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"Asian Variegations: Group Exhibition" Chelsea Art Museum Opening on Thursday Dec.8th, 6-8PM

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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face=Verdana>For Immediate Release</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana>Sam Cho, Wei Jia, Jinsoo Kim, Hisako Kobayashi,</FONT></B></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Press Preview:</SPAN> Thursday, December 8, 5pm – 6pm; <EM>RSVP:</EM> </FONT><A href="http://mail2.daum.net/hanmail/mail/MailComposeFrame.daum?TO=press@chelseaartmuseum.org" target=emptyframe><B><FONT color=#0066cc face=Verdana>press@chelseaartmuseum.org</FONT></B></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Opening Reception</SPAN>: Thursday, December 8, 6pm – 8pm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Exhibition</SPAN>: Thursday, December 8 – Friday, December 23, 2011</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Chelsea Art Museum is pleased to present <B><I>Asian Variegations,</I></B> curated by <B>Dr.</B> <B>Thalia</B> <B>Vrachopoulos</B><B>.</B></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana>When referencing Asian art, many historic scholars have quoted Okakura Kakuzo’s <I>The Ideals of the East</I>, which contends that “Asia is One.” Alternately, in his seminal book <I>Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art</I>, Ernest Fenollosa also treated Chinese and Japanese arts together</FONT><A href="http://t.ymlp53.net/mqaxauqbhacaejqaaajmsm/click.php" target=_blank><FONT color=#0066cc face=Verdana>[1]</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana>. However, Fenollosa’s intention is not only to seek similarities but mostly to ascertain the differences between the arts of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Some of the most obvious general characteristics differentiating them are no longer relevant as they apply to conventional conceptions of Asian art, and not necessarily today’s globalized contemporary artist. For example, an important characteristic of traditional Chinese art is symmetry as opposed to Japanese art that embraces asymmetrical compositional styles. But these seemingly steadfast rules cannot be applied to the limitless boundaries of the modern artist or a contemporary context where, for example, canvases stripped of all color and form can be considered art.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana>The exhibition’s individual works may - to an extent – demonstrate important cultural and individual similarities and distinctions. Sam Cho, Wei Jia, Jinsoo Kim, Hisako Kobayashi, Lin Yan, Wang Ying, Hijo Nam, Yen-hua Lee and Lonnie Hong are in their mature period of their careers. Whether in painting, photography, or sculpture, they demonstrate both abstract and figurative modes. Wei Jia, Jinsoo Kim, and Hisako Kobayashi use an abstract style that is nevertheless fraught with content. Lin Yan, Wang Ying, Sam Cho, Hijo Nam, Yen-hua Lee, and Lonnie Hong work in an abstracted way inasmuch as their work contains some recognizable elements. However, in these works also, the subject matter contains issues of great personal as well as collective significance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana><B>Jinsoo Kim’s</B> abstract work deals with the conceptual underpinnings of art in that they examine the way we perceive the world. Consequently, his works depict spatial ambiguity while playing with 2-and-3-dimensional spatial constructions often favored in Korean art<I>.</I> <B>Sam Cho’s</B> oeuvre also engages with perception but in the subject of digital media and its representation in flat as well as rounded forms. However, Cho also imposes humanism into the lifeless and cold idiom of science and electronic technology. <B>Lonnie Hong’s</B> work references natural elements, but its man-made materials prompt a dialogue between the contrast of nature and culture. Hong’s pieces are small but are then collated into larger installations resulting in a synthetic statement. <B>Hijo Nam’s</B> <I>Brooklyn Night</I> (2010) is not so much a direct, raw representation as it is a combination of memories of a Brooklyn street and a manifestation of the artist’s own introspection and nostalgia for her home country of Korea. In particular, the work references <I>Han,</I> which in Korean can be understood as a cultural and emotional melancholic state of isolation that, in Nam’s case, is brought on by a profound longing for home. <B>Hisako Kobayashi’s</B> <I>Quiet Intensity</I> (2011) examines the primal rhythms within the ethereal layers of the painting. Kobayashi’s symphonies in color contain layer upon layer of cloud-like brushstrokes reminiscent of the Kamakura Period’s <I>Swift Raigo</I> works, which are a Japanese style of painting that would be brought into the home of one who is near death. Ranging from deep purples and ocean green overlaid by soft white netting, the work is meant to impact the viewer with its poetic delicacy<I>.</I> <B>Wei Jia’s</B> work, while abstract, utilizes literal hand-made paper materials alluding to calligraphic characters. Jia’s softly layered and colored hand-made paper forms appear like ethereal floating sea creatures. Jia deals with dualities such as light on dark, and soft against hard materials with calligraphy that render his work even more flat and conceptual. This is a cultural proclivity evident in the very philosophy of Taoism, which embraces opposites in the path to enlightenment wherein the yin and yang forms are both full and empty simultaneously.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana><B>Lin Yan’s</B> cast and torn paper works and black and white tones can be traced to the duality that exists between yin and yang, dark and light, and full and void, but her works are so much more complex. Yan’s <I>American Pie</I> (2011) and <I>Gray City #5</I> (2010) omits details and colors that may readily identify the subject matter, such as flags or the colorful façades of buildings. The simple forms speak to her relationship to minimalist aesthetics and post-modern modularity. <B>Wang Ying’s</B> <I>Mermaid</I> (2010), depicts a winged form lying in a bathtub that is surrounded by a diminishing body of water. It may be that Ying’s <I>Mermaid</I> alludes to an old Chinese legend but it could also be a comment about the artistic exchange that occurred during the World Expo 2010 wherein Copenhagen’s treasured <I>Little Mermaid</I> statue was shipped to Shanghai and was then temporarily replaced by a video installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The background of Ying’s work is imbued in a red post-apocalyptic hue, emphasizing the Mermaid’s distressed plight and could very well be reflective of the recent controversial events surrounding Ai Weiwei’s imprisonment.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana>Taiwanese artists in the recent decade use aboriginal or Austronesian art as a model to comment on contemporary issues and society. For instance, <B>Yen-hua Lee</B> appropriates found books from all over the world and takes them out of context by incorporating her own markings and drawings within the existing texts. Her artistic vocabulary takes form in its simplest shape in <I>Open and Closed</I> (2011).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana>Despite the artistically and culturally disparate artists represented in the exhibition, the works collectively rely on trans-cultural dialogue. In essence, it argues that Asian art is as rich and varied as that of the West and that the creation of art is a constant learning process. Furthermore, the exhibition intends to encourage the variegated dialogue between older and younger artists, as well as contends that the complexity of global cross-pollination and artistic dissemination between countries and continents will only enhance future artistic developments.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana><B><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Chelsea Art Museum</SPAN></B><B>,</B> Home of the Miotte Foundation, presents contemporary thematic exhibitions that foster critical thinking about today's world. CAM strives to cultivate respect for the world at large, exhibiting seminal, but relatively unexplored dimensions of 20th and 21st century art, particularly focusing on international artists that have less exposure in the United States. The museum is founded on the legacy of abstract expressionist painter, Jean Miotte, whose foundation is housed within the museum.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><FONT face=Verdana>For More Information:</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos | </FONT><A href="http://mail2.daum.net/hanmail/mail/MailComposeFrame.daum?TO=tvrachopoulos@gmail.com" target=emptyframe><FONT color=#0066cc face=Verdana>tvrachopoulos@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> | +1.212.691.7978</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://t.ymlp53.net/myatauqbharaejqaaajmsm/click.php" target=_blank><FONT color=#0066cc face=Verdana>[1]</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> Ernest Fenollosa. <I>Epochs of Chinese and Japanese art</I> (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York William Heinemann, London: 1912) p. xxiv</FONT></DIV>
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