“Inkie Whang (b. 1951 Korea): An Old Breeze 13-3-2, 2013 (Mixed media)” / Gallery Ihn / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14001
Car is the new canvas? Just when you thought that mixed media cannot get more insane, Korean artist Inkie Whang (b. 1951) proves that WTF is the darling in contemporary works.
It is a scenery of Chinese (Korean?) traditional painting, but with the aid of computers, Inkie Whang digitalise and pixelated the essence and turn them into an abstract work of the original. Although he works with computer to create the template, the artist applies his building blocks—plastic circles in this case—onto the canvas (or car?!) by hand, which shows crafts and workmanship like no others.
Crazyisgood. SML Love.
Inkie Whang
An Old Breeze 13-3-2, 2013
Mixed media
144 x 133 cm
# Inkie Whang
1951 born in Korea
1971 Seoul National University, College of Engineering
1975 Seoul National university, College of fine Art (BA)
1981 Pratt institute (MFA)
2007 Professor at SungKyunKwan University
Whang, Inkie depicts traditional landscape views by employing various materials in his works including Swarovski crystals, silicon and plastic blocks (Legos). He paints the wooden background with thick layers and digitalizes the oriental landscape into small pixels, which is created with no outer lines but only with the materials. The process of authoritative craftsmanship through computer-aided manipulation alters the image that causes the abstract effect of the original image. Through his experimental style, the works connects the contemporary life with Korean traditional history, which is to modernize Korean identity and Korean aesthetics. He represented for the Korean Pavilion of Venice Biennale in 2003.
www.galleryihn.com/at/whang/bio.html
# Gallery Ihn
73 Cheongwadae-ro Jongno-gu
110 - 220 Seoul
Korea, Republic Of
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:43:02+0800
+ Dimensions: 4599 x 3066
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 27 mm
+ ISO: 500
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14001
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Inkie Whang (b. 1951 Korea): An Old Breeze 13-3-2, 2013 (Mixed media)” / Gallery Ihn / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14001
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #InkieWhang #GalleryIhn #Korea #mixedmedia #car #WTF
“Inkie Whang (b. 1951 Korea): An Old Breeze 13-3-2, 2013 (Mixed media)” / Gallery Ihn / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14001
Car is the new canvas? Just when you thought that mixed media cannot get more insane, Korean artist Inkie Whang (b. 1951) proves that WTF is the darling in contemporary works.
It is a scenery of Chinese (Korean?) traditional painting, but with the aid of computers, Inkie Whang digitalise and pixelated the essence and turn them into an abstract work of the original. Although he works with computer to create the template, the artist applies his building blocks—plastic circles in this case—onto the canvas (or car?!) by hand, which shows crafts and workmanship like no others.
Crazyisgood. SML Love.
Inkie Whang
An Old Breeze 13-3-2, 2013
Mixed media
144 x 133 cm
# Inkie Whang
1951 born in Korea
1971 Seoul National University, College of Engineering
1975 Seoul National university, College of fine Art (BA)
1981 Pratt institute (MFA)
2007 Professor at SungKyunKwan University
Whang, Inkie depicts traditional landscape views by employing various materials in his works including Swarovski crystals, silicon and plastic blocks (Legos). He paints the wooden background with thick layers and digitalizes the oriental landscape into small pixels, which is created with no outer lines but only with the materials. The process of authoritative craftsmanship through computer-aided manipulation alters the image that causes the abstract effect of the original image. Through his experimental style, the works connects the contemporary life with Korean traditional history, which is to modernize Korean identity and Korean aesthetics. He represented for the Korean Pavilion of Venice Biennale in 2003.
www.galleryihn.com/at/whang/bio.html
# Gallery Ihn
73 Cheongwadae-ro Jongno-gu
110 - 220 Seoul
Korea, Republic Of
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:43:02+0800
+ Dimensions: 4599 x 3066
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0
+ Focal Length: 27 mm
+ ISO: 500
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14001
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“Inkie Whang (b. 1951 Korea): An Old Breeze 13-3-2, 2013 (Mixed media)” / Gallery Ihn / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14001
/ #Photojournalism #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLFineArt #SMLProjects #Crazyisgood
/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #Art #FineArt #ArtBasel #ABHK #InkieWhang #GalleryIhn #Korea #mixedmedia #car #WTF