TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE, 43A West 13th Street, in New York City proudly presents
Sungho Choi: Forever Young & Gamin: Dreams Paradise
Korean traditional music concert will present by Gamin and the solo exhibition by Sungho Choi. The Special event will be on Tuesday, December 13th, from 8:30PM.
Program
*Sangryungsan for Piri
*Gyungpungnyun for Saengwhang
*Sounds as a symbolic sign for Piri & Percussions - composed by Hyejin Yun
*Yellow After The Rain - composed by Mitchell Peters
*Frogs - composed by Keiko Abe
*Duologue for Saengwhang & Marimba - composed by Taejong Park
*Memories for Piri & Contrabass - improvised by Gamin & Tomoya
*Mori for Piri & Marimba - composed by Jeongkyu Park
Player
Gamin Hyosun Kang (Piri & Saengwhang) is a yisuja of the Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for piri and Daechita, and one of the most celebrated piri and taepyeongso (Korean traditional oboe family) performers in Korea today. Gamin has received numerous awards and prizes from some of the most prestigious music competitions, including the grand prize from Nangye Gugak Competition in 1993, Dong-A Gugak Competition in 1996, and the New Artist Award from the Korean Art Critics Association in 2006. From 2001 to 2010, she was a member and assistant principal player of the Contemporary Gukak Orchestra at the National Gukak Center, the hub for training and preserving Korean traditional music. Interested in producing her own music, she has released three albums; “Attraction” was the first album made to popularize the piri to the general public. The “Juxtaposition” explores the harmony between an oriental instrument, piri and the western instrument marimba. The third album, “Progression” contains more progressive contemporary music that features various instruments including synthesizer. Today, she produces interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with international artists, and expands her musical real to multi-complex art projects in new formality. Her recent project, “Eight Sounds,” utilizes the structure of a museum as a means to express her artistic vocabulary. In 2011, she was a recipient of residency program grant from the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and has toured for lecture concert at Harvard University, Dartmouth University, and University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. She also gave a solo recital and recorded improvisational works with local musicians at Bennett Media Studio in New York. Currently, she is a Ph. D. candidate in traditional music at Seoul National University and writes her own column for the magazine, “Arts and Culture.”
Tomoya Aomori (Marimba, Percussions, Contrabass) As a recipient of the William Schuman Prize, Tomoya Aomori graduated from The Juilliard School with a double major in Percussion and Double Bass. As a percussionist, he is a frequent sub with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and has played concertos with the Juilliard Orchestra, Children’s Orchestra Society, and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra. He was featured at Alice Tully Hall’s Opening night performing Osvaldo Golijov’s “Mariel” with cellist Maya Beiser, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Met Chamber Ensemble performing Pierre Boulez’s “Sur Incises” under James Levine. In the summer of 2011 he gave a 4-mallet marimba masterclass at The Juilliard Percussion Seminar directed by Joseph Gramley, a member of the Silk Road Ensemble.
As a Double Bassist, he is a regular performer with the New York Chamber soloists, and has attended worldwide music festivals such as the Lucerne Festival Academy (Switzerland), Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany), and the Pacific Music Festival (Japan). He won the International Society of Bassists Young Bassist Competition in 2003. As an educator he is currently a Double Bass professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music - QC Queens College and faculty/conductor at the Children’s Orchestra Society.
Artist
Born in Seoul, Korea, Sung Ho Choi has lived and worked in New York metropolitan area since 1981. Choi earned his BFA at Hongik University and also earned an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York. In 1996, Choi completed two permanent murals, My America and American Pie commissioned by the Percent for Art program in NYC for IS 5 in Elmhurst, NY City. In 2004, he completed another permanent public art project, Quiltroad for the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Seattle, WA, commissioned by U.S. General Services Administration, Washington, DC in1999. From the mid 90’s he earned prestigious grants such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Artists’ Project Grant from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and the award from AHL Foundation. Nearly 30 years, His works have been exhibited at the numerous galleries and the museums such as Kumho Museum of Art, Queens Museum of Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery NY, Gallery Korea NY and Korean American Museum in LA.
From the beginning of the world man has dreamt of maintaining good health and living longer, a subject reflected in the title of this show Forever Young. As a first generation immigrant artist Sung Ho Choi has experienced a dual identity and both Eastern and Western, and traditional and contemporary aspects in his art. Because his two cultural backgrounds co-exist in his work, it appears up to the minute. For this show, Choi presents two different styles of work. One is the recent work executed with lottery tickets and the second is a series of line-drawing work.
In the series Forever Young we find the idea of contemplation about longevity as one of the oldest and strongest human desires. Longevity is presented on 5 huge wood panels comprised of lottery tickets filled in with tiny circles of more lottery tickets that result in 21st century pointillist composition. These can be associated to the panoramic landscape views of Ship Jang Saeng (ten symbols of long life) produced in the nineteenth century during the Chosun Dynasty. The longest and most powerful of human desires for longevity, and riches through lottery winnings is invariably the dream. One of Chosun Dynasty’s famous artists’ Angyeon’s painting Mongyu dowondo was reproduced as a Dreamscape by Choi. Tenri University’s library in Japan owns this painting that was a dream scene of Prince Anpyeong. In his dream Anpyeong felt the enchantment of nature like a utopia. Choi also overlapped two subjects that, like a conflated dream, combine Chosun Dynasty landscapes with the mundane and materialistic symbols of modern times. Also in Crossing he utilized unique motifs from Mexican traditional textile designs to create cross-stitch type patterns on smoothly collaged American lottery tickets on fabric. This piece is a metaphorical patchwork of the economic and cultural dynamics between Mexico and America, and the expression of voices of Mexican illegal immigrants’ crossing over the border into the U.S.
His earlier work the Tree-Ring series was influenced by enormous energy in the simple lines of the annual rings of several hundred year old tree trunks at the Bronx Botanical Garden. Choi drew fine lines from the outside to the inside and to the center in ring-formations to express the repeated slow behavioral progress in time as it expresses a strong natural energy at the vortex in the center. Choi’s Tree-Ring series and the recent work on the lottery ticket series both shown here will demonstrate the epic biography of his work which starts with line and ends at the dot.
Sung Ho Choi wishes to dedicate this exhibition to his beloved son Jee Hoon Choi (1989-2011).
For More Information:
Tenri Administrative Director Mr. Michael Yuge at Yuge@tenri.org, or 212-645-2800
텐리 갤러리, 43A West 13th street, in New York City 주최,
최성호 개인전: 영원한 젊음 & 한국 전통 피리 연주자 가민: 꿈의 파라다이스
이번 특별 이벤트는 12월 13일 화요일 저녁 8: 30분 부터 시작 됩니다.
연주 곡
*피리독주 상령산
*생황독주 경풍년
*기호로서의 소리 - 윤혜진 작곡
*Yellow After The Rain - Mitchell Peters
*Frogs - Keiko Abe
*생황과 마림바를 위한 듀오로그 - 박태종 작곡
*추억 – 즉흥연주
*피리와 마림바를 위한 모리 - 박정규 곡
연주자
*가민 (강효선) 피리. 생황연주자
서울대학교 음악대학 국악과 박사과정수료
중요무형문화재 제46호 피리정악 및 대취타 이수자
국립국악원 창작악단 부수석 역임
협연 - KBS국악관현악단, 서울시립국악관현악단, 경기도립국악단, 국립국악원
초청연주 - 미국,독일,벨기에,프랑스,카자흐스탄 등 다수
2011 문화관광부 선정 뉴욕 레지던시 아티스트
*토모야 아오모리 - 타악기. 마림바. 콘트라베이스 연주자
아티스트
*최성호
홍익대학교 미술대학을 거쳐 뉴욕 부루클린의 프랫 대학원을 졸업한 최성호 작가는1981년부터 뉴욕에서 아주 활발한 작품활동을해왔습니다.
최성호 작가의 영구설치 작품으로는 뉴욕시에서 주관한 예술 프로젝트로 나의 아메리카 와 아메리칸 파이 두작품을 완성하여 뉴욕시 엠허스트에 그리고 워싱턴주 시애틀 연방 법원에는 그의 또다른 작품 “퀼트로드”가 영구 전시 되고 있으며 현재 그의 작품은 미국 순회전을 하고 있습니다.
최성호 작가의 수상 경력을 보면 아트 프로젝트를 위한 국가의 문화 기금을 비록하여 폴락-크랜스너 재단, 록펠러 재단 그리고 앤디 워홀 재단 등등의 유수한 재단으로부터 예술 기금을 수상 받았으며 한인 미술 재단인 알재단에서 선정한 아티스트 상을 받은바 있습니다.이렇게 최성호 작가의 작품은 30년 동안 퀸스아트 뮤지움, 금호 미술관등등의 뮤지움 그리고 한국 문화원과 수많은 갤러리 그리고 뉴욕 SUNY 대학에서의 개인전 등등 통해 널리 알려진바 있습니다.
오랜 시간동간 인간이 꾸어온 꿈 불로장생, 시간과 공간의 흐름속에서도 변함이 없는 영원한 젊음을 간직하고 싶다는 그 인간의 이룰수 없는 꿈과 희망은 이번 최성호 작가 개인전의 주제 입니다. 이민 일세대 작가로써 최작가는 자신이 체험하였던 동서양의 전통과 문화를 그는 작품속에 현대화하여 동시에 공존하게 함으로써 고리타분 하지 않은 현대화 된 전통을 보여줍니다. 이번 개인전에 선보이는 작품은 두가지로 나눌수 있는데 복권티켓을 사용한 최근작 점묘 씨리즈와 나무의 나이테를 컨셉으로한 그의 초기작 선 시리즈 입니다.
그의 초기작 나이테 시리즈는 그의 최근작인 복권 시리즈 작품과 함께 이번 전시에 선보임으로 선에서 시작하여 점으로 다다른 그의 작품의 일대기를 서사적으로 보여주게 될것입니다.
최성호 작가는 이번 개인전을 지난 3월 교통사고로 잃은 미술학도였던 큰 아들 최지훈 군에게 바칩니다.
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