Hong Seung-Hye

Open Window Beyond the Frame

Tracing the trajectory of Hong Seung-Hye’s prolific oeuvre, this publication reprints four essays penned by significant art agents in Seoul who have closely witnessed and worked alongside her throughout the past two

Eunah Park Director of Kukje Gallery

decades. Originally written in tandem with solo exhibitions that each served as a milestone in her career, this compilation of texts offers various vantage points through which to enter and read Hong’s work. Art activist Hwang In explains the grammar of her art in accordance with how the artist appropriates the mathematical vocabulary of geometry, while art and design critic Michael Lim (aka Chungwoo Lee) captures the nature of Hong’s alliance with one of her most intimate collaborators of all times—music. Beck Jee-sook, currently the director of Seoul Museum of Art, reminisces her project with Hong at Aterlier Hermès, where the artist was able to fully orchestrate the entirety of the exhibition space through her unique logic of geometry. And art historian Yun Nanjie narrates the mechanism of Hong’s calculated pixels forming organic collections of grids and dimensions.

Untitled, 1995 mixed media on cardboard, wood frame, 37 x 32 cm (14 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

Paper Landscape, 1992 acrylic on paper, 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

Paper Landscape, 1992 acrylic on paper, 29 x 25 cm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

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Open Window Beyond the Frame

Tracing the trajectory of Hong Seung-Hye’s prolific oeuvre, this publication reprints four essays penned by significant art agents in Seoul who have closely witnessed and worked alongside her throughout the past two

Eunah Park Director of Kukje Gallery

decades. Originally written in tandem with solo exhibitions that each served as a milestone in her career, this compilation of texts offers various vantage points through which to enter and read Hong’s work. Art activist Hwang In explains the grammar of her art in accordance with how the artist appropriates the mathematical vocabulary of geometry, while art and design critic Michael Lim (aka Chungwoo Lee) captures the nature of Hong’s alliance with one of her most intimate collaborators of all times—music. Beck Jee-sook, currently the director of Seoul Museum of Art, reminisces her project with Hong at Aterlier Hermès, where the artist was able to fully orchestrate the entirety of the exhibition space through her unique logic of geometry. And art historian Yun Nanjie narrates the mechanism of Hong’s calculated pixels forming organic collections of grids and dimensions.

Untitled, 1995 mixed media on cardboard, wood frame, 37 x 32 cm (14 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

Paper Landscape, 1992 acrylic on paper, 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

Paper Landscape, 1992 acrylic on paper, 29 x 25 cm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

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Organic Geometry, 1998 polyurethane coated serigraphy on cardboard, polyurethane on wood, 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3/4 in.) each

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Organic Geometry, 1998 polyurethane coated serigraphy on cardboard, polyurethane on wood, 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3/4 in.) each

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Organic Geometry, 1998 polyurethane coated serigraphy on cardboard, polyurethane on wood, 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3/4 in.) each

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Organic Geometry, 1998 polyurethane coated serigraphy on cardboard, polyurethane on wood, 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3/4 in.) each

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About Frame, 2014 polyurethane on steel, 39 x 39 x 20 cm (15 3/8 x 15 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.) each Private collection, New York

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On&On, 2014 polyurethane on steel, 49 x 120 x 49 cm (19 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)

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About Frame, 2014 polyurethane on steel, 39 x 39 x 20 cm (15 3/8 x 15 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.) each Private collection, New York

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On&On, 2014 polyurethane on steel, 49 x 120 x 49 cm (19 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)

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Installation view of Reminiscence at Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2014

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Installation view of Reminiscence at Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2014

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