NOH, SANG-KYOON : CONJURING CONSTELLATIONS
2011-05-02Noh, Sang-Kyoon chooses to follow his personal mythos as a source and driver for his creative process. Covered in thousands of sequins that he threads together by hand, the early sculptures and canvases of Noh, Sang-Kyoon trace their origins to both the ordinary and the spiritual-from the memory of his mother’s spangled bag and the costumes of singers on television, to a near-death childhood experience, when he nearly drowned. He realized then that he “could die in vain, as nobody, as nothing, with no purpose, as if a fish without scales that is doomed to perish.” He later translated these memories into a series of early work where sequins created the shining appearance of life-saving fish scales.
Opposite – Constellation 4 Leo, 2010. Sequins on canvas
Exhibition runs through to June 4th, 2011
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W24th Street
New York
NY 10011
