Joseph Cornell, A Gemini Mind, And The Beautifully Boring
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I worked as an art critic many years ago, and recently I had occasion to dig up the gallery reviews I wrote for a New York magazine while I was living in China. In one, I wrote about the Korean artist Son Bong Chae, who was then showing his work in Shanghai. For these works, Son collected photographs of the Korean countryside, often sites of invasion, war and disruption, then placed multiple images of the same location on top of one another in separate layers. These layers were mounted onto transparent acrylic sheets inside a series of three-dimensional light boxes.
Joseph Cornell, A Gemini Mind, And The Beautifully Boring
Joseph Cornell, A Gemini Mind, And The…
Joseph Cornell, A Gemini Mind, And The Beautifully Boring
I worked as an art critic many years ago, and recently I had occasion to dig up the gallery reviews I wrote for a New York magazine while I was living in China. In one, I wrote about the Korean artist Son Bong Chae, who was then showing his work in Shanghai. For these works, Son collected photographs of the Korean countryside, often sites of invasion, war and disruption, then placed multiple images of the same location on top of one another in separate layers. These layers were mounted onto transparent acrylic sheets inside a series of three-dimensional light boxes.