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HONG Song-Do
| 1953 |
born in
Korea |
| 1983 |
B.F.A.
Art Department of Sculpture, College of Fine
Arts, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 1991 |
M. F. A. Department of Sculpture, Graduate
School of Pratt Institute, New York, USA |
| 1998 |
12th Sun Art Award |
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Solo Exhibitions - selection |
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| 2011 |
Davis Klemm Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2010 |
Erhard Witzel Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 2009 |
Tourist, Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea |
| 2005 |
Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea |
| 2002 |
Art
Space, Seoul, Korea |
| 1994 |
Art
Center, Seoul, Korea |
| 1991 |
Higins Hall, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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Group Exhibitions since 2002 -
selection |
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| 2008 |
pAn
Amsterdam art fair, Amsterdam RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Skape at aA, aA DESIGN MUSEUM, Seoul, Korea |
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SIPA, Seoul Art,
Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea |
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Art Amsterdam art fair, Amsterdam RAI,
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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First Step: New Art From Korea, Beijing Art
Seasons, Beijing, China |
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The reconstruction of Artwork, Gyeong-gi
Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea |
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First Step: New Art From Korea, Singapore Art Seasons, Singapore |
| 2007 |
'Korean Contemporary Photos of 10 Artists' exhibition, Hanmi Photo Museum,
Seoul, Korea |
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The
Phantom of Giant Man, Sejong Art Center, Seoul, Korea |
| 2005 |
'Between', Stuttgart Kunst Academy Museum, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2004 |
Contemporary Art, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea |
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Heyri Art Festival, Heyri Art Valley Paju, Korea |
| 2003 |
Charity, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea |
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Crossing 2003, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, USA |
| 2002 |
What is Sculpture, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea |
Hong Sung Do uses photography as a main
medium of his work, but he distinctively adds “sculptural dimension” into
it. It is noticeable that he makes reader of the photograph not a passive
interpreter of the mere “record of a subject,” but a dynamic “re-inventor”
of the photograph.
“Tourist” series are composed of the
photographs he took during his trips in Nepal, France, Italy and so on.
Sometimes they include common fashion shops or a motor showroom which seems
distant from a particular exotic appeal. They just look like snap-shots of
the places which he unintentionally took photographs of. However, paying
attention to the transformation that the artist adds to these photographs,
we come to realize these are not simply the exotic landscape pictures of
tourists.
The technical structure can be explained as
follows: The artist photographs the specific places such as a crowded
street, and then the same place (or persons) again after a while. Then he
cuts the areas with differences in the second photograph and collages them
onto the same area in the first photograph. However these collages are not
affixed minutely and neatly, they are rather cut in pieces, crumpled and
fixed with a rivet, which reinforces the process of three-dimensional
collage.
(Kim, Won-bang)
Blick in die Ausstellung
"Strings & Stripes" 10.06. bis 09.07.2010 Galerie Erhard Witzel
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