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    T-Yong Chung

    • OZ_T-Yong Chung, Contact 10, 2018, calcografy on handmade paper, framed, 37x43cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo. Ph. Luca Vianello.
    • OZ_T-Yong Chung, Contact 3(installation), 2018, calcografy on handmade paper, 24x31cm (each). Courtesy Otto Zoo. Ph. Luca Vianello.
    • T-yong Chung, performance at Field Meeting Take 4, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum & Asia Society, New York, November 2016
    • T-yong Chung, Lavinia, 2017, wax, 23 x 18 x 27 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-yong Chung, Lavinia #2, 2017, plaster bust, 23 x 18 x 27 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-yong Chung, Albero di Lavinia, 2017, plastic tubes, wax and bronze, 50 x 50 x 70 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2011, modified copy of Riace bronze, 18 x 12 x 55 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-yong Chung, Traccia 4, 2016, concrete / Augusto Giovanile, 2016, plaster bust, 14 x 14 x 32 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Traccia 8, 2014, concrete / Beatrice d'Aragona, 2014, plaster bust, 10 x 10 x 13 cm and 28 x 17 x 42 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Traccia 2, 2014, concrete, 20 x 20 x 18cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2011, c-print (polish up from abandoned iron tools), 110 x 90 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2012, c-print (polish up from abandoned iron tools), 90 x 110 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2014, photograph framed (polish up abandoned iron tools), 81 x 104 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2014, photograph framed (polish up from abandoned iron tools), 81 x 104 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Treasure, 2007, Sprayed gold paint on objects, 400 x 400 x 300 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2010, construction with abandoned chairs, 200 x 150 x 170 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2010, construction with abandoned chairs, 200 x 150 x 170 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2010, polish up from old shoovel, 150 x 40 x 20 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2011, polish up from abondoned iron tools, 160 x 160 x 35 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Compass, 2005, photograph framed, 90 x 65 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • T-Yong Chung, Untitled, 2009, ink on abandoned paper, 30 x 50 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo

    T-yong Chung’s is a Korean artist who has decided to live in Italy. His perception and personal experience of Italy is that of a cultural, iconographic and humanistic atlas from which he draws  inebriated inspirations and thoughts.

    He wanders freely, and he is curious,  attentive and attracted by some fundamentals which one can easily discover in his artworks: Classical Art, Arte Povera, Minimalism. Undoubtedly, his works transcend a continuous dialogue between past and present.

    His works portray the tension between the fullness of western culture and the essentiality of oriental culture. This creates a formal balance which is difficult to add to or take away from.  His sculptures  are defined although they seem unfinished and his mark is delicate yet vigorous.

    Often incorporating leftover materials, antique chairs, rusty tools, sheet metals, he dismantles, reassembles, smooths, polishes  the remnant  until it takes on a new identity , but still strongly linked to   its dignified past.
    His most recent works start with  plaster reproductions of classical busts and concrete models of everyday objects.

    He has recently started to approach  the portrait subject, focusing his research more on a real person than on a symbol. Here the classical approach is always present, but a sort of contemporary humanism seems to prevail.

    T-yong Chung (Tae-gu, South Korea, 1977) lives and works in Milan. In 2016, he participated in the ACAW, Field Meeting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Asia Society, New York and in the Gangjeong Contemporary Art Festival, The ARC, Tae-gu (South Korea). His works have been exhibited at the Lissone Museo d’arte contemporanea, Nuovo Spazio Espostivio of Casso as part of the Dolomiti Contemporanee festival,  Fondazione Spinola Banna of Torino, as well as the Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea of Trento. The artist also held solo exhibitions at Otto Zoo gallery, Milan, MARS, Milan and the Car Project Gallery, Bologna. He has additionally participated in various residencies and workshops in Italy, including at the Museo Carlo Zauli of Faenza, at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice and Madeinfinlandia in Pergine Valdarno.

    www.t-yongchung.com/

    Exhibitions at Otto Zoo

    → If you care to see me you should think about it, 2018
    → Odyssey in Italy, 2015
    → T-Yong Chung, 2011

    Special Projects

    → Lavinia, 2017

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