The Fantastic Four. short show #6
curated by Roberta Tenconi
In The Fantastic Four (2007) T-Yong Chung builds his treasure cave. If the artist were a pirate, this would be the place to hide the most precious loot; but it could also be a secret garden, an attic to rediscover junk has forgotten for years, or one of those boxes that are hidden underground by children with their own little treasures. It is the remotest part of the brain where sensations, emotions, and memories accumulate, which at a certain point, unconsciously, re-emerge turning into something else. And just as memories are gathered in our minds, T-Yong Chung searches for and stacks dozens of objects: furniture, furnishing elements, kitchen tools, garden tools, electronic equipment, scientific instruments, and any other type of object. or less cumbersome, banal, or everyday use that can be imagined, all rigorously covered with gold paint that makes one forget the original connotation. This collection, which on the one hand leaves us open-mouthed and almost stuns us, becomes a magnifying glass on the elements of ordinary life and on the magic that can be obtained: for T-Yong Chung “things” always take a meaning that goes far beyond their mere object and functional value.
Next to this enchanted mountain, there are four videos presenting small sketches. The protagonists are the artist and some of his friends, filmed while they use in an unusual way, playful and unconventional common and insignificant objects that are normally used exclusively according to the function for which they were created. In these short staging a ballpoint is disassembled and reassembled in a small airplane; some girls, sitting at a table, improvise new fire-eaters and play with a lighter, inhaling the flame; the disks of a sander to cut marble become flat in a hip hop dance; books that are removed from the shelf become juggling records. Nothing spectacular, excessive, or over the top, simply small and imperceptible actions that reinvent and modify the regular course of things for pure divertissement. The magic is, in fact, all in the idea and in giving a new life and dignity to otherwise ignored objects.
With The Fantastic Four, T-Yong Chung invites anyone to join and increase this small group of examples, to find new and unexpected solutions and to build their own small moment of lightness: this will be just the beginning of the dance.
The protagonists of the video Lilian Russo, Yoo Li, Shin Yu-jin, Jung Jae-uk, Nam Sang-su will be present at the opening
opening: Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 6.30 pm
Neon> fdv
via Procaccini 4 – Milan
