LEE Hyungkoo: ANIMATUS
LEE HYUNGKOO, A03, 2005
Period | 2 September – 8 October, 2006
Venue | Arario Gallery Cheonan
Works | 15 pieces including installation, painting, sculpture
Opening Reception | 6pm, 1 September, 2006
ARARIO gallery will show a new series of works by Hyungkoo Lee, September 2 through October 8, 2006. The new sculpture series in this exhibition is the extension from what Lee has been making, the Objectuals series. In the Objectuals series, Lee created a series of helmets and garments that simultaneously alter both one’s appearance and one’s vision of the real world by altering physical body parts with enlarging and reducing lenses. Paradoxically, the animatus series has come into the real world by searching and creating the inner structures of the body of the virtual images.
ARARIO gallery will show a new series of works by Hyungkoo Lee, September 2 through October 8, 2006.
The new sculpture series in this exhibition is the extension from what Lee has been making, the Objectuals series. In the Objectuals series, Lee created a series of helmets and garments that simultaneously alter both one’s appearance and one’s vision of the real world by altering physical body parts with enlarging and reducing lenses. Paradoxically, the animatus series has come into the real world by searching and creating the inner structures of the body of the virtual images.
This animatus series started with the intention to analyze anatomical structures and physical forms of animation characters, within the hypothesis to visualize the possible anatomical foundation. The faux-biological factors of the inner reality of the famous cartoonic figures are; Canis Latrans Animatus (Wile E. Coyote) and Geococcyx Animatus (Roadrunner) Lepus Animatus (Bugs Bunny), Felis Catus Animatus (Tom), Mus Animatus (Jerry), Anas Animatus (Donald Duck) and his three nephews, Animatus H, D and L ( Huey, Dewey and Louie).
Seemingly apart from the great extent from the earlier works, this new series of works still stays in the same context: the works are closely related to present a diverse way of pursuing the beauty, according to Lee.
In this solo exhibition, his actual studio lab space will be displayed as an actual installation piece, and Lee will have a performance on his opening day.
