Seoul, July 29 – October 23, 2015, http://www.savinamuseum.com
Bernard Faucon, HYBE, Hyungmin Moon, Jin Dallae & Park Woohyuk, Juhae Yang, MeeNa Park, Neil Harbisson, Sandy Skoglund, Seung Jung, Sohee Cho
“The exhibition aims at presenting a broad spectrum of the artists’ works of art in order to discover their own methods of represented ‘color’. Furthermore, this exhibition allows the audience to have an experience about experiment of color and light which based on chromatics.” (from Savina MoCA website)
A medium-sized exhibition or works relating to color. In a number of work color is used as a variable applied onto a certain aesthetic or practical problem. For example in HYBE’s machine that captures a visitor’s face, and then plays a piano melody using notes generated from the color values in the image of the face. Color is a practical variable there, used for translation. Something similar could be said about the inclusion of a documentary video about Neil Harbisson, who uses a machine connected to his brain to ‘hear color’. Other works are more ‘artistic’ than these two, like MeeNa Park’s monochrome colored coloring books for children, but none of them stood out too much for me. In the basement, there was a large neon-colored thread installation, but not large enough to be overwhelming. I felt the most distinctive work has been the poster design of the exhibition, which was also echoed in the form of an installation/artwork in the exhibition (both poster and artwork made by Jin & Park). It also made use of bright neon colors, not unlike the basement thread installation, but this time in solid chunks printed on paper (photo of posters at the very bottom of this post), or in the form of pure light emitted from neon tubes (as seen in the photo above).
