Daewon Yun earned a B.F.A. in Korean Painting from the College of Fine Arts at Kyunghee University and completed an M.F.A. in Sculpture at the same institution. He currently lives and works in Seoul.
Seoul’s
Gangdong District (District Head: Lee Jeong-hoon) announced on July 30 that the
Gangdong Cultural Foundation (CEO: Lee Je-hoon), established by the district
office, will hold the exhibition 《Push & Art》 until August 23, presenting
visual art interpretations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
This
exhibition marks the foundation’s first curated exhibition since its
establishment. It officially opened online on July 29 through Naver TV and
YouTube.
The offline exhibition opened on August 1 at Art Rang Space, operated by the
Gangdong Cultural Foundation.
The
title 《Push & Art》 conveys
the idea that artists respond to new social currents (PUSH) through art (ART).
According to the foundation, the exhibition visually interprets the Fourth
Industrial Revolution and the online era—such as information and communication
technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI)—which have become deeply
embedded in everyday life.
Participating
artists include Jinwoo Kim, Jaemin Lee, Subin So, Jinsu Han, Daewon Yun, and
the media art collective Collage Plus.
Installation
artist and engineer Jinwoo Kim amplifies viewers’ imagination and curiosity
through the robot work Flying Man. Collage Plus creates
a vibrant collage video by transforming Claude Monet’s (1840–1926) garden
paintings using digital media.
Media
artist Jaemin Lee presents wit through the interactive media work I
on Border, in which visitors’ faces are projected onto a large screen
alongside search terms.
Artist
Subin So, who explores encounters between science and nature, presents Heuristics
of the New Ecosystem, proposing the possibility of mechanical
evolution rather than natural plant evolution. The work consists of a robot
vehicle that carries living plants, resembling a robotic flowerpot at first
glance.
Visual
artist and choreographer Daewon Yun presents Connection,
a work in which LED lights emerge from the floor when two or more viewers enter
the space. Through a piece that can only be completed by the presence of
others, the artist explores themes of empathy and communication.
Kinetic
artist Jinsu Han raises questions about future technologies that may ensure the
quality of life for visual artists through Painting Machine,
in which a machine uses real paint and brushes to create paintings on canvas.
