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Article: Hwang Young Sung and Bae Young Jin at Parsons School of Design.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Merging tradition with modernism, and art with craft, Korean artist Hwang Young Sung and clothing designer Bae Young Jin joined forces recently in a collaborative show at Parsons School of Design. The senior Hwang (b. 1941) contributed paintings, metal reliefs, objects, cut-paper works and ceramics, all utilizing a lexicon of folk-based graphic forms which Bae (b. 1956) translated into stitched, appliqued and cutout elements of garments which boldly update indigenous Korean styles, materials and colors.
Hwang's formal vocabulary comprises a wide range of cartoony shapes, halfway between depictions and abstracted signs, representing aspects of peasant life and ...