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Me: don’t post anymore blue pictures Me to me: post more blue pictures 📸: @katanneclaire #mar072019 #brooklyn #brooklynmuseum #art #kwangyoungchun (at Brooklyn Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7OqGaiHd1C/?igshid=1j8xr7yqwyv02

[monsterinmytumtum]

To quote @katanneclaire “Bro if you like blue, name 5 of its songs” 📸: @katanneclaire #mar072019 #brooklynmuseum #brooklyn #art #kwangyoungchun (at Brooklyn Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7On6V3nkpF/?igshid=1cxx3c6q4sjma

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Me, being shocked that you spilled the tea when I asked you spill the tea. 📸: @katanneclaire #mar072019 #brooklyn #brooklynmuseum #art #kwangyoungchun #aggregation18 (at Brooklyn Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7MLzj7n_UU/?igshid=1m1353v8watlj

[brooklynmuseum]

Closing this Sunday, experience six works by South Korean artist Kwang Young Chun that are simultaneously Space Age and nostalgic, beautiful and violent, powerful and fragile. Tag your photos with #mybkm for a chance to be featured next!  

Photos by recent visitors bklyn_saiyan, _vibrantvicki, jenwith5chicks, mitch.bleier, bygabrielagil, cleverkatherine, miranda_cerny, lizosensual and m.y.l.i.e.n

[brooklynmuseum]

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

[brooklynmuseum]

Some of artist Kwang Young Chun’s Aggregation pieces recall the surface of the moon. The landscapes are full of visual trickery: the “craters” are actually flat planes, darkened to look like they’re concave. And the “rocks” that ,make up this terrain are actually little paper-wrapped packages: soft, light-weight, man-made, and fragile.

See Chuns Aggregations on view in our Arts of Korea galleries.

Posted by Joan Cummings ⁣⁣Kwang Young Chun (Korean, born 1944). Aggregation 15–AU043, 2015. Mixed media with Korean mulberry paper. Courtesy of Young Hwan Jeong

[brooklynmuseum]

Did a meteorite land in the Brooklyn Museum? No it’s a sculpture by South Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, made entirely from little paper-wrapped packets. The piece is on view in the Arts of Korea gallery, along with other works by the artist and a selection of Korean works of art from the 12th through the 20th century, all relating to paper, writing, and reading. 

Posted by Joan Cummings

[brooklynmuseum]

South Korean artist Kwang Young Chun's Aggregations are simultaneously Space Age and nostalgic, beautiful and violent, powerful and fragile. See six of his sculptural compositions now on view in our Arts of Korea galleries.

Kwang Young Chun (Korean, born 1944). Aggregation 17–NV089, 2017. Mixed media with Korean mulberry paper. Courtesy of Young Hwan Jeong