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Lot Essay
Encompassing both sculptural and collage-like qualities, Choi So Young's dexterous use of recycled denim portrays a notion of artifice often associated with dense cityscapes. Her clever and quirky use of this non-traditional medium establishes her innovative aesthetic ability to create beyond the ordinary. Both multi-textured Apartment (Lot 503) and Under Cloud (Lot 504), featured here, are lively homages to her hometown in Busan, Korea.
Apartment well demonstrates Choi's fascinating use of different colored denim and play of texture. Amassed precisely in combining the diverse components of material, she skillfully composes them to bring memories of her hometown to life. In Under Cloud, Choi's tuneful control of the composition and surprisingly eloquent coloring of the yellow sky unwinds the rigid characteristic of denim to a softer, expressive and metaphoric layer. In sync with the confined structure of the building walls in the middle of the work, Choi skillfully locks the border of the picture from expanding to a larger vista, distinctively cornering the audience's vision into a narrowed distance of the town. In both works, the city's charm is accentuated by the graceful subtleties of blue summoning a dream like atmosphere, dazing the audience's thoughts to paint scenarios to bond a personal dialogue to the city. Choi skillfully liberates the audience out of the hectic noise of the city into a hushed distance to overlook the metropolis, tranquilly meditating the audience to build a fondness to the city, in which the utilization of denim furthers the appeal as universally recognized comfortable attire.
Apartment is offered on behalf of the artist herself, and all proceeds of the sale will go to selected NGO organizations including Friends of Cambodia.
Apartment well demonstrates Choi's fascinating use of different colored denim and play of texture. Amassed precisely in combining the diverse components of material, she skillfully composes them to bring memories of her hometown to life. In Under Cloud, Choi's tuneful control of the composition and surprisingly eloquent coloring of the yellow sky unwinds the rigid characteristic of denim to a softer, expressive and metaphoric layer. In sync with the confined structure of the building walls in the middle of the work, Choi skillfully locks the border of the picture from expanding to a larger vista, distinctively cornering the audience's vision into a narrowed distance of the town. In both works, the city's charm is accentuated by the graceful subtleties of blue summoning a dream like atmosphere, dazing the audience's thoughts to paint scenarios to bond a personal dialogue to the city. Choi skillfully liberates the audience out of the hectic noise of the city into a hushed distance to overlook the metropolis, tranquilly meditating the audience to build a fondness to the city, in which the utilization of denim furthers the appeal as universally recognized comfortable attire.
Apartment is offered on behalf of the artist herself, and all proceeds of the sale will go to selected NGO organizations including Friends of Cambodia.