Woo Song Bang
Claudia Cannizzaro
Joel Fisher
Si Yeon Kim
Hyung-Sub Shin
Gallery Korea will present Form and Displacement,
an exhibition of new sculpture by an international
group of artists. In addition to four artists
who are part of an extensive group of emerging
artists in New York, the exhibition will feature
bronze and plaster sculpture by Joel Fisher, who
has returned to New York after several years teaching
at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Woo Song Bang will install a collection of identical
glass jars containing specimen-like clusters of
peanuts. Entitled Insect Cabinet, the work is
both a serial sculpture and an eccentric vitrine.
Si Yeon Kim uses transparency and reflection in
an installation that mimics architectural features.
She reproduces the shapes of a door and window
with a reflective surface that also relates to
the interior of an adjacent box in which space
appears to be compressed. The amplitude of the
cosmos is concentrated inside Claudia Cannizzaro’s
white boxes of different shapes and sizes that
have openings that suggest doors and windows.
Threads connecting the walls and ceiling traverse
the space inside each box and are arranged according
to imaginary constellations that are formed in
a network of crossing lines drawn on the walls.
Joel Fisher will exhibit a large bronze sculpture
that has an assortment of biomorphic and anthropomorphic
characteristics. The bulbous form has a deep brown
patina except for a small protruding rod that
seems to emerge against the floor and has the
disquieting appearance of being rubbed to a shiny
golden color. In another work, Portrait, a distorted
head is based on a line drawing that was produced
in successive stages by different people trying
to replicate the previous person’s drawing
by memory. Hyung-Sub Shin incorporates found objects
in sculptures that give new life to discarded
and familiar things. He has created fantastic
insects with the perforated steel sides of a vegetable
steamer and restored the sound of an old record
player with a plastic soda bottle.
The work in this exhibition reflects the different
ways sculptors are enthusiastically renegotiating
recognizable forms and discovering new meanings
with both traditional and unconventional materials.
