Hyong Nam Ahn, sculptor from Seattle in Washington, is invited for a solo exhibition, “Seeing through Music” at Gallery Korea at Korean Cultural Service with his overwhelming works inspired by music from October 27 to November 24, 2010.
Hyong Nam Ahn was born in Korea in 1955 and earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1980. Inspired by Kinetic Art in 1960’s, his sculptures intergrate lights, sounds and movements. Ahn has received numerous commissions for public sculptures from notable institutions and corporations such as McDonald Corporation in McCormick Place Donnelly Hall World Convention Center, Chicago, IL.
“Art is a lie – a useful and beautiful lie,” states Ahn and continues.
“If someone is in love, longing makes lovers die every day and every hour. I would rather create a useful lie until I die – not a longing, lover’s lie – so that I am able to live out every day and every hour of my life. The central point of artists is often riveted on the exhilarating, dynamic aspects of their surroundings.
The kinetic, ever changing character of our environment has always interested me. I constantly search for visual idioms capable of expressing this dynamic. My use of mixed medium or controlling devices is my means of vividly expressing my inner thoughts. My works express my feelings of sympathy for human relationships in our technology-oriented world – a world that has used, without conscience, force to conquer our natural environment. Human relationships have been changed by this phenomenon, yet the underlying laws of the universe remain constant – the velocity of light has not changed since Creation.
Most of my recent works are based on subliminal objects inspired by natural occurrences such as moonlight and migrating birds. This natural source inspires my core.
I often use sound and light to solve formal aesthetic problems. I explore the way in which sound and light function as both the subject matter and the material basis of contemporary art.”
Gallery Korea at Korean Cultural Service 460 Park Ave. 6th Fl. New York, NY 10022 (212)759-9550
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