“Botched art: the meanderings of Sung Neung Kyung” Installation view at Gallery Hyundai © Gallery HyundaiFrom August 23 to October 8, Gallery Hyundai will present a solo exhibition Botched art: the meanderings of Sung Neung Kyung, by the artist Sung Neung Kyung (b. 1944). The exhibition is a mini retrospective of the artist’s work, showcasing more than 140 of his iconic works, both early and recent.
Sung Neung Kyung is a leading Korean conceptual artist who has been developing experimental works since the early 1970s as a member of ‘ST’ group. His works utilizing the newspaper are his signature works. To criticize the situation in which freedom of speech was suppressed due to government censorship, he cut out articles from newspapers that reflected only selective information.
The exhibition takes place on the first and second floors of Gallery Hyundai. The first floor mainly features works from the 1970s to the early 2000s, and the second floor mainly features recent works from the 2000s onwards. The first floor is focused on his photographic works, especially his iconic ‘Venue’ series from the 1980s. In this series, the artist re-edited photographs from newspapers and installed them, introducing a method of ‘appropriation’. On the second floor, there are works such as < Handwashing > (2021), which reflects on the period of the pandemic, and < Everyday English > (2003-2018), in which the artist clipped English education sections from newspapers and leaved notes from his study.
Besides, archival such as posters of past exhibitions and titles handwritten by the artists on the walls in the ‘Venue’ series will be shown, giving a glimpse of the artist’s humorous and characteristic work.
