Thousands
Kyungwoo Chun
Hatje Cantz
German/English
Texts by Wulf Herzogenrath, Urs Stahel, Nils Ohlsen and Jiyoon Lee
Hardcover
128 pages
172 x 225 mm
2008
ISBN 9783775721677
More than four hundred years ago, a Chinese general by the name of Chun set off to Korea on a field campaign and remained there, becoming the first person with that name in Korea. Kyungwoo Chun, whose surname means “thousand,” travelled to China to visit the general’s birthplace, where countless Chuns reside today. For Thousands, the artist photographed one thousand people with the same surname as his: for him, each one represents thousands more who are now scattered around the globe. The portraits intensify the moment of encounter between the Korean artist, who lives in Germany, the Chinese, and countless Chuns all over the world—both a homecoming and a new beginning.
(source: https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/15953-kyungwoo-chun )
About the Artist
Kyungwoo Chun (*1969 in Seoul) has for many years now been working on photography projects and initiating performances in which the audience is actively involved. Chun attained international recognition through his portraits, many of which have a characteristic blurriness in their movements-the consequence of extended exposure times. As diverse as the artistic approaches seem at a first glance, Chun considers both the performances and the photographs to be in equal measure “visible manifestations of that which is not visible.”
http://www.kyungwoochun.com
(source: http://www.kyungwoochun.com/data/bio-cv/about.html )
About the Publisher
Hatje Cantz is an international publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, photography, design, and visual culture, founded by Gerd Hatje in Stuttgart in 1945. Since its inception, Hatje Cantz has been developing and publishing illustrated books with a special focus on quality, both in terms of content and production.
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