In Between Imagination & Reality
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Times Square hosts two of South Korea’s leading contemporary sculptors, Ji Yong Ho and Yi Hwan Kwon, in this rare joint exhibition in the mall’s public open space. Ji is famous for his amazing larger-than-life animal sculptures made from old tires, while Yi’s sculptures of men are world-famous for their disturing and confusing proportions (remember his “squashed” man scupture at the Art Fair entrance last year?).Through Aug 22. Times Square Open Piazza and Atrium, 1 Matheson St., Causeway Bay.
Am happy that moment I was there and got the chance to see the overall thing. Pictures below might not that happening and real, but the one they did was really amazed!!
The animal below was known as Mutants that are reborn in abnormal forms and transformed through synthetic variations
Korean store many kinds of ferment sauces in the traditional sauce jar called Jangdock. Those sauces are used to season the Korean traditional dishes. For Korean woman, it is important job to take care of it and hand it down to the next generation. There is a place called Jangdockdae where many different sizes of sauce jars are gathered together. Jangdockae calls family-oriented memories for most of Koreans. When I saw the Jangdockdae covered by snow, I thought of the family enudring winter. My work reveals three generation family consisted of grandparents, parents and their children. I modeled my friend's family for my piece.
Food bearing a mother's love is affectionate. The taste of her food depends on soy sauce. Just as the tase of soy sauce has been passed down through generations, family love continues to flow - Hwan Kwon Yi
A women and a postbox are made crooked in the wind. This is like an empty heart, a lonely autumn breeze, and a desolate yearning wind - Hwan Kwon Yi
The film "They Call Me Trinity" that I had watched when I was an elementary school boy was different from other serioud cowboy movies. Trinity, the male lead was witty, and faster than anyone else at shooting. As I grew up, I wanted to be such an adult. Though my work I come closer to my dream of entering a cinematic world - Hwan Kwon Yi
Leon is a hit man, but has a childlike aspect while Matilda is a kid, but is familiar in wordly affairs and thus sees the world pessimistically. Appropriating a scene, Matilda learns to assemble a pistol with Leon. I draw out a romantic feeling from these incongruous characters - Hwan Kwon Yi
ps: His distorted, stretched out sculptures are a restoration of his imagination as a child through watching enlarged images on television and movie screens. Although his subjects are representations of the common man, his subjects are recreated through distortion. This effect simultaneously creates an ambivalent sense of familiarity and shock.
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