GWON Osang
Seongsan Art Hall
GWON Osang, Reclining Sofa, 2024, bouclé, wood, sponge, 100 × 70 × 80 cm, Supported by the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
GWON Osang, Reclining Sofa, 2024, bouclé, wood, sponge, 101 × 220 × 105 cm
GWON Osang, Path of the Wind, 2024, UV print on wood, varnish, 120.7 × 70 × 80 cm
GWON Osang, Siège de Jeune Oiseau, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 81 × 28 × 28 cm
GWON Osang, Head, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 19 × 24 × 22 cm
GWON Osang, King of Kings, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 88 × 47 × 37 cm
GWON Osang, Young Bird, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 91 × 35 × 35 cm
GWON Osang, Socle-Tabouret, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 83 × 30 × 30 cm
GWON Osang, Socle Composé de Trois Éléments, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 82 × 38 × 38 cm
GWON Osang, Head, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 19 × 24 × 22 cm
GWON Osang, Composition, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 77 × 45 × 35 cm
Courtesy of artist and ARARIO GALLERY
The artist Moon Shin is known to have explored how to create “sculpture that human beings can inhabit”; taking this as his reference, GWON Osang creates Reclining Sofa as ”sculpture that human beings can use.” For Moon Shin, the challenge was not about conceiving of a sculpture that would serve as a physical space for a person to inhabit. Rather, this would be the kind of sculpture that encompassed the relationships and emotions surrounding a person, their environment and its essence. A work of art, this may also appear to be a piece of furniture or an architectural structure, or even a part of the natural world. GWON interprets this approach in his own sculptural language, attempting to expand the spatial dimension for both sculpture and art. Path of the Wind is a three-dimensional photographic sculpture that utilizes the artist’s unique methodology of turning photographs into three-dimensional objects, complete with openings for the wind to enter and exit, effectively enriching our understanding of both sculpture and space.
In this exhibition, artist GWON Osang, known for experimenting with various mediums including the relationship between photography and sculpture, presents new works that pay homage to artist’s Moon Shin’s sculptural methodology. For GWON, sculpture is a unique way of shaping the world; in this exhibition, he considers questions that have been hovering between Western art history and the contemporary Korean sculpture scene by borrowing from the making methodologies of master Western sculptors such as Brancusi and Henry Moore.
GWON Osang, Reclining Sofa, 2024, bouclé, wood, sponge, 101 × 220 × 105 cm
GWON Osang, Path of the Wind, 2024, UV print on wood, varnish, 120.7 × 70 × 80 cm
GWON Osang, Siège de Jeune Oiseau, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 81 × 28 × 28 cm
GWON Osang, Head, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 19 × 24 × 22 cm
GWON Osang, King of Kings, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 88 × 47 × 37 cm
GWON Osang, Young Bird, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 91 × 35 × 35 cm
GWON Osang, Socle-Tabouret, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 83 × 30 × 30 cm
GWON Osang, Socle Composé de Trois Éléments, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 82 × 38 × 38 cm
GWON Osang, Head, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 19 × 24 × 22 cm
GWON Osang, Composition, 2023, archival pigment print, mixed media, 77 × 45 × 35 cm
Courtesy of artist and ARARIO GALLERY
The artist Moon Shin is known to have explored how to create “sculpture that human beings can inhabit”; taking this as his reference, GWON Osang creates Reclining Sofa as ”sculpture that human beings can use.” For Moon Shin, the challenge was not about conceiving of a sculpture that would serve as a physical space for a person to inhabit. Rather, this would be the kind of sculpture that encompassed the relationships and emotions surrounding a person, their environment and its essence. A work of art, this may also appear to be a piece of furniture or an architectural structure, or even a part of the natural world. GWON interprets this approach in his own sculptural language, attempting to expand the spatial dimension for both sculpture and art. Path of the Wind is a three-dimensional photographic sculpture that utilizes the artist’s unique methodology of turning photographs into three-dimensional objects, complete with openings for the wind to enter and exit, effectively enriching our understanding of both sculpture and space.
In this exhibition, artist GWON Osang, known for experimenting with various mediums including the relationship between photography and sculpture, presents new works that pay homage to artist’s Moon Shin’s sculptural methodology. For GWON, sculpture is a unique way of shaping the world; in this exhibition, he considers questions that have been hovering between Western art history and the contemporary Korean sculpture scene by borrowing from the making methodologies of master Western sculptors such as Brancusi and Henry Moore.
