HYUNG SHIN HWANG
Hyungshin Hwang is a renowned art furniture artist focusing on practicality with his original designs. The Layered exhibition starts from his childhood image of grayish Seoul, an incessantly transforming city full of geometric architecture.
He constructs his own modeling by reproducing and recombining fragmented images emerged from an urban environment and its cultural characteristics. ‘Layered’ means layering up repetitive memories formed by a distinctive environment as well as the process of utilizing material and production. The commonly found black polypropylene board is used to metaphorically reflect the present.
The artist reinterprets fragments of urban society’s image by forming a community of each combined objects.
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