Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Yona Lee, off-site
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
18 August —
14 December 2023
off-site explores the possibilities of speculative sculpture through the medium of non-white cube spaces, reconstructing sense of spaces and reality while responding to the logic and contemporary conditions of places. The six artists/teams in the exhibition will use the functional spaces of the museum−including the theater, the backstage area, dressing room, garden, stairways, the mechanical rooms, and the rooftop−as both exhibition sites and materials, experimenting and transforming their respective formative language and sculptural practices within and outside of the museum site.
off-site features artists Choi Goen, GRAYCODE jiiiiin, Hyun Nahm, Jong Oh, Jungyoon Hyen and Yona Lee.
off-site explores the possibilities of speculative sculpture through the medium of non-white cube spaces, reconstructing sense of spaces and reality while responding to the logic and contemporary conditions of places. The six artists/teams in the exhibition will use the functional spaces of the museum−including the theater, the backstage area, dressing room, garden, stairways, the mechanical rooms, and the rooftop−as both exhibition sites and materials, experimenting and transforming their respective formative language and sculptural practices within and outside of the museum site.
off-site features artists Choi Goen, GRAYCODE jiiiiin, Hyun Nahm, Jong Oh, Jungyoon Hyen and Yona Lee.
Seung Yul Oh, Guttation
ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
23 June —
23 July 2023
Following his 2020 exhibition Touch at ONE AND J. Gallery, Guttation marks Seung Yul Oh's first solo show in South Korea in three years.
Striving to break away from fixed perceptions and evoke expanded experiences, Oh visualizes intangible entities and phenomena, such as the air, through his artworks, stimulating the imagination and senses of the viewers. In this exhibition, he presents 11 new works, including two installations, one painting, and eight paper collages, which encompass the overall understanding of the exhibition space, its architectural elements, light, and air, while encompassing the nuanced feelings we often perceive.
Following his 2020 exhibition Touch at ONE AND J. Gallery, Guttation marks Seung Yul Oh's first solo show in South Korea in three years.
Striving to break away from fixed perceptions and evoke expanded experiences, Oh visualizes intangible entities and phenomena, such as the air, through his artworks, stimulating the imagination and senses of the viewers. In this exhibition, he presents 11 new works, including two installations, one painting, and eight paper collages, which encompass the overall understanding of the exhibition space, its architectural elements, light, and air, while encompassing the nuanced feelings we often perceive.
Len Lye, Movement Making Movement
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
23 April —
26 September 2021
Movement Making Movement is an exhibition that examines classic works of animation from the early 20th century and the methods used to create them, focusing on the historical context of what is now established as an important genre of visual arts. The term “animation” refers to a technique and genre in which numerous images are photographed and manipulated in sequence to give the appearance that the objects or figures on screen are moving. Animation is nearly as old as film itself, and over more than a century of its history, various techniques have been developed and attempted to achieve more vivid and natural movements. This exhibition spotlights some of the representative works of five pioneering animators from the 1920s along with the methods that they used to produce them.
Even amid the turbulence of World War II, these five artists—Germans Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) and Oskar Fischinger (1900–67), New Zealander Len Lye (1901–80), Czech Karel Zeman (1910–89), and Scottish-Canadian Norman McLaren (1914–87)—worked tirelessly to create new, innovative work and achieve more realistic movement. Depicting fantasy worlds using limited tools, materials, and manual methods at a time before computer graphics, their films have become classics that ushered a wave of transformation into animation history and have served as sources of inspiration for later generations of creators.
Movement Making Movement is an exhibition that examines classic works of animation from the early 20th century and the methods used to create them, focusing on the historical context of what is now established as an important genre of visual arts. The term “animation” refers to a technique and genre in which numerous images are photographed and manipulated in sequence to give the appearance that the objects or figures on screen are moving. Animation is nearly as old as film itself, and over more than a century of its history, various techniques have been developed and attempted to achieve more vivid and natural movements. This exhibition spotlights some of the representative works of five pioneering animators from the 1920s along with the methods that they used to produce them.
Even amid the turbulence of World War II, these five artists—Germans Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) and Oskar Fischinger (1900–67), New Zealander Len Lye (1901–80), Czech Karel Zeman (1910–89), and Scottish-Canadian Norman McLaren (1914–87)—worked tirelessly to create new, innovative work and achieve more realistic movement. Depicting fantasy worlds using limited tools, materials, and manual methods at a time before computer graphics, their films have become classics that ushered a wave of transformation into animation history and have served as sources of inspiration for later generations of creators.