“Mirroring Effects” Installation view at Gallery BHAK ©Gallery BHAKFrom June 1 to July 8, Gallery BHAK will present Mirroring Effects, a solo exhibition by Berlin, Germany-based Hubertus Hamm (b.1950), which marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Korea.
Hubertus Hamm majored in photography and later used technology as a tool for his art, creating sculptures in the genres of kinetic and op art. While majoring in photography, the artist was concerned with the mechanical creation and passive appreciation of the camera and later manipulated the camera in a specific mode utilizing science and technology to capture the subject on camera. Through this, the works he creates have a kinetic quality, inviting the viewer to move and showing a convergent art world that is completed by the interaction between the creator, the work, and the viewer.
The artist’s work changes depending on the angle at which the viewer moves, and one or more colors and images appear, disappear, and overlap. In the case of the series ‘Vi-ew portrait’ at certain angles, the viewer’s portrait is reflected in real-time on the surface of the work, creating an expansion of vision and sensation similar to that of entering a room of mirrors, creating a highly unreal and mysterious atmosphere.
The exhibition reflects on the position of art in relation to technology as it develops as a creative form in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the development of AI, and the metaverse. Through this exhibition, visitors can experience the effects of the artist’s works, the possibility of imagination becoming reality, and the thought and expansion of the senses through interaction, and examine the meaning along with the prospects of convergence art.
