Traces of Dissolution
Exhibition 4th Feb to 24th Feb http://ori-berlin.de/traces-of-dissolution-spuren-des-aufloesens/ Construction sites, abandoned buildings and accumulations of ownerless objects are hallmarks of Berlin, which have attracted numerous artists and tourists since the 90s. Chung Ka Chun dedicates his work to this myth of deserted places in his painting assemblages, which he composes from objects trouvés and fragments of decaying surface structures. His archaeological view searches for the memory of those things that transcend their functionalist relationship in everyday life and enter into a new relationship with their surroundings. The old, deteriorated surfaces are imitated with oil paint, their exfoliated plaster and crumbling concrete looks strangely realistic, the found objects seem lifted and protected. They refer to the alienation and decontextualization which these elements if everyday urban life experience in their new surroundings, that the studio or the exhibition space. Chung Ka Chun continues this alienation on a pictorial level in his more recent works. He alienates the color from the canvas and the canvas from its frame. These works move on the threshold between abstract and concrete art and play with the purported contrast between the gravity of the material and the volatility of the idea, between estrangement and memory. curated by Sandra Lippert |