Choi Jeong-Hwa

“Your heart is my art. Your shopping is my art”   "Plastic is...immortal."



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1000 Doors, Soeul, South Korea 2009





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1000 Doors - Close up. Soeul, South Korea 2009.





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Arco Museum covered in re-used banners.





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Trashy plastic bottle Foo Dog outside the Jamsil Olympic Stadium, Seoul, 2010.






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Jamsil Olympic Stadium dressed up for the Seoul Design Olympiad 2010.






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Jamsil Olympic Stadium dressed up for the Seoul Design Olympiad 2010.






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Jamsil Olympic Stadium dressed up for the Seoul Design Olympiad 2010.






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Plastic Paradise, OZ gallery, Paris, 1997.

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Plastic Strainer wall divider. Believe it or Not Exhibit, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, 2006.





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Plastic Bags on trees. Point Ephermere, Paris, France 2008.








Bright Junk Wall. SCAPEBiennial Christ Church, NZ, 2006.






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Happy, Happy LACMA, Los Angeles, 2009.
Discarded plastics on a chain link fence - visitors were encouraged to bring their own brightly colored plastic discards and attach them to the installation.






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Happy, Happy LACMA, Los Angeles, 2009.
The artist purchased his materials at nearby 99-cent Only Stores in LA.
A hole was drilled through the center of each piece and the objects strung.
Visitors were allowed to meander through and be consumed by the installation jostling the strung plastics to and fro while getting dizzy from the overload of color.





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Happy, Happy - LACMA, Los Angeles, 2009.






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Close up of Chandelier at the Red Hat Party, L.A, 2008.






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Gloves and high heel shoes. RedCat Gallery, LA, 2009.






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Flower Horse.
OK! exhibit Towada Art center, Japan, 2009.






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Fruit Tree, Soeul, South Korea.






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So Far So Good -- Lunapark, Stuttgart, Germany, 2001.






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Truth Exhibit Red Cat Gallery, LA.



Choi Jeong-Hwa is a Soeul, South Korea born and based artist who is considered the father of pop art installations. He integrates goods found and purchased from the local community where his work will be exhibited. In so doing he is making a statement as to each areas cultural influences yet is also clearly reminding us of our easy access to globalized goods and their distribution paths. Choi's work is all about consumption, portraying it with a sugar pop coating that momentarily takes away the ugliness of plastic, yet slaps us in the face with our over the top excesses.

Born 1961 in Seoul, Korea, Choi received a BFA at the Hong Ik University in Seoul. He has been included in the 51st Venice Biennale, 2004 Liverpool Biennial, 2002 and 2006 Gwangju Biennales, 1998 São Paulo Bienal, as well as exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum (solo), Mori Museum Tokyo; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Ilmin Museum, Seoul; and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton. Choi lives and works in Seoul.





 

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Deebrio
Posts: 1

Not so green
Reply #1 on : Tue May 08, 2012, 14:02:52

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I wouldn't call mot of these installations "green" or "environmentally friendly," as most of them were created using specifically purchased objects that in and of themselves create waste and consume resources. Surprised to see them on this site.