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Artemercadoarte gallery AMA
Presents
Cho Yong Hwa.
Friday 1st June 2012 8pm.
Artemercadoarte Gallery AMA, Venezuela 458.
Cho Yong Hwa was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1961. He studied drawing at the Young Artist´s Association in Seoul, before coming to Buenos Aires to study painting and drawing, and later lithography. He gained notoriety as an engraver in the 1990´s, winning competitions such as First Engraving Prize, “XXVI Salón de Otoño de San Fernando”. Buenos Aires (1990), First Prize. Engraving Acquisition, “Salón de Grabado Correo Argentino”. Buenos Aires (1995) and 3rd Prize, National Printmaking Salon, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (2009). He has exhibited extensively in both solo and group shows.
Un susto, Acrílico s/papel, 36 x 28 cm, 2003
(A scare)
Although he started his career as a print maker, Cho Yong Hwa is not limited to this medium but utilizes multiple methods of expression. His work is diverse, with each series being radically different from the last.
Using heightened perspective similar to that of a graphic novel, Cho Yong Hwa´s series of pigs is visually arresting. The series, though created primarily through the medium of paint, retains the strong lines and shallow picture plain more often associated with print.
The work is not based on the farm animals themselves, but rather on carousels found in Buenos Aires. The paintings retain the strong vibrant colours and the urgency of the fairground. These paintings are not merely of children´s playthings, but instead they present an adults view of such things. Not content to repeat the same actions and achieve the same results, as is the nature of a carousel, the paintings take on a darker meaning. The pigs lunge at the viewer, tortured and squealing, almost reaching out of the painting.Yet the pigs are depicted, not on a decorative fairground carousel, but instead emerging from abstraction, which leads to a sense of dislocation.
Then came the magazine series. Cho Yong Hwa used decolletage to partially unveil the naked and semi naked bodies in men´s magazine Playboy.
While usually considered to contain anatomical beauty on to which men gaze, in this series the magazines themselves become objects of beauty. Cho Yong Hwa peels back the pages, like petals of a flower opening, to reveal their saucy content. The shape in which Cho Yong Hwa carves away the pages of the magazine is no accident, as it represents lingam (the female genitals, Sanskrit).
It is also no coincidence that Cho Yong Hwa chose Playboy, the most internationally recognisable men´s magazine, on which to base this series. Into these beautifully decolletaged pieces Cho Yong Hwa carves an almond shape, an eye. This is a reminder of the purpose of these magazines, the thousands of eyes that gaze upon these women´s bodies.
Most recently Cho Yong Hwa´s art taken another direction. Utilizing the Asian tradition of kite making, Cho Yong Hwa created an instillation of flags depicting multiple Argentine flags,
Foto de la instalación en el Centro Ctral Recoleta, 2011
Presents
Cho Yong Hwa.
Friday 1st June 2012 8pm.
Artemercadoarte Gallery AMA, Venezuela 458.
Cho Yong Hwa was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1961. He studied drawing at the Young Artist´s Association in Seoul, before coming to Buenos Aires to study painting and drawing, and later lithography. He gained notoriety as an engraver in the 1990´s, winning competitions such as First Engraving Prize, “XXVI Salón de Otoño de San Fernando”. Buenos Aires (1990), First Prize. Engraving Acquisition, “Salón de Grabado Correo Argentino”. Buenos Aires (1995) and 3rd Prize, National Printmaking Salon, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (2009). He has exhibited extensively in both solo and group shows.
Un susto, Acrílico s/papel, 36 x 28 cm, 2003
(A scare)
Although he started his career as a print maker, Cho Yong Hwa is not limited to this medium but utilizes multiple methods of expression. His work is diverse, with each series being radically different from the last.
Using heightened perspective similar to that of a graphic novel, Cho Yong Hwa´s series of pigs is visually arresting. The series, though created primarily through the medium of paint, retains the strong lines and shallow picture plain more often associated with print.
The paintings almost resemble Lithographs in their construction.Cho Yong Hwa´s work achieves a balance between the representational and the abstract, offsetting the acute perspective of the animal, with an abstract, almost flat, background.
Oro Puro, Acrílico s/papel, 27 x 30 cm, 2003
(Pure Gold)
The work is not based on the farm animals themselves, but rather on carousels found in Buenos Aires. The paintings retain the strong vibrant colours and the urgency of the fairground. These paintings are not merely of children´s playthings, but instead they present an adults view of such things. Not content to repeat the same actions and achieve the same results, as is the nature of a carousel, the paintings take on a darker meaning. The pigs lunge at the viewer, tortured and squealing, almost reaching out of the painting.Yet the pigs are depicted, not on a decorative fairground carousel, but instead emerging from abstraction, which leads to a sense of dislocation.
II, de la serie Play the Game, Revista recortada c/pintura acrílica, 2006
Then came the magazine series. Cho Yong Hwa used decolletage to partially unveil the naked and semi naked bodies in men´s magazine Playboy.
While usually considered to contain anatomical beauty on to which men gaze, in this series the magazines themselves become objects of beauty. Cho Yong Hwa peels back the pages, like petals of a flower opening, to reveal their saucy content. The shape in which Cho Yong Hwa carves away the pages of the magazine is no accident, as it represents lingam (the female genitals, Sanskrit).
It is also no coincidence that Cho Yong Hwa chose Playboy, the most internationally recognisable men´s magazine, on which to base this series. Into these beautifully decolletaged pieces Cho Yong Hwa carves an almond shape, an eye. This is a reminder of the purpose of these magazines, the thousands of eyes that gaze upon these women´s bodies.
Most recently Cho Yong Hwa´s art taken another direction. Utilizing the Asian tradition of kite making, Cho Yong Hwa created an instillation of flags depicting multiple Argentine flags,
and suspending them from the ceiling of Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. The physical instillation is arresting and beautiful.
But this is a light instillation as well as a physical one. The strong light, which filters through the kites, forms delicate shadows on the white gallery walls, giving the room an almost spiritual feel, akin to a church.
Foto de la instalación en el Centro Ctral Recoleta, 2011
In my opinion, Cho Yong Hwa is the embodiment of an artist.
The ease in which he converts from one medium to another is astonishing. His style is equally fluid, which is what makes his work so damn good.
His works transcends the medium to communicate a feeling which pulses off the walls and fills the empty gallery space.
The ease in which he converts from one medium to another is astonishing. His style is equally fluid, which is what makes his work so damn good.
His works transcends the medium to communicate a feeling which pulses off the walls and fills the empty gallery space.
Emma Burke.
24 May 2012.
24 May 2012.
