He returns to Italy with an exhibition in Venice the Korean artist Hyun Chothat the June 9th will present Electric Supermoona solo show for the spaces of Zero Framework at the Blue Gallery. The exhibition, which will be open to visitors, includes installations, sculptures, LED panels and texts until July 7, 2024, will explore the central themes of cultural indications in urban iconographies, commonly used language and ambiguous symbols. The exhibition is curated by Quadro Zero for Blue Gallery, in close collaboration with the artist, and is accompanied by a critical text by Ilaria Spondaindependent curator.
Originally from Seoul, where she was born in 1982, Hyun Cho exhibited in Italy for the first time at Spazio Display (Parma, Italy) in 2018, even before her residency at Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy) in the same year. With Electric Supermoon the Korean artist presents a selection of new and recent works in Venice that focus on the ambiguity of urban iconography, representing an experience of an apparent reality. Hyun Cho’s punk approach punctuates the exhibition itinerary. In fact, punk is still an archetypal example of the way in which a subculture can be commodified, neutralized and incorporated into the mainstream. Imagined as a rebellious and inherently political art, punk is capable of raising questions about the centrality of aesthetics when it comes to defining a cultural movement that transcends it.
«With words, I aim to create a new genre of art. I mix the lyrical style of punk music with pop sensibilities to create sentences that express my experience and that serve for viewers to attach their own,” declared the artist. «I adopt – she added – a stylistic characteristic of punk rock lyrics: short, repeatable and catchy. They are captivating and sometimes perverse to capture the audience’s attention, reflecting on the messaging we encounter every day in our complex world.”
The exhibition includes a series of three recent works created by the artist in Seoul, conceived as pieces with a clear reference to tombstones or monoliths of self-memory. It’s about RIP #Blue, RIP #Orange And Hitchhicker, all connected by a cool, metallic hue with LED displays and lights that allude to illogical but definite statements, creating a playful atmosphere for contemplating agency – the core of the human ability to exert conscious control over one’s behavior. LED lights are an energy source that pulsates like a supermoon.
An artist with an ironic and conceptual approach, Hyun Cho mixes in his works his own artistic and cultural references to the aesthetics and language of the Fluxus movement, Pop Art and the Young British Artists, with a particular reference to the work of Marcel Duchamp. The contextualization of Cho’s works within the Blue Gallery in Venice concerns, in the perspective of Quadro Zero, the interaction that arises from the encounter between container and content within the perimeter of a city thus defined by its own aesthetics.
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