Bus Stop

Hwan Kwon Yi 2005

Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea

At times, the space occupied by myself or those around me allows me to feel a strong sense of presence, whether the space is friendly or indifferent towards me. However, I remain optimistic even in those moments. Scenes of people waiting for the bus are very close to my heart. It is a simile for a life that awaits something not easily obtainable, such as success, love, satisfaction, stability and obstacles that we want to overcome. Indeed, we are all alike in this regard. I believe sympathy is more fundamental than intellectual play.

Details

Title: Bus Stop
Creator: Yi, Hwan Kwon
Creator Lifespan: 1974
Creator Nationality: Korean
Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
Date Created: 2005
Type: Sculpture
Medium: F.R.P
Size: Variable size
Artist's Note: You have often experienced such distortion in the television monitor when seeing a cinemascope film, whose images seem elongated upward and downward. When I watched the film as a young kid, I was imaging the elongated world. I wished I could get in the space; for instance, when you stretch your arm forward, the length of your arm looks shorter but then again its depth could be shown thicker. Whereas, if you hand up or hand down, its length seems longer but then again its depth could be shown thinner. My works is different from anamorphic and reflected images through a concave mirrors that is distorted and turned right and left. On the other hand, movie or surfaces of screen and mirror takes indirect way; it is visualized by movement and distortion. My sculptures cannot be understood in the two dimensional axis. I was imaging the figures and scenery from this narrow compressed world. I had perceived intuitively something would be happened because of the results of imagination. Meanwhile, I started modeling with pictures modified by graphic tools in order to present it in the real space. Making things; it means practical side of creation like drawing, making sounds, dancing, and writing, is the easiest way to present imaginations in the reality of life. Throughout many times of practice, I had known it is subjective works because it has particular point of sight and needs observation and measure of modeling. The first question throughout the procedure is about the factor of dizzy and optical illusion. It is caused by the differences of distance; my sculpture needs different sense of distance that cannot be explained with common perception of distance. (March 19, 2009)
Artist's Education: Kyungwon University. Korea. M.F.A., Environmental Sculpture.

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