Apr 3, 2019
Kwang Young Chun draws on his Korean heritage to make highly original abstract compositions called Aggregations. The thousands of hand-wrapped parcels that make up his sculpture-collages recall the way that druggists packaged medicines when he was a boy. The paper comes from vintage books, printed on the mulberry-pulp paper called hanji.
Posted by Joan Cummins Kwang Young Chun (Korean, born 1944). [Detail] Aggregation 17–SE078, 2017. Mixed media with Korean mulberry paper, 72 x 61 ½ in. (182.9 x 156.2 cm). Courtesy of Young Hwan Jeong