Video: On the taut strings. 3D sculptures from the String Mirrors series
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Hundreds of elastic stretched strings, put together, can create amazing and strikingly realistic images: portraits of people, their faces, hands, eyes … This art has long been practiced by a South Korean artist Hong Sung Chul: The talented author creates layered compositions by pulling specially dyed strings between two platforms, and as a result of these operations, a three-dimensional image is obtained, which changes depending on the angle at which it is viewed. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Hong Sun Chul considers his art to be a peculiar way of communicating with the public, tries to provoke the viewer into dialogue, to involve them in the creative process. Therefore, one of the parts of his exposition provides for the projection onto mirror strings of portraits of real people obtained from internal security cameras installed in the gallery. This is almost like peeping, as such images appear to be seen through the blinds on the windows. There is such a feeling as if you are watching someone's life from the side, from around the corner.
The exposition and the original sculptures created by the artist give some intimacy: the interlacing of the hands, which symbolize human closeness, the eyes - the mirrors of the soul, hugs. There is not a single picture as a whole, but this is not necessary: the viewer must "turn off" his vision, and "look" with feelings, emotions, the Korean artist is sure.
The exhibition of three-dimensional sculptures by Hong Sun Chul took place just the other day at the Singapore ART SEASONS gallery, becoming part of the general exposition of representatives of contemporary art from Asian countries.
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