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Artist Tai-Jung Um Invited to Frieze Sculpture 2019 [ No.13 ]

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Tai-Jung UM | A Stranger Holding Two Wings | 2018 | Aluminum, steel ? The Artist and ARARIO GALLERY

THE EXHIBITION

Opening Reception

2019.7.2 (Tue), 5 - 7pm

English Gardens, The Regent's Park

Duration

2019.7.3 (Wed) – 2019.10.16 (Sun)

Venue

The Regent's Park (Chester Rd, London NW1 4NR)

ARARIO GALLERY is pleased to present Tai-Jung Um’s work A Stranger Holding Two Wings(2018) at Frieze Sculpture 2019, on display from July 3 to October 6, 2019.

Frieze Sculpture, having started in 2005, is the largest and most prominent sculpture project in London and opens annually between July and October in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park. This annual project shows about 20 of the most notable sculptures selected from around the world, and attracts not only people from the art community but also visitors coming to London. Clare Lilley, the director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, selected 23 artists this year, including Tai-Jung Um, who is the one and only Korean artist, alongside artists such as Tracey Emin, Barry Flanagan, Vik Muniz, and Tom Sachs.

Beginning with the 1967 Prime Minister’s Prize, Tai-Jung Um went on to win the Grand Prize from the Korean Art and Grand Prix, as well as the Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Prize, establishing himself in the first generation of abstract sculptors in Korea. As his work reinterprets space through the materiality of sculpture to reconstruct the relationship between the work and the viewer, he has often been compared with Anthony Caro and Richard Serra, and has achieved acknowledgement for his long-running experiments with materiality and their value within art history. Together with his interpretations of materiality, his philosophical contemplation on time and space, spiritual practice, and outcomes from meditation have drawn worldwide attention, coinciding with recent building interest in Eastern worldviews and spatial aesthetic. We believe that the work’s presence, having been selected for Frieze Sculpture 2019 in the midst of such attention, will prove to be an important opportunity to introduce to the world Tai-Jung Um’s sixty years of artistic journey, synchronized with the history of Korean abstract sculpture.

A Stranger Holding Two Wings(2018) is a work composed of black linear iron pipes that hold two symmetrical aluminum panels. This work is a representative piece showing the fusion of the longtime experimentation and investigation by an artist deeply immersed in materiality, and his conceptual studies of existence and time. Aluminum, the main medium of this work, is neutral yet shows distinctive materiality, aligned to the artist’s worldview that he hopes to reach through his work. The contrast between silvery aluminum panels, cleanly polished by the artist, and black linear iron pipes–that is, a structure combined of disparate elements, speaks of Um’s philosophy of a healing space-time, one of embracing those alienated and unknown, wherein I and the Other coexist.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

Installation View of A Stranger Holding Two Wings at The Regent's Park London, 2019 ? The Artist and ARARIO GALLERY

THE ARTIST

Tai-jung Um was born in Mungyeong, South Korea, and graduated from Seoul National University’s Department of Sculpture. He studied at Saint Martin’s in London, and has held positions as a research professor at Berlin University of Arts, and as a professor in Seoul National University’s Department of Sculpture. Due to its medium specificity, the sculpture of Korea has had relatively few opportunities to be introduced abroad; despite this situation, Um has held exhibitions in Berlin’s Georg Kolbe Museum, the Woodstock Gallery in London, and the Sao Paulo Biennale, and his work may be found in collections such as the Prime Minister’s Public Hall in Berlin, showing that Um has received constant attention from the international art community. Currently, he has been active as an Honorary Professor of Seoul National University since 2004, and has been a member of the National Academy of Arts of the Republic of Koreasince 2013. Represented solely by Arario Gallery, Tai-Jung Um held concurrent major retrospective exhibitions earlier this year in Arario Gallery Seoul Samcheong and Arario Gallery Cheonan, which included his works from 1960s to the present.