Cosmos
Hyun Mi Yoo
Hatje Cantz
Published in conjunction with the Ilwoo foundation
English
Hardcover
160 pages
179 x 242 mm
2013
ISBN 9783775735971
Inspired by many masters, Yoo’s work creates imaginary scenes with recombined fragments of reality, as occurs in dreams and stories. This book introduces a body of work that, beginning with sculptures and chemical processes, resulted in photography. The first stage consists of sculpting objects which are then installed in studio corners and oil-painted. Carefully chosen colors serve to remove the objects’ original material properties. Brush-painted light effects that take the interaction between objects and space into consideration are then applied as a means of completing formal compositions.
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About the Artist
Hyun-Mi Yoo was born in Seoul, Korea in 1964, and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Seoul National University, 1987; her Master of Arts from New York University, 1992; and her Assessment of Professional Competence from New York University, 1994.
Her body of work provacates the mind and eye through an artistic process that layers and layers, concealed within the final outcome. A fervent writer of short stories as well, Yoo extracts imageries and stories from her own collection to translate into the visual. The artist then blends a host of genres—sculpture, painting, photography, the architectural—to produce her works.
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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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