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The Whole Picture of the Incident, a Hanging Old Woman

Sunkwan Kwon2010

Korean Art Museum Association

Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea

The series of exhibits some incidents, which locates in parallel with reality, and freely scud in any direction with inherent diversity. The artist stops the instinct in depth of the period, discovers a paradox in affiliations, and enlightens the distance between traditions and unfamiliarity. 는 어떤 사건을 보여준다. 이것은 현실과 평행적인 위치에 있으면서 다름을 내재화 한 채 자유로운 방향을 향해 질주하는 것이다. 작가는 이 다른 사건 속에서 유출되는 시대의 심층이 가진 본능을 멈추게 하고, 그 속의 계열들 속에서 나타나는 역설을 발견하고, 해묵은 형식이 지금 잘 드러나지 않는 낯섦 사이의 거리를 깨닫게 한다.

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  • Title: The Whole Picture of the Incident, a Hanging Old Woman
  • Creator: Kwon, Sunkwan
  • Creator Lifespan: 1973
  • Creator Nationality: Korean
  • Creator Birth Place: Jeonju, Korea
  • Date Created: 2010
  • Physical Dimensions: w2250 x h1800 cm
  • Type: Photography
  • Medium: Digital C-print
  • Critic's Note: Sunkwan Kwon is one of the most reputable photo artists in Korea, known for his superior technics. He depicts a malerisch sense in his portrait work and depicts a birdseye view in his landscape photographs. Overall his work retains characteristics of directed photographs. The artist demonstrates his ability to make the spectator confused by recognizing fortuities in real situation and probabilities in intentional direction. In consequence, while they face Sunkwan Kwon’s artwork, the audience is demanded to continuously interpret the scene displayed. To interpret his artwork, the spectators consider the significance of the point of view. They should keep having tenacious questions that ask who the characters are, why they show tense expressions on their face and what their situations are. ‘Spectacular visibility’ that is presented in his photographs is also a general attraction of his work. Similar to pictorial puzzle, there exist some infinitesimal hidden figures in his 2-3 meter sized gigantic photos. Discarding the tradition to position main characters in the center of the scene, he expands the scale of the photograph through concealing the protagonist out of the way, in the corner. Therefore, observers are able to be rid of esthetical composition and techniques, and free to be absorbed in the hidden characters of the scene and explore their significance. His artwork can be defined as a process of initial inquiry that probes the essence of photo media to the origin. As a consequence, he attempts to create another world through the photo for a record, for an 'estheticher gegenstand,' and for a challenge of technical limitation. As a result there is a nebulous situation, where it is hard to figure out the circumstance between the deliberate direction of artist and coincidence. The spectators are confronted with difficulties of interpreting situational significance and context. Sunkwan Kwon is a rare attainer who extensively applies the following to his work: the social aspect of photographs, relationship between significance and rhetoric, the range of possibility and limitation of photo media with aesthetical composition.
  • Artist's Education: Korea National University of Arts, M.F.A., Media Art.
Korean Art Museum Association

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