MECHA - Seung Pyo Hong (solo exhibition) @ BEARSPAC

MECHA - Seung Pyo Hong (solo exhibition) @ BEARSPACE
10 April 2010 - 08 May 2010
Private View: 09 April 2010 6.30 - 8.30pm
BEARSPACE is pleased to present MECHA, new large scale drawings and metal plate etchings by Korean artist Seung Pyo Hong, in his first ever solo exhibition.

Hong has created a range of new works for the exhibition. Having previously worked in a variety of mediums, including installation, oil pastels and etching, Hong has produced a collection of hand drawings and paintings, combining a number of production methods creating his own personal style.

His work depicts complex imagery of the organic and the mechanical. Hong believes that our habitat is now made up of technology and machinery, as opposed to a natural environment. This environment is affective and influential within our lives, eventually becoming our reason for evolution. The artist has created a comment on the current social and economic world, through the anthropomorphism of the machinery he depicts. He presents ideas of conflict, opposition, metamorphosis and process.

PRINT NOW @ BEARSPACE Gallery

Open: 27 February – 27 March, 2010     Wednesday – Saturday 12.30-5 pm

Private View: Friday 26 February, 6.30-8.30 pm**

(in association with Deptford Last Fridays http://www.deptfordartmap.com

BEARSPACE launches PRINT NOW, an innovative exhibition of new works by emerging artists based on the concept of PRINT as a medium and a repetitive process. Works range from sculpture constructed from recycled printed fliers, to etching on aluminium and lithograph. 

 

Artists have been selected by a panel of curators and writers who are specifically concerned with emerging art, including Julia Alvarez, Director of BEARSPACE, Kay Saatchi, collector and curator, Pryle Behrman, writer and curator of Art Projects and Mike Sims, Deputy Editor of Printmaking Today. Guest artists including David Shrigley and Billy Childish have also been invited to exhibit to represent artists working with print techniques and repetitive processes in a unique and successful way.

 

Prices range from £25 - £700 for edition prints and one off works.  Portfolios of artwork selected by the panel will also be available, as a sample of some of the most exciting works on display. All works will also be available online via www.bearspace.co.uk  and www.culturelabel.com  

**All available artworks will be available for 15% deduction on the opening night only (Friday 26 February, 6.30-8.30 pm) 

For a full list of available works please go to http://www.bearspace.co.uk/catalogue

Image: Phil Ashcroft, Yeti Over Mount Fuji with Shooting Star,’ 2009