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A Family in Disguise at Union Teesdale

02-Oct-08

A Family in Disguise at Union Teesdale

Notice of an exhibition starting on Saturday at Union Teesdale Street: YU JINYOUNG / A FAMILY IN DISGUISE 4th October – 1st November 2008 Opening hours: contact the gallery for details UNION 94 Teesdale Street London E2 6PU UNION Teesdale Street is pleased to announce the solo exhibition A FAMILY IN DISGUISE by Yu Jinyoung, co-curated by Sunhee Choi. Yu Jinyoung’s work focuses on the family, developing from her previous works that reflect on the trapped human beings in society. She tries to reveal the fact that family tend to avoid discord and refuse to expose their true nature to others, instead projecting an image of happiness at all times. She seeks to look into the depth of the relationships within the family unit through its ...
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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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Union Gallery launches Sea Hyun Lee catalogue

18-Jun-08

Union Gallery launches Sea Hyun Lee catalogue

The Union Gallery behind Tate Modern has been showing Sea Hyun Lee's vivid red landscapes since last month. Katie Kitamura has been beavering away on a catalogue for the exhibition. That's now ready, giving an opportunity for a mid-show celebration: the catalogue will be launched at an evening event on 26 June, 6:00-9:00pm. The Union's press release follows: UNION is pleased to launch a new catalogue by Korean artist Sea Hyun Lee. Sea Hyun Lee’s paintings are a constant and obsessive shuffling of recurring fragments. His unmistakable series of landscapes are rendered in delicate but pervasive washes of red - large swaths of unmarked white meandering between islands of crimson land. The blank spaces are harshly set against the carefully detailed fragments ...
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Surrender your jeans — win a beer

16-Jul-07
Doesn't sound a very good deal, huh? But let me explain further. Korean artist Choi So-young specialises in creating work out of denim. She's going to be exhibiting at the Union Gallery in 2008... but she needs the raw materials to work with. So the deal is this: YOU can be part of a collaborative, interactive art-making making experience. Or something like that. Send in your jeans to the Union Gallery -- or any old denim articles you don't want any more -- and they will be transformed into a work of art. And YOU will be invited to the party celebrating the launch of the exhibition as a mark of gratitude. I know the Union Gallery does great parties. I went ...
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Kimchi juice: the art medium of the future

30-Sep-06
I went to the "Give me Shelter" exhibition at the Union Gallery one lunchtime this week, as it's only 15 minutes walk from my office. I'll be going back again. Possibly the easiest works to relate to are the biggest and the smallest. Hyungkoo Lee's skeletal coyote and roadrunner occupied a whole room, atmospherically lit. As for the smallest exhibits -- well, you could almost miss them: Dongwook Lee's tiny human figures, only a couple of inches high at most, mounted on little shelves here and there. The most sinister was a nude male figure with arms where the legs should be. There's some large-scale sculptural work (Osang Gwon - above right) which looks like ceramics but is in ...
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“Give me Shelter” at the Union Gallery

26-Sep-06
Thanks to Peter Corbishley who told me about this exhibition over a soju or two at the Anglo-Korean Society V&A evening. At the Union Gallery in Southwark there's an exhibition of works - sculpture and paintings - by five emerging Korean artists, Hyunjhin Baik, Suejin Chung, Osang Gwon, Dongwook Lee and Hyungkoo Lee. Above is a still from a Lee Hyung-koo installation - a skeletal Roadrunner in an eternal chase with a similarly skeletal Wile E. Coyote. Open six days a week (closed Sundays), the gallery website is here. As ever, it's now on my calendar, with links to the gallery site and google maps. Until November 28. Related posts:Union Gallery launches Sea Hyun Lee catalogue The Union Gallery behind Tate Modern has ...
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