HyonGyon首个香港个展《IYOIYO》

　　Hyon Gyon
　　《IYOIYO》
　　
　　展览日期：2009年5月15日至6月27日
　　开幕酒会：2009年5月15日 晚上7:00-9:00
　　地点：Gallery EXIT 安全口画廊
　　香港中环善庆街1号地下
　　画廊开放时间：星期一至六1130-1930
　　
　　Gallery EXIT 安全口画廊将于2009年5月15日举行Hyon Gyon首个香港个展《IYOIYO》(中文：最后)。
　　
　　纠缠不清的头发、用来束扎纠结一团乱发的头簪刀，与及用作遮掩身体的韩国传统服饰chima jeogori 等等；表面上看似是唤起女性主义、身分认同等课题的符号象征。确实、Hyon Gyon是韩裔人，是一名现居于异国日本京都市的韩国女性，但不要被这些原素有所误导；尽管画中看来似是阴沈负面的图像，细看之下却又不难被内里释放出来充满生命力的色彩、光芒和能量所感染。
　　
　　她诉说的一切可以用韩语中的“han”来涵括，中文汉字写作「恨」，但她所指的并非单纯是字面上的意义，而是字里包含着的相对性 — 内部的消化、理解对比着向外面的排放、欲求和一股毁灭性的冲动；又或是从怨恨和爱情，忍耐和自弃，怜惜与残忍等等对立原素所建构成的单一力量。
　　
　　把伤痛化为幽默戏谑，并且带着自身生处韩裔血统的认知，她找到了一个独特的方法来作出对衡；她以第三者的身分，捕捉了发簪、乱发和祭仪中的神秘感和戏剧性，再演化成各种符征，然后将之升华为一种向外放射的能量。
　　
　　这次展覧裡的新作品比舊作擺放了更多多元文化影響下的原素，令色彩層次更感豐富。請細味領略她畫中那份義無反顧、勇往直前的澎湃力量。
　　いよいよ新時代已經來臨！
　　
　　安全口将于2009年5月14日至17日参加Art HK 09《香港国际艺术展》，地点为香港会议展览中心1号展览馆展览摊位E11。
　　
　　查询数据及图片请致电Doris Wong (2541 1299)或电邮至info@galleryexit.com
　　
　　Hyon Gyon
　　IYOIYO
　　
　　May 15 – June 27, 2009
　　Opening reception: Friday, May 15, 7-9pm
　　Location: Gallery EXIT, G/F, 1 Shin Hing Street, Central, Hong Kong
　　Gallery opening hours: Mon-Sat, 1130-1930
　　
　　Gallery EXIT?is pleased to present the opening on May 15, 2009 of?IYOIYO (Japanese word meaning “at last” in English), the first solo exhibition of Kyoto-based Korean artist Hyon Gyon in Hong Kong.
　　
　　Entangled hair, hair pins or swords pressing hair, and chima jeogori (Korean traditional outfit) that covers skin; these elements seem to evoke the issues of feminism and identity. Indeed, Hyon Gyon was born as a Korean woman, and now lives in a town in a foreign country, Kyoto. However, you should not be misled by these elements, because her works contain ugly images at first sight. What you receive from her works are, actually, full of colors, light and energy of life.
　　
　　She interprets “han”, a word in Korean, in her works. “Han” means grudge, and it holds more meanings then the word itself. Pointing out its oppositive character, she says the word lump the oppositive things together; like inwards digestion and outward emission, desire, impulse to destroy, hatred and love, patience and being despair, and mercy and cruelty.
　　
　　She converts pain into humor. Being aware of her own identity, she knows the way to overcome it. That’s why she, as a third person, uses hair pins, hair, spirituality and dramatics of ceremony as signals, sublimating them into outward energy.
　　
　　The new works of this exhibition contains multicultural motifs, which make the works more colorful. You could observe her determination and ongoing power in the works. “IYOIYO”, the time has come!
　　
　　Gallery EXIT will be participating in ART HK 09, May 14-17, 2009. Gallery booth is located at Booth E11, Hall 1, Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre.
　　
　　For more information and images, please contact Doris Wong at 2541 1299 or email info@galleryexit.com.