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Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined

On View from September 14 to December 10, 2023
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery

The Charles B. Wang Center presents Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined, an exhibition that features the works of Park Dae Sung, an innovative artist who transforms meditative observation into monumental artworks that revitalize Korean brush and ink techniques for modern audiences.

The exhibition captures the essence of the Korean-born Park’s artistic practice that is inspired by a deep contemplation of traditional East Asian art and the diversity of styles—contemplative, dramatic, tranquil, and powerful—that exist in the ink medium.

Viewers will walk away from his work with a newfound understanding of what it means to find beauty in what is old and with a fresh perspective on humanity’s contemporary relationships with nature, identity, and homeland. Park’s art presents an imaginative reinterpretation of history that, in turn, encourages a more progressive and stirring vision of the future.

A fully illustrated publication titled Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined is available for sale.

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Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined is organized by Jinyoung A. Jin, director of Asian art and culture at the Charles B. Wang Center, with the special support from the Gana Foundation for Arts and Culture, as well as the generous support from the Korea Foundation.

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The Splendor of Bamboo: Japanese Contemporary Baskets

The Splendor of Bamboo: Japanese Contemporary Baskets

On View from March 9, 2023 to May 31, 2023
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery

The aesthetic beauty of woven Japanese bamboo baskets has been praised and acknowledged for centuries. To this day, bamboo baskets are an integral and cherished part of the flower arrangement (ikebana) and tea ceremony in Japan. The Charles B. Wang Center celebrates the extraordinary beauty and intricate craftsmanship of Japanese bamboo baskets with a new generation of Japanese artists who produce functional, sculptural, and refined works with their individual sensibility and creativity. Twenty-seven baskets on display reflect the longstanding basket-weaving traditions and modern transformations of Japanese basketry with advanced plaiting skills and experimentation with new shapes.

All works are on loan from Courtesy of TAI Modern.

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Curated by Jinyoung A. Jin, director of cultural programs at the Charles B. Wang Center, the treasures in this exhibition take visitors on a remarkable journey across regions and time.

 

 

Saule Dyussenbina: Kazakh Funny Games and New Mythologies

Saule Dyussenbina: Kazakh Funny Games and New Mythologies

Saule Dyussenbina: Kazakh Funny Games and New Mythologies

On View from September 7 to December 10, 2022
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery

Curated by Jinyoung A. Jin, Saule Dyussenbina: Kazakh Funny Games and New Mythologies traces complex Central Asian geopolitics, history, traditions, and USSR memories through the works of Saule Dyussenbina. The former USSR-born Kazakh artist encapsulates the cultural diversity and multifaceted political history of Kazakhstan, and she produces new narratives and myths through unexpected juxtapositions and fragmented images.

From digital wallpaper to dinner plates, Dyussenbina sprinkles a sense of humor in her artworks while paying homage to European master artists such as Goya and Van Gogh, to indigenous nomadic Kazakhstan cultures, and to post-Soviet politics. She remixes motifs from traditional European ornaments, Kazakh folk culture (like ram horns, horses, and eagle hunters), architectural remains from the Soviet era, and icons of contemporary society (Chanel logos, surveillance cameras) and repeats them kaleidoscopically. Dazzling flies, flowers, horses, and cameras symbolize the collapse and rise of ubiquitous urban iconographies and repetitive failure in contemporary society.

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All of the displayed works are on loan from Sapar Contemporary in New York.