정 득 용

I spent quite a long time in Italy and did artwork. Then luckily, I had chance with artisans of various materials such as bronze, printmaking, and ceramics, and had the good fortune to deal with various physical properties. As I continued my artwork and looked at the result, I could not erase the feeling that I am an Asian and living in Italy as a foreigner. Accepting this without rejecting it, I have been trying to find a natural harmony between Italian aesthetic elements and Korean spiritual parts without confrontation.  My artwork are the traces of externally discovered objects, people, master’s skills and me, my nature, and memories of the environment I grew up constantly meeting, changing, and expressing. In particular, rather than trying to make something, abstract shapes and traces that appear when I erase the shape of a sculpture with a sanding machine or when I made the silhouette of a space imprinted on a transparent cloth with another silhouette are often developed into my artwork. Only the once full space that has been emptied, and only the empty space seems to be able to meet other spaces. And it becomes an opportunity to discover something new. T-Yong Chung 31 DEC. 2022

나는 이탈리아에서 꽤 오랜 시간을 보냈고 작업을 했다. 그러다 운 좋게 브론즈, 판화, 세라믹 등 다양한 재료의 장인들과 교류를 가졌고 여러 가지 물성을 다루는 행운을 가졌다. 작업을 이어나가면서 그 결과물을 바라볼 때 나는 이탈리아에서 살아가는 한 동양인이라는 감정을 지울 수가 없었다. 나는 이를 거부하지 않고 받아들이며 이탈리아의 미적인 요소와 한국의 정신적 부분의 경계에서 서로 대립하지 않고 자연스러운 조화를 발견하려고 노력해왔다. 나의 작업은 외부에서 발견된 오브제, 사람, 장인들의 스킬과 나, 나의 본성, 내가 자라온 환경의 기억이 끊임없이 만나고 변하고, 표출되는 흔적들이다. 특히 무엇인가를 만들려고 노력할 때 보다 만들어진 조각을 샌딩머신으로 형상을 지울 때 또는 투명한 천에 찍힌 공간의 실루엣을 다른 실루엣과 교합시켰을 때 나타나는 추상적인 형상, 흔적들이 내 작업으로 발전되는 경우가 많다. 꽉 찬 공간을 비워냈을 때 그리고 비어있는 공간만이 다른 공간을 만날 수 있는 듯하다. 그러면서 새로운 무엇 그 어떤 것을 발견할 수 있는 계기가 된다.

Solo shows and group exhibitions

T-yong Chung was born in Daegu, South Korea and graduated in Environmental Sculpture at the University of Seoul, then he graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milan). Lives and works between Milan and South Korea.
From 2007 to today his works have been presented in different solo shows as ‘Bacchus to Dust’ ,Spazio Bidet (Milan, 2024), ‘Contatto..’, Gallery Palzo (Daegu, 2023), ‘Persona & Vacuità’, Collezione Cattelani (Modena,2022), ‘The subject as space’, Galleria Renata Fabbri (Milan,2019), ‘Stanze-Odes to the Present’, Keats- Shelley House (Rome, 2019), ‘Short show’, Neon/fdv, (Milan,2007) and in group exhibitions in important spaces such as, ‘No, Neon, No Cry’, Museo Arte Moderna MAMBO(Bologna,2022), Biennale d’arte contemporanea (BienNoLo, Milan,2019), ‘Il colore Interiore’, Montelupo Museum(Montelupo2019), ‘Ponte di Conversazione con Paolo Aita’, Carlo Bilotti Museum,(Roma,2019), ACAW (Field Meeting) at Asia Society Museum (New York,2016), ‘Provoked clay’, Medievale Civico Museum(Bologna,2016),‘The Art of Living’, Triennale of Milano(2015), ‘Workshow’, Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation(Venice,2010), ‘Soft-cell’, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea (Monfalcone,2008), ‘New entry’, Careof (Milan,2007), ‘Punto d’estensione’, AR/GE Kunst Museum(Bozen, 2005).

T-yong  took part in many artistic residencies and workshops such as Museo Carlo Zauli (Faenza, Italy) and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice).