Seong Gil Heo
dal 27/5/2013 al 14/6/2013
Segnalato da
27/5/2013
Seong Gil Heo
Elga Wimmer, New York
The City. Heo's ink on Korean paper paintings and mixed media works focus on cities devoid of human presence. Humanity is implied through his use of street signs, traffic lights, telephone booths, and electric wiring.
Curated by Suechung Koh
Heo’s ink on Korean paper paintings and mixed media works focus on
cities devoid of human presence. Humanity is implied through his use
of street signs, traffic lights, telephone booths, and electric
wiring. Heo’s drawings of buildings appear so perfect leaving us
with little evidence of both his hand and society’s existence. And
yet, Heo’s cities are not bereft of feeling as one would expect of
sterile environments. Present are electric wires that crisscross at
many points that symbolize communication between people. Present are
traffic lights that imply cars, post office boxes that allude to older
forms of communication and also shop signs, street signs, traffic
symbols and directions in the artist’s native Korean language.
Hyppodamian city plans based on the mathematical grid characterized by
order and regularity are evident in Heo’s cities when he’s
painting New York or other western cities. But, when depicting his
native Seoul, he paints it, as is; one building above another, or
abutting, as in the beehive style of many middle-eastern cities. This
is partly due to the mountainous origin of the Korean topography that
also contains lots of steps leading up its steeply built levels. The
buildings although not that high, because they are set on mountainous
terrain, take on the look of the peaks of the high backgrounds.
Seong Gil Heo was born and raised in Daegu, South Korea and earned his
MFA in Asian Painting at this city’s Kye-myung University Graduate
School. He has exhibited in Istanbul, HongKong, Singapore, China and
this will be his first show in New York. He has planned a subsequent
solo exhibition that will be held at Tenri Cultural Institute, New
York, this coming December.
THE CITY. 2011, Acrylic on Canvas, 51.2 x 88 in.
For More Information:
ElgaWimmer PCC, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 310, New York City, N.Y.
10011, 212. 206.0006
at Elgawimmer@gmail.com . Curator: Suechung Koh at pariskoh@gmail.com,
201.724.7077
Opening reception on Thursday May 30th from 6-8 PM
Elga Wimmer
526 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor- New York
Free admission