Installation view of “Gtyutae Hwang: Contemporary Photography”, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2001)
HWANG Gyutae
Color Dots, 2001
Pigment print
190 x 104 x 7(d) cm each, set of 4
Edition of 7
Further images
240 x 120 cm each, 4 pieces Gyutae Hwang is one of the groundbreaking first-generation photographers in Korea. His interest in digital images in the 1980s led to new movement...
240 x 120 cm each, 4 pieces
Gyutae Hwang is one of the groundbreaking first-generation photographers in Korea. His interest in digital images in the 1980s led to new movement in Korea, including techniques using digital montage and collages. Through an extended cycle of experimentation, he now focuses on the concept of “pixels”—the base unit of images in all form consisting of dots. This artwork “Color Dots” selected for FIAC OVR highlights infinite possibility and visual potential of geometric figuration of “pixel” and the aesthetic that is the foundation of digital image. This artwork has been collected by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and has been exhibited in his retrospective exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.
Compared to traditional characteristics of photography, Hwang’s “Pixel” series does not focus on the “recording” process of a camera. Instead he harbors on “choice” and “magnification” of the image it produces. In order words, his works move away from the traditional conventional process of capturing a photographic image of an object to film strip, but rather focus on discovering a variety of pixels in different forms and colors as they appear. Hwang describes his “pixel” series as “the images that are shown in the photographs are not important, but the pixels within. Then, the photography is to be understood in a larger context of ‘image studies’ than seen through the narrow lens of formal history.” His interest on the basic concept of photography also stems from his experience with photojournalism working at Kyunghyang Newspaper and working at the United States in the 1970s.
Hwang (b.1938) graduated from Dongguk University as a political science major, worked as a photographer for Kyunghyang Newspaper from 1984 to 1992. Based on his socially critical view and sharp sense in different technologies used for photography, he has participated at various renowned institutions in Korea and Japan including Kumho Art Museum, Art Sonje Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Japan. His works are collected at a number of national and private institutions, such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Museum of Photography, Seoul.
Gyutae Hwang is one of the groundbreaking first-generation photographers in Korea. His interest in digital images in the 1980s led to new movement in Korea, including techniques using digital montage and collages. Through an extended cycle of experimentation, he now focuses on the concept of “pixels”—the base unit of images in all form consisting of dots. This artwork “Color Dots” selected for FIAC OVR highlights infinite possibility and visual potential of geometric figuration of “pixel” and the aesthetic that is the foundation of digital image. This artwork has been collected by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and has been exhibited in his retrospective exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.
Compared to traditional characteristics of photography, Hwang’s “Pixel” series does not focus on the “recording” process of a camera. Instead he harbors on “choice” and “magnification” of the image it produces. In order words, his works move away from the traditional conventional process of capturing a photographic image of an object to film strip, but rather focus on discovering a variety of pixels in different forms and colors as they appear. Hwang describes his “pixel” series as “the images that are shown in the photographs are not important, but the pixels within. Then, the photography is to be understood in a larger context of ‘image studies’ than seen through the narrow lens of formal history.” His interest on the basic concept of photography also stems from his experience with photojournalism working at Kyunghyang Newspaper and working at the United States in the 1970s.
Hwang (b.1938) graduated from Dongguk University as a political science major, worked as a photographer for Kyunghyang Newspaper from 1984 to 1992. Based on his socially critical view and sharp sense in different technologies used for photography, he has participated at various renowned institutions in Korea and Japan including Kumho Art Museum, Art Sonje Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Japan. His works are collected at a number of national and private institutions, such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Museum of Photography, Seoul.