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Artist Haegue Yang selected for MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020
Selected as the 7th artist for the exhibition of ‘MMCA Hyundai Motor Series’
Artist Haegue Yang selected for <MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020>
Selected as the 7th artist for the exhibition of ‘MMCA Hyundai Motor Series’ held by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and sponsored by Hyundai Motors |
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA, Director Youn Bum-mo) announced the selection of artist Haegue Yang for the <MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020>. The artist, well-known for creating complex sculptures and large installations built from global as well as every day and indigenous materials, has dealt with themes such as the relationship between narrative and the abstract, femininity, migration, and boundaries.
Artist Haegue Yang at <Taipei Dangdai 2019> Art Fair
(Photo: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sebastiano Pellion Di Persano)
Haegue Yang (1971, born in Seoul) has been active in Seoul and Germany since the mid-1990s. She has been invited to large international art events, such as the Venice Biennale and Kassel Documenta 13. Recently, she held invitation exhibitions and displayed her work in prestigious institutions, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern, earning recognition as one of the most important artists in the world of international contemporary art. In 2018, Yang received the Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards (the President's Citation) and the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for the first time as an Asian female artist. Yang is currently a professor at the Department of Fine Art at Städelschule in Frankfurt, her alma mater.
Yang has reinterpreted art's vast cultural references, including people, events, and phenomena in attractive language. References in the work are rearranged into unfamiliar but new causal relationships, to reach the present and transcend historicity. The artist employs a ready-made technique that utilizes mass-produced products while using a labor-intensive process at the same time. Haegue Yang's world of artwork is highly regarded for its intellectual depth and visually intense creativity, beyond simple understanding and didactic thinking.
Haegue Yang, <Strange Fruit>, 2012-2013, <Cone of Uncertainty> exhibition view, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, U.S., 2019 (Photo: Zachary Balber)
Haegue Yang's artwork encompasses diversity. It treats the concepts of domesticity and crafts socio-culturally and applies the methodology of geometrical construction using a mystical approach, instead of modern rationalism. The concepts of various cultures, civilizations, eras, and times are recapitulated in Haegue Yang’s works. If world history was divided geographically and politically after modernism, the artist suggests we reflect on this fragmentary and hegemonic perspective. The lines of abstract ‘grids’ or ‘orbits’ mobilized by the artist to perceive the world are superimposed, reflected, and multiplied like a kaleidoscope, reversing the boundaries of borders. The physical environment of the art museum’s architecture is handled using a more complex perspective through the artist's presentation.
The theme of ‘Housekeeping’ has been the artist’s key interest for many years. The new artwork <Quartet of a Sculpture with Sound> (working title) makes objects used at home/daily life larger, to correspond with the size of the human body, so that metaphorical, private meaning can be conveyed through the expansion, amplification, and deformation of physical size. We will unveil new work that references natural phenomena, such as atmospheric movement caused by differences in air temperature and humidity, built into digital murals and large balloon-shaped advertisement installations. This new work is an extension of past works that dealt with invisible senses, such as smell and light.
Haegue Yang, <Coordinates of Quadrilateral Solidarity>, 2019, <Cone of Uncertainty> exhibition view, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, U.S., 2019 (Photo: Zachary Balber)
In addition, a moving blind sculpture <Silent Cellar – A Clicked Heart> that reaches 10m high is installed in the Seoul box. This work, which was installed in 2017 in the boiler house at the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin, a former beer brewery, is a masterpiece, showing the recent development of the installation of blinds over 15 years.
Haegue Yang, <Store of Silence – A Clicked Heart> exhibition view, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017 (Photo: Jens Ziehe)
⟪MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020⟫ will be held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul from Sat., August 29 to Sun., January 17, 2021. More than 40 artworks, including installations, sculpture, and paintings will be unveiled and presented in this exhibition.
Director Youn Bum-mo of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art said, “The collection “Dividing and Binding: A Collection of Writings on Haegue Yang 2001-2020,” which collates artist research through collaboration with art museums for 3 years, begun after selecting the artist in late 2017, will be published soon. This large-scale solo exhibition by Haegue Yang, one of the influential artists in the contemporary world of international art, will be an opportunity to expand her recognition in many ways."
■ MMCA Hyundai Motor Series <MMCA Hyundai Motor Series>, hosted by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and sponsored by Hyundai Motors, is an annual exhibition that supports one prominent domestic artist every year for 10 years, since 2014. It was prepared to present the new face and work of modern Korean art and to further solidify the work of leading artists. The following artists have been selected so far: Lee Bul in 2014, Ahn Kyu-cheol in 2015, Kim Soo-ja in 2016, Lim Heung-soon in 2017, Choi Jeong-hwa in 2018, and Park Chan-kyeong in 2019. Marking its 7th year this year, the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series invites artist Haegue Yang (born in 1971, Seoul). This exhibition is an opportunity to see the artist’s world of artworks in depth as she has not held many domestic exhibitions, despite 25 years of steady production and active exhibition experience. Through <MMCA Hyundai Motor Series>, visitors will be able to see the present state and the dynamics of contemporary Korean art by experiencing the works of artists who have different attitudes and senses. This exhibition has set itself as a positive example of corporate sponsorship, where culture and art meet with companies to create a win-win effect, contributing to the development of modern Korean art. |
* The exhibition’s opening schedule is subject to change, depending on the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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