Exhibition
Korea, 1974
Yi Hwan Kwon is a renowned Korean sculptor known for his intriguing sculptures that seem to exist between real lift and an imaginary world of illusion.
The distorted sculptures of Yi Hwan Kwon display a parallel universe where ocular reality and perceptual accords of conformity are absurdly bended. They provoke a visual experience in space and time, where our eyes seem to navigate familiar objects and people only for the first time, and our predicated perception must freshly adjust.
The compression of distance, space and time in Yi’s freeze-frame world is in reference to the elongated world appearing on television when wide-screen film is broadcast, and is an inquisitive attempt to inject vitality into the variable relationship between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional realms. The outstretched and flattened shapes, which are molded from digitally-manipulating thousands of photographs, perhaps present a contemporary solution in reinterpreting forms and relativity of space not unlike the exercises of Alberto Giacometti. Trained in Seoul in environmental sculpture, Yi’s coveted works hold an innate consideration of the existing environment, and at the same time, emphasize the discovery of new interactive relationship between human and land, natural and artifice, illusion and reality.
2001 Received a B.F.A from College of Fine Art, Kyung Won University, Korea
Received the Superior prize at The World Ceramic Expo 2001 Sculpture Park Exhibition
2004 Received a M.F.A from Kyung Won University, Korea
2001 The Plastic, Son Kuk Hwan & Yi Hwan Kwon twin exhibition, Alternative Space LOOP,
Seoul, Korea
2002 Narrative Sculpture & Mirror of Everyday Life, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan,
Korea
Coming to Our House, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2003 Psychodrama, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
PLS, Be quiet…2, Gallery Sang, Seoul, Korea
2004 Busan Biennale 2004 – Busan Sculpture Project, Eulsukdo Sculpture Park, Busan, Korea
2005 Bus Stop, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Art and Playing funsters Seoul Arts Center, Goyang Cultural foundation, Seoul, Korea
Portfolio 2005, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Discurse, The Second Festival of Young Asian Artists, Using all the halls of Changwon
Seongsan Art-hall, Seong Nam, Korea
Anyang Publiv Art Project ‘APAP’ Anyang Park, Anyang, Korea
2006 Special Christmas Exhibition, Gallery Godo, Seoul, Korea
Mix, connect, get together, Nak-san Dongsung-dong, Seoul, Korea
Expression of Time: Face Exhibition, GimHae Arts and Sports Center, GimHae
Spring festival-The Way that Going on a Picnic, Seongnam Arts Center, Seong Nam,
Korea
PAN Festival, Heyri lnternational Crossover Art Festival, Heyri Art Valley, Heyri,
Korea
Hong Soo Yeun & Yi Hwan Kwon, twin exhibition, Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
Between Others, – EBS Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea
2007 Yi Hwan Kwon Skulpture, Anders Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
A Windy Day, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Have You Eaten Yet?, 2007 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of
Fine Arts, Taiwan
From C to Pop, Soheon Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2008 Yi Hwan Kwon Solo Exhibition, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (solo)
2009 A World Not Quite Alike, NUS Museum, Singapore (solo)
Artworks
