He is broken thinking that canvas is flat.
He is literally bringing a new dimension to art with his folded portraits of women.
In his current work, geometric patterns conceal and reveal the women beneath, contorting their bodies into impossible shapes.
The shadows cast obscure parts of the artwork, giving the eye a place to rest.
In the portraits, the sharp edged paper is paradoxical to the soft curves and valleys of the women’s bodies, and this contrast is carried through the diverse elements of his work: hidden/exposed, abstract/figurative, flat/peaked, colorful/neutral, traditional/contemporary.
Osang Gwon has made it his quest to demolish the line that divides the medium of sculpture from that of photography. He accumulates photographs to build sculptural forms and he sets up sculptural forms to compose photographs.
He is a unique blend of photography and sculpture. He begins by extensively photographing his subjects, then attaching the photographs to plaster sculptures and molds. The result is a strange mix of two and thee dimensions.
His work raises important issues in sculpture: reality and representation of an image suggesting new definition of sculpture.
Mingi Jung
"Sewing machine is a play” – used as a motto of his work, and describing the very unusual name of artwork called sewing machine, artist Mingi Jung had a sewing machine drawing show.
"Sewing machine is a play” – used as a motto of his work, and describing the very unusual name of artwork called sewing machine, artist Mingi Jung had a sewing machine drawing show.
Painting with a needle as brush and thread as paint, sewing machine art is literally grafting sewing machine with art.
Mingi Jung’s creativity in using sewing machines, a practice that is fading from memory, and reviving it into an artistic performance, jumps through the genres and is at the front line of various experimental arts that attempt to reflect human life and the environment.
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