"David Jang: Prequel to 2018"
Opening Reception
Date: September 26, 2015Time: 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Don B. Huntley Gallery
Event Info
Date/Time:
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 3-6pm
Exhibition: September 21 - October 29, 2015
Location:
Don B. Huntley Gallery
Check out the Gallery Exhibition Below.
Gallery Exhibition | "David Jang: Prequel to 2018"About the Exhibition
Korean-born David Jang combines repurposed material with engineering and design to create monumental, humorous, and thought-provoking sculptures. Jang is considered one of the fastest up-and-coming young artists, garnering nationwide attention.
Jang’s exacting, fanciful and obsessive re-appropriation of common materials articulates the countervailing forces inherent in what is considered “the everyday” within our world. Through a special transformation of “everyday” materials into kinetically engineered and freestanding sculpture, he brings out poignant thoughts relating to expansion and contraction, perfection and imperfection, force and balance, having and lacking. He deconstructs, reprograms, and re-constitutes industrial and commercial cast-offs to reveal new relationships. Coded also into each of these objects, and the materials from which they are composed, are its life’s instructions. He examines these codes and the continuum of the objects, to discover the hidden subtexts and hierarchies they uphold. Ultimately, Jang’s work is about survival, or what he calls ‘life tactic’. In its performative aspect, he seeks to establish intimacy with the consumer material, transforming it into “machines that are at once hilarious, frightening, and charming.”