T-YONG CHUNG

site-specific Text by Odile Orsi

May 31st – July 19th, 2008 | Opening: Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Objects, in their form, colour, and smell, constantly evoke something that goes beyond their simple and limited original function. Eco’s memories occupy our minds, guide us through association, deciding whether the object is to be loved or hated and as a result becoming the subject of our existence.

Inebriated by reminiscence that some archetypes have left in his memory, in the icebox spaces

T-Yong Chung realizes sculptural assemblies in which the object, observed and manipulated, becomes the recurrent reason for his works.

Far from the consumerist view of things, what reappears in his works, which he gives a paradoxically abstracted identity, is an oriental recalling. The purity of both lines and forms melt together to create one composition.

The “new object”, a result of research and association and the choice of materials such as cement and marble, coaxes the observer to become detached from the relentless rhythm of daily life in favour of rediscovering one’s ego and memory, giving life to distant, confused and fragmented recollections.

Nowadays, cement may be defined as a natural element, as the metamorphosis of the landscape has made it visible everywhere. Conceptually, this material, along with marble, both present in one of the works on show, wants to immobilize the object, to become an intercessor for memories, to make it eternal, firm in that specific time and place. The “icebox” wants to be the container, the cabinet of curiosities of unremitting memorial evocation.

T-Yong Chung, born in 1978 in Tae-gu, South Korea, lives and works between Milan and Seoul.

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