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Noh Sang-KyoonGallery Simon
Noh Sang-Kyoon: Shiny Ephemera
노상균: Shiny Ephemera
About the exhibition
Noh Sang-Kyoon's surfaces are made of small sequins, arranged and stacked one at a time. The colors and depth you see change with the light and with where you stand.
Gallery Simon presents this slow layering as a way of questioning the gap between what we see and how we understand the world. In this solo show, earlier works meet new imagery, which the gallery says adds a more painterly dimension to the artist's long investigation. The gallery asks visitors to notice the "fleeting shimmer" on these slowly built surfaces.
About the artist
Noh Sang-Kyoon (b. 1958) graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University and from Pratt Institute in New York. According to Gallery Simon, the artist was selected for the Korean Pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and was named artist of the year by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2000. The gallery lists works in that museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, Leeum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Exhibitions it lists include Medium Religion at ZKM in Germany (2008 to 2009).
Sources: Gallery Simon: Noh Sang-Kyoon · Gallery Simon: Shiny Ephemera
