Aggregations

Alright I know I said I would post up the cardboard sculpture but I felt this had to be put up first! Cardboard sculpture will be up Wednesday night however.
This post was inspired by a show I went to the other week called Aggregations and it was absolutely incredible. The exhibit is being shown at Towson in the Asian Arts Exhibit which was beyond convenient. The artists name is Kwang Young Chun and the images below are only a few from the gallery and all of them are made from tiny triangles of mulberry paper from old Korean books he had collected over time. He uses natural pigments for the color and shading in the artwork. I think part of what made his work so exciting for me was that it was slightly three dimensional and yet the shading added a completely different dynamic. If at all possible it is definitely something I would recommend anyone seeing! From far away you get these gaping crater effects but when up close you can see individual lettering on the triangles from the books and how the shadows of each triangle play with each other. When asked the artist revealed that some of the triangles took as much as 8000 folded pieces! The artist himself was hysterical and it was neat to be able to see someone who had stayed true to himself to the point of creating his own style of art that is unique and different. I can only imagine the level of patience and determination it would take to create even a FRACTION of one of these pieces of art!!
Aside from the art work, which as I said was definitely awe inspiring, the gallery itself really added a little extra something. The lighting in particular was really effective in that it shone down on all the pieces from above. The lighting was soft enough to not take away from the over all work yet it emphasized all of the triangular pieces by casting new shadows that mingled with the manufactured shadows. This was only interrupted a couple times during the artists talk when one woman hit the light switch with her elbow and shut off the lights a few times!
Again it was an amazing show and I highly recommend every one who sees this to go and look at his work up close! But for those who can't here are some images from the show, and a link to the calendar associated with this event:

AGGREGATIONS