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SUNG Neung-Kyoung, <Eight Newspaper Pages>, Photography, tape, 60x50cm x 128pcs, 1977
SUNG Neung-Kyoung, <Newspapers: After the 1st of June 1974>, Newspaper, panel, acrylic tub, Newspaper: 87x63x5cm x 4 panels, Case: 90x70x65cm, 1974
SUNG Neung-Kyoung, <Newspaper>, Panel, newspaper 87x63x5cm x 4 pcs, 1974
[Korea]SUNG Neung-Kyoung Newspapers: After the 1st of June 1974
Sung Neung-Kyoung began working as an artist with his start at the Korea Contemporary Artists Invitation Exhibition in 1968 and the second ST exhibition. Sung Neung-Kyoung’s initial works in which he cut out newspaper articles with razors present a strong critical spirit and conceptual ideas. Based on his interest in linguistics and semiotics, he rejected the language of newspapers concerned with daily life and events and showed a resistance to an authoritative system which forms dominant information and discussions into the media. Newspapers; From June 1, 1974 On is one of his representative works. In this work articles were cut out and placed inside a plastic box whereupon he repeated the process of pasting the cut newspaper articles to a wall in order to accuse the media of fabricating facts, resisting them with all of his being. |
