN ART IN LONDON (AAL) is held in the aftermath of the Frieze Art Fair. This gives an opportunity to encounter Korean Contemporary Art during the ...
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Beautiful Fake at I-MYU

19-Sep-08

Beautiful Fake at I-MYU

I-MYU's first show of the Autumn is Beautiful Fake - a solo exhibition by Zinoo Park, who studied design at the Royal College of Art. From the press release: I-MYU Projects is pleased to present works by Korean artist Zinoo Park. Crossing the borders between fine art and design, Zinoo Park constructs playful, subversive and confrontational work infused with popular culture references that question ideas of function and aesthetics. Working consistently with repeated motifs, most notably that of a Coca Cola bottle, Park not only draws in originating pop works from the mid 50s, but pulls iconic designs into a new era of consumption and high street obsession. Many of his works are marked as ‘fake’ adopting designer systems of logo to ...
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“Cantilever Left” at I-MYU

08-Jul-08

“Cantilever Left” at I-MYU

A notice of July's show: SANGBIN IM / HELENA BEN-ZENOU / YUJIN KANG 9 JULY -9 AUGUST 2008 Cantilever Left offers imbalance to systems of structure. The works presented redress architectural considerations of the urban environment, uprooting the historic past within the incongruous homogeny of the modern day global city. The works collectively unhinge considerations of urban space, reconciling it as still image; the works address an architecture of multifaceted materiality and optical distortion. SANGBIN IM resolves through digital manipulation single photographic images. The works are derived from photographs taken by the artist whilst travelling within the environment that becomes the pictorial subject of her work. There is performance, process and spectacle to the work, and the outcome of its performative underpinning becomes evident ...
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Impossible landscapes

07-Jul-08

Impossible landscapes

Recently in London we’ve seen two seemingly very different responses to traditional Korean and Chinese landscape painting. In March we had Lim Taek (임택) at I-MYU; just finished at Union we had Lee Sea-hyun (이세현). Both artists portray the familiar mountains, the occasional ancient pavilion dotting the landscape. But Lim’s mountains are simple blocks of white against a rich blue sky, and while Lee respects the conventions and has a blank background against which his carefully delineated peaks are set, he defies conventions in another way by presenting his landscapes in a ghostly red. Considering the two responses side by side allows some interesting similarities and contrasts to be highlighted. Left: Lim Taek: Transferred Landscape. Right: Lee Sea-hyun: Between Red Stand in ...
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Secondary Sensation at I-MYU

16-Jun-08

Secondary Sensation at I-MYU

Details of I-MYU's June exhibition SECONDARY SENSATION Sungjin Kim / Jihye Park / Yujung Chang 12 June – 7 July 2008 I-MYU-Projects is pleased to present Secondary Sensation a group show of works by emerging Korean artists, Sungjin Kim, Jihye Park and Yujung Chang. The works introduce an idea of dislocation, fiction and process layered as mismatched entities, repetitions that render the representation of an image as a 'secondary sensation' or aftershock, an echo of a synthetic original. SUNGJIN KIM'S large scale paintings point to a highly charged sensory aspect of the human body, the lips. The works have a hyperrealism derived from their photographic source, and a hyper artificiality created by it. Heightened by close cropping the works move beyond the parameters of the ...
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I Don’t Speak Very Much

13-May-08

I Don’t Speak Very Much

A notice of I-MYU's May show, starting this Thursday. I Don’t Speak Very Much Kijune Park / Rui Matsunaga / Miho Sato 15 May – 7 June 2008 Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6pm or by appointment I-MYU Projects presents I Don’t Speak Very Much, an exhibition of new works by Korean artist Kijune Park and Japanese born artists Rui Matsunaga and Miho Sato. The works are drawn together by a reduction of visual language and a quiet consolidation of personal and collective cultural drift. The statement ‘I Don’t Speak Very Much’ implicates the artist, the viewer and the artwork, turning each to the subject and consideration of the title. In so doing it unhinges a cultural landscape in which personal and collective experience are ...
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Of The Outer World at I-MYU

02-Apr-08
Of The Outer World 10 -- 29 April 2008 Zadok Ben-David / Duck Yong Kim Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm or by appointment I-MYU-Projects is pleased to announce Of The Outer World, the fifth exhibition at its Charlotte Road gallery. Bringing together the work of British-Israeli artist, Zadok Ben-David with that of Korean artist Duck Yong Kim, the show draws on two worlds of a very different order. Marked between these radically different outcomes are propositions of slowness, of poetic order and detailed observation. Of the Outer World touches at the margins of perception, it makes us aware that our connection to the spaces that we inhabit, physically and psychologically, are often abstract in structure, and that often what we register is precisely what we recognise from ...
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Around the Clock at I-MYU

06-Mar-08
Keeping up their hectic pace of a new show every month, Yu Eun-bok and Im Jeong-ae announce their latest exhibition: AROUND THE CLOCK 7 March-- 24 March 2008 Taek Lim / Yutaka Inagawa Tuesday-Saturday 10-6pm or by appointment AROUND THE CLOCK brings together the work of Asian artists Yutaka Inagawa and Taek Lim in an exhibition that explores the role of displaced imagery, dislodged from time and place and pushed through both the political and the hyper-real. These are the cut-and-paste landscapes of contemporary fiction; fantastical they are ungrounded and uncompromising. Taek Lim constructs bold and awkward compositions that span 'the clock', removed from time and abridged from place. The sun and moon appear side by side in the daytime of a cobalt blue sky / ...
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Two flower painters at I-MYU

19-Feb-08
FORGET ME NOT: Works by Yeon Soo Ha and Bon-A Koo 1 February -- 2 March 2008, I-MYU Gallery, 23 Charlotte Road EC2A 3PB Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm or by appointment The work of Ha Yeonsoo and Koo Bona currently on show at I-MYU both have nature as their subject, but almost could not be further apart from each other. Koo's work seems steeped in the world of Choson dynasty literati painting, replacing the more traditional trees with grasses, flowers and ferns as subjects. With very sparing use of colour to highlight a blossom, her paintings are predominantly black and white -- or rather, shades of grey and cream. For the white space in her paintings contain almost as much interest as the remainder: layers of paint, ...
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Forget-me-not at I-MYU

23-Jan-08
I-MYU Projects present their third exhibition since opening near Old Street towards the end of last year. One thing I like about the I-MYU gallery is the quality of their press releases. For someone as unversed in art appreciation as me, their materials always seem both intelligent and intelligible, informative without being too high-brow, and they enhance the viewing of the works when you get to the gallery. So I make no apology for simply posting the press release verbatim. FORGET ME NOT 1 February-- 2 March 2008 Yeon Soo Ha / Bon-A Koo Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm or by appointment IMYU-Projects is pleased to announce Forget Me Not, an exhibition by Korean artists Yeon Soo Ha and Bon-A Koo. The show takes its title from the name ...
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From East to East: Time Space Extension

04-Dec-07

From East to East: Time Space Extension

Arcadia A group exhibition with Korean and British artists: Dae Hun Kwon, Victoria Hall and Jin Kim 22 Novemeber 2007 - 12 January 2008 I-MYU Projects, 23 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PB Review by Beccy Kennedy Globalisation theory uses the term "time-space compression" ((Harvey, David (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.)) to elucidate the concept of a new world without distinct nations, where borders are malleable and hours are reconfigured into seconds through the single tap of a plastic key, where won transmogrify to dollars through the single swipe of a plastic card. Each single transaction is at once plural. Each plurality is a reoccurrence of regime but not of a moment. The art works ...
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To the furthest verge

17-Oct-07
I-MYU's new gallery space was launched last week with a show by two Korean and one Korean-American artist. The gallery itself is situated in the slightly unfashionable north-east fringes of the City. Unfashionable at least from the perspective of us City types, but if your eyes stray slightly northwards on the map from I-MYU's street the nearest "village" is trendy Hoxton, home of a lively arts scene. The artists exhibiting in this opening show all address the past in various ways -- in fact Traditional yet Contemporary can almost be seen as the theme for many Korean artists over the past forty years. Yet they also explore other aspects. Debbie Han's work on display falls into two categories: ceramics and photography. In ...
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I-MYU brings emerging Korean artists to London

03-Oct-07
I-MYU projects celebrates the opening of its gallery in style this month. I-MYU's first project in London was the jointly curated show at Ritter/Zamet, Abandoned Protocol. October sees the opening of its gallery on the eastern outskirts of the City, at 23 Charlotte Road, EC2A 3PB [Map]. I-MYU promotes emerging Asian artists, with a particular focus on Korean artists. For its first exhibition in its own gallery space, I-MYU has assembled Debbie Han, Ji-Yeun Hong and Dong Won Shin in a group show entitled To the furthest verge. Here's the press release (with additional images for each featured artist from I-MYU's site) This exhibition pushes established convention to the edge. Three emerging Korean artists, Debbie Han, Ji-Yeun Hong and Dong Won Shin, challenge and ...
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