A project team named ‘Melona’ is about to wake languid spring in April as if it is “stirring Dull roots with spring rain”(quoted from 'The Waste Land' by T.S Eliot)
'fragile-meissen: Why do you hit me?' by Kim Joon announces spring while fragile bodies covered in flowers and birds are overlapped by mixing in compulsion and desire from the artist.
On the one hand, 'Never forget', 'Paddy field ground', 'Hut', 'Blue Sky' sketch the joyful scenery like a daydream in the middle of a spring afternoon. Artists’ imagination and their daily lives over planting fields, the sky, small towns in the countryside invite us to verdant lane surrounded by skyscrapers.
The relaxing spring of a middle aged artist, Kim Joon and the spring season among 20’s artists, who are continuously looking for the right path in their life, respectively communicate with various audiences at different ages by their distinct gaiety.




Date  2010.04.05 - 2010. 4.30
(8:30 a.m. - 7:00p.m., closed on weekends and holidays)
Venue  COMO tower ( Seoul SKT-tower, Daejeon SKT Building), W Seoul-Walkerhill
Entrance Fee  Free
Organized by Art Center Nabi, SK Telecom
Contact  Researcher JeongWon Chae 02-2121-1030




Artwork


fragile-meissen: why Do you hit me?
Kim Joon, 2010, 3D animation

Through 'Fragile'series, he empties his body which was the subject of desire and people standing in front of his work are brought into the artwork. This series makes bodies out of fragile porcelain in order to get rid of any desire that reminds us of human flesh, although it consists of imaginary bodies. Bodies covered in tattoos are feebly scattered after they are no longer the subject of desire and then they are not able to crave for anything.
However, we might happen to lie down in our own weak and empty bodies and look for another tattoo in our minds. 'fragile' aims to wake new lives while it blends our memories and desire as like spring rain stirs dull roots.


Never forget 1. 2
GaRam Hong, 2010, 3D animation

Look at unfamiliar things in unban spaces.
That is great if you think ‘hum, this artwork doesn’t fit with its landscape at all’ as you see it.


Blue Sky
TaeSeok Kim, 2010, 3D animation

Go swimming, flying, going fishing, peeing, empting the bowel, playing the guitar, drinking alcohol and drawing a picture….. It’s so exciting!


Paddy field ground
JuHyung Lee, 2010, 3D animation

Some small events happened around me when I was living in Gongju last year


Hut
Minbyum Kang, 2010, 3D animation

Peeing on the street……heavenly



Artist


Melona
Kim Joon, TaeSeok Kim, JuHyung Lee, HeeJun Jang, JinHee Jung, GaRam Hong, Minbyum Kang

Melona is a project team made up media artist Kim Joon and postgraduate students from Gongju University Department of Cartoon animation. Melona dreams of the attractive, romantic and drowsy world through media art experiments based on the form of animation.