The Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) Australia presents a new photo exhibition, Light Shadow: Koo Bohnchang on 28 August 2020.
Light Shadow: Koo Bohnchang, which will be held until 13 November 2020 as part of the Head On Photo Festival, is the first solo exhibition of South Korea's leading photographer Koo Bohnchang here in Australia, and will be an opportunity to experience the unique beauty of Korean baekja (white porcelain) through 39 photographs that feel like intimate portraits as the ceramics appear as if they have been given new life through Koo’s lens.
Koo, fascinated by the subtlety of baekja, began to capture the white porcelain on camera in 2004 by traveling around major museums around the world. The artist, who is well known to express the white porcelain's most white porcelaneous colour and energy in photographs, describes his works as "Rich, as if the white porcelain’s warmth and energy were permeated, and contains a soul like a person would in a portrait."
Sojeong Park, director of the KCC, said, "I am pleased to welcome back Sydneysiders again to the KCC after a long COVID-19 hiatus with this photo exhibition by renowned photographer Koo Bohnchang presented at the newly renovated gallery space in our Centre.”
"The exhibition will certainly serve as a new opportunity to explore the aesthetics and beauty of Korean traditional white porcelain that is distinctive from other Asian countries, through the medium of modern photography,” she said.
During the exhibition period, various online content including an interview with Koo Bohnchang and an online exhibition guide with art critic John McDonald will be available via the .
