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Massimo Audiello is pleased to announce the second solo show of Changha Hwang. The exhibition will open on Thursday, October 28 and run through December 18, 2004. The opening reception is Thursday, October 28 from 6 to 8 pm.
Since his last show in New York, Changha Hwang has expanded his exploration and the possibilities of his method of chance and negation. The overly saturated compositions stand on the juxtaposition of precisely controlled microcosms that subvert and negate each other, while the palette allows every kind of chromatic experiment.
Changha's Eastern attitude of games and chance seems an ambiguous metaphor for the multiple possibilities that cyber technology offers. He discovers in the language of abstraction a new way to disrupt composition, stimulating the viewer to continuously zoom in and out of the picture; offering multiple coexisting views suggestive of the computer monitor and the new television screen challenging us to be aware of numerous different channels at the same time.
The idea to add new signs to the language of abstraction as a continuing goal makes Changha into a consequential follower of artists such as Jonathan Lasker or Fabian Marcaccio, who methodically integrate new pop and technoculture vernaculars into their work.
Along with the multiple possibilities of cyber viewing, there are many emotional implications as well, with a variety that spans from a playful kid-toy world to jazzy urban electric fogs.
The tension built by his geometric stratifications imbues the work with obsessive cerebral energy not unlike Yayoi Kusama or Atsuko Tanaka, where schemes and circuits, cells and particles stay on the fringe of urban planning and mind bubbling.
The energy created by Changha's multiple structures conjures to an implosion where the linear rhythms are brought closer to a breaking point but then again resolve themselves in a playful, mathematical harmony, perhaps a manifestation of our seductive but dangerous lives.
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