{"id":483,"date":"2017-03-10T19:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-yongchung.com\/portfolio\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=483"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:26:48","slug":"lavinia","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/t-yongchung.com\/portfolio\/portfolio-items\/lavinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavinia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lavinia<\/h5>\n
Open Studio _ Fonderia Artistica Battaglia
\nVia Stilicone 10, Milan
\nMarch 10 \u2013 March 23,\u00a02017<\/h6>\n
T-yong Chung<\/i>\u2019s perception and personal experience of Italy is that of a cultural, iconographic, and humanistic atlas from which he draws inebriated inspirations and thoughts.
\nHe wanders freely, and he is curious,\u00a0 attentive, and attracted by some fundamentals which one can easily discover in his artworks: Classical Art, Arte Povera, Minimalism. Undoubtedly, his works transcend a continuous dialogue between past and present.
\nA sculptor by tradition (his father is a sculptor in South Korea), he grew up in workshops and foundries. He then went on to study at the University of Seoul and then at the Brera Academy in Milan, and there he decided to settle down in Italy.
\nHis works portray the tension between the fullness of western culture and the essentiality of oriental culture. This creates a formal balance that is difficult to add to or take away from.\u00a0 His sculptures are defined although they seem unfinished and his mark is delicate yet vigorous.
\nOften incorporating leftover materials, antique chairs, rusty tools, sheet metals, he dismantles, reassembles, smooths polishes the remnant until it takes on a new identity, but still strongly linked to its dignified past.
\nHis most recent works start with plaster reproductions of classical busts and concrete models of everyday objects.
\nHe has recently started to approach the portrait subject, focusing his research more on a real person than on a symbol. Here the classical approach is always present, but a sort of contemporary humanism seems to prevail.<\/h6>\n
Lavinia<\/b>\u00a0is T-Yong Chung\u2019s most recent project to be held at\u00a0Fonderia Battaglia<\/i>\u00a0in Milan, in its\u00a0Open Studio<\/i>\u00a0program.
\nProduced by Tender to Art, Tender Capital\u2019s visual arts hub, the project will be installed and inaugurated at Fonderia Battaglia, Thursday, March 9, from 6 pm to 9 pm.
\nThe focus of the installation will be T-yong Chung\u2019s first work, which is a bronze sculpture of young girls bust classically and figuratively molded, which the Korean artist has reinterpreted based on his usual technique to decontextualize a western iconographic symbol, through incisions and surface polishing.<\/h6>\n
For T-yong Chung\u00a0Lavinia<\/b>, Latinus and Amata\u2019s daughter, Aeneas\u2019s second wife, portrayed as a child, represents Mediterranean femininity, the purity, and the complexity of a woman figure.
\nLavinia is an installation through which the shaping of a bronze bust using different materials and colors (plaster, clay, colored wax), are absorbed by the young face portrayed during the process itself. The result is an identifiable process of a cycle that repeats itself.<\/h6>\n
The object is characterized by what it shields and tells; it finds a new vitality in its estranged aesthetics. T-yong Chung moves through prominent symbolisms and familiar characters, arranging them in a new order, dictated by his sensitivity which sways between two profoundly different cultures.<\/h6>\n<\/div>
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