[WHO]
Hyun Cho is a South Korean native, born and raised. Hyun Cho has completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts from theUniversity of Sydney in Australia and a Master of Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Cho’s solo exhibitions include; “DOES FLUXUS STILL EXIST ?”, Galleria Ramo, Como, Smoking Channel, Edicola Radetzky, Milano, CODE Is wATER, DISPLAY, Parma in 2018, “Midnight Deli”, Open Space Baltimore, MD in 2016, “YAYAYA”, Conduits Arts, Melbourne, Australia in 2014, and “Rocking On Empty”, Fowler Project Space, NY in 2013.
My sculptures encompass a variety of forms and scales. I present those comprised of disassembled kinetic and mechanical components to show my ongoing investigation with language, poetry and lyricism.
Found objects have an innate potential of deviation, contradicting their intended applications or functions. I reassemble them as minimalist sculptures divorced from the orthodoxy of their previous limitations. I use materials like aluminum, reflective safety tape, disassembled skateboard parts and LEDs. I also replicate silicon sculptures for their tactile quality of a pleasant and forbidden essence.
The union of text and sculptures form the basis of my most recent set of projects. The lyrical patterns of popular music have inspired my own texts, as I deconstruct their forms and apply their stylistic traits to my own text-based sculptures. I have created a variety of brief texts, with examples including “Ask My Daddy” and “Crucial Babe No.1.” These are phraseological statements in and of themselves, functioning as self-contained syntactic sculptures; a counterpart to the rephrased physicality of my found objects.
[WHAT]
A Checklist: A / Cast sculptures in silicone, acrylic box 30 x 50 x 4 cm 2020 
A Checklist: B / Cast sculptures in silicone, cement, latex rubber glove 23 x 12.5 x 4 cm 23 x 13 x 4 cm 2020 
Ask My Daddy / Neon on acrylic panel 2016 
Cliff /LED, reflective safety tape, aluminum profile, acrylic, skateboard wheel 65.5 x 33 x 8 cm 2020 
Driving / Color changing remote controlled LED, reflective safety tape, aluminum pipe, skateboard truck 59.5 x 54 x 13.5 cm 2020 
Driving / Color changing remote controlled LED, reflective safety tape, aluminum pipe, skateboard truck 59.5 x 54 x 13.5 cm 2020 
Hurricane Billy One / Concrete blocks, skateboard parts, resin, house paint 19 x 78 x 14 cm 2016 
Midnight / Skateboard part, metal, pulley, spray paint, cable, LED signage, LED strip light 175 x 16 x 50 cm 2017 / The LED signage repetitively plays my poem Crucial Babe No.1.
Crucial Babe No.1
He is such a crucial babe
He is such a crucial babe
He is such a crucial babe
She is from street oh no
She is from street oh no
She is looking at him oh no
You want it
She got it
He is holding her apples oh no
He is such a crucial babe
He is such a crucial babe
He is such a crucial babe
She is from street oh no
She is from street oh no
She is looking at him oh no
She got it
You want it
He is holding her apples oh no
He is talking like Hurricane Billy oh no
Pink Guitar No.1 / Alumium profile, acrylic, sneaker, resin, reflective tape, LEDs 90.5 x 32 x 3 cm 2020 
Smoking Fountain / LED light strip, reflective safety tape, aluminum pipe, acryic, angle bracket 53.5 x 74 x7.5 cm 2020 
Smoking Fountain / LED light strip, reflective safety tape, aluminum pipe, acryic, angle bracket 53.5 x 74 x7.5 cm 2020 
The Neighborhood Neon / Neon on aluminum 70 x 70 x 10 cm 2017
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