KYUNG ROH BANNWART

Website

http://kyungrohbannwart.info

College / University

Central St. Martins College of Art & Design (London)

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Video

I am...

I explores the possibilities of installation art. My recent creative participations include the exhibitions: ‘Tempography’ in Gallery Factory (Seoul, 2008) as a curator as well as participating artist, ‘à ses parents - Variations autour de Le Corbusier’ (Swtizerland, 2006) as an art director as well as participating artist, ‘6 Via Neuchâtel’ (Switzerland, 2007), and ‘Pan!Dimanche’ (Paris, 2007) exhibiting painting installations.

I have also been involved in experimental book design projects, magazines, festivals, graphic design for different companies and professionals in London and Switzerland.

Born in Seoul, lives and works in London, Switzerland, and Seoul.

About my artwork

My artistic practice is based on the study of the intermediate space and ‘transitional objects’, exploring the possibilities of installation art. Employing the effects from different media such as painting, sculpture, sound, light, and objects, I create a structure, ‘the geometric place’ of emotional and physical experiences. My latest interest is to integrate painting as an element into installation art, specially combining it with moving image which is constructed in a form inspired by Diorama, multi-layered panels (paintings) and re-directed light (projected moving image).

Combine painting
My endeavour is the reaction against the attitude that ‘painting is an end in itself, perfect and finished’, and the extended response to ‘the idea of plural creation turned into 3-dimensional space’. Rauschenberg has explored the possibilities of painting assorting photography, printing, found objects into painting and made a series of Combine painting. My interpretation of contemporary Combine painting is to integrate painting into a structure and give ‘life-possibilities’, which we must circle or act upon, looking at it from all sides, experiencing with different senses. Conventional medium, painting, thus, can play an element in conceptual contemporary installation art. It involves the sense of transition created by the interaction between the work and the performance by the viewer, the physical/active viewing. Each painting uniquely has the method of installation, which differentiates from the conventional way of painting display on white walls, as it is now the site-specifically installed in a 3 dimensional structure. The content depicted in painting is often cropped and arranged parts of bigger images - landscape usually - deconstructed from its original context and re-built to represent propsed sentiment.