Aggregations

Kwang-Young Chun recently came to Towson University to exhibit his show Aggregations, and to speak to the people there. I wasn't able to attend the talk but I did get a chance to look at his work and it is amazing. The amount of time that must have gone into every piece is incredible. Not only are they very large pieces, they are all made up of small (some are even really small) styrofoam wedges that are then wrapped in Korean mulberry paper that are then hand-tied with more Korean mulberry paper that he has twisted into string. The precision in the placement of each individual piece blows my mind. I was trying to take pictures but looking at them now, the photographs I have and the ones in the exhibit brochure can not do justice to the actual work itself.
My favorite piece that I saw of his was really more of two pieces side by side. They were two trapezoid-like shapes next to each other, one was inverted so it looked like if they were pushed together their shapes would fit together. They both had a range of colors that was kind of a gradient from white to a reddish/orange color. The color darkened in a gradual way with a few colors from each previous color slipping into the next darker color. Both pieces looked like they were made of long horizontal tiles that were all placed on top of one another. I hope that I am not explaining this is a completely confusing way, but it was so intricate but also so simple at the same time that it might have come off that way. Chun is an extremely talented artist who combines simplicity and intricacy, Korean history (with the mulberry paper) and art that can be enjoyed all over the world, creating remarkable works of art.

Here's a link to the show!! http://events.towson.edu/event/aggregations_paper_sculpture_by_kwang_young_chun?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=Towson+University

And some pics