White pond

source: sculpturespaceorg

Jinsu Han is a multimedia artist from Seoul, Korea. He received his BFA and MFA from Hongik Univesity, Seoul, Korea and also earned his another MFA in sculpture and A Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Exploring poetic potentialities of routine days, Jinsu Han’s practices give the space a meditative narrative about memories involved with educations and cultures. He exhibited his works at numberous galleries and museums in Korea incloud six solo shows, and selected for the memorial outdoor sculpture in The 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan. He recently attended the artist-in-residency of triangle Art Association, NY in 2009.
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source: galleryreis

Gallery Reis is pleased to announce the Singapore inaugural exhibition “Under the Full Moon” by Korean artist, Han Jinsu. Featuring 14 works, Korean artist Han Jinsu’s exhibition “Under the Full Moon” will explore definitions of identity in various contexts through the use of kinetic art. Jinsu, born in 1970, is a leader in this particular field. This exhibition suggests the identity confusion the artist has felt through repetitive travels from the US to Korea. This intended display of tension is evidenced in a bubble machine that rotates on a toothed wheel in minutely set speed, constantly shooting bubbles in the air. According to the unpredictable flow of air and gravity, the bubbles fly freely and leave their own marks on the walls and floors. The exhibition is in essence a “live” scene capturing the collision of seemingly incompatible elements such as emotion vs. rationality, past vs. future, human vs. machine, dystopia vs. utopia.
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source: triangleworkshoporg

Jinsu Han’s most recent site-conditioned installations build up scenes of a natural phenomenon created by childish materials and the countless actions of simple machines. Because the processes are gradual and sensitive to the environment and its effects such as gravity, humidity and air current, the results are not only inevitable, but also accidental. They are in between certainness and uncertainness, and they grow and adapt to their own place and time coincidently. Through this, Han is dealing with the meditations in our lives and providing generous and fundamental metaphors for our commonness.