Hyungkoo Lee

Hyungkoo Lee,2006
Anas Animatus; Anas Animatus L; Anas Animatus H; Anas Animatus D
2006
Resin, aluminum sticks, stainless steel wires, springs and oil paint
45 x 79 x 53 cm; 49.5 x 31 x 33 cm; 52 x 28 x 34.5 cm; 52 x 30.5 x 33 cm

Hyungkoo Lee
HK LAB-WR
Performance

1969 Born in Pohang, Korea / Lives and works in Seoul /
2002 M.F.A. Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA /
1998 B.F.A. Hong-Ik University, College of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea

"Homo Animatus was an extension of a series of earlier pieces where the artist physically sought to alter – to reduce to cartoon simplicity – his own anatomy. Using plastic forms, enlarging and reducing lenses, Lee created a variety of body costumes that altered both one’s appearance and one’s vision of the real world at the same time. Homo Animatus is, for Lee, the ‘Origin of the Species;’ in a peculiar and devolutionary way, of course, and in keeping with how animated creatures serve as stand-ins for their human counterparts. Canis Latrans Animatus (Wile E. Coyote) and Geococcyx Animatus (Roadrunner) followed and are now joined by Lepus Animatus (Bugs Bunny), Felis Catus Animatus (Tom), Mus Animatus (Jerry), Anas Animatus (Donald Duck) and his three nephews, Animatus H, D and L (Huey, Dewey and Louie).

There’s a whole new bit of forensic activity at work and the viewer is drawn into an exploration of the process behind this reductio ad absurdum." (Howard Rutkowski)

P.P. saw Lee Hyungkoos art at the Biennale in Venice 2007, where he represented Korea. The Queen thinks that his work is impressive, clever, masterly and witty.

http://www.hyungkoolee.net/

Strictly forbidden

photos by karl kodym

Sometimes the Queen gets a little confused, strange signes with vague meanings have been seen. P.P. received the photos from an attentive citizen who is also puzzled.

No heterosexual relationship allowed?

No man and woman torso allowed?

No embracement while wearing swim suits?

No shooting a photo with one eye closed?

No taking a photo with an old camera allowed?

No photographers with black hair allowed?

Puzzels, puzzels, puzzels...

How scandalous!

Last week a poor town in the rural P.P.Queen Land had its first art scandal. The artist Caren Dinges made an installation in public space, the artwork had the mayors blessing, everything seemed to be fine. The topic of the work was death and to show "death" in public space, on a place where people are usually not confronted with their own finiteness. Some of the cute inhabitants of the tiny town couldn´t cope with the fact that everything has its end sometime, so they went to the mayor and wanted him to stop this scandalous happening. The real scandal is that he did what a few narrow minded asked him to. But now after 250 people gave their vote for freedom of art in G., everything is almost o.k. again and the installation will be there for a week instead of two months. Very interesting story in the 21st century and somehow really sweet.

If you want to know more about it, this is a link to an article in german

http://www.tips.at/zeitung.php?page_id=286&active=247

Feeding the artist

photographies by petra kodym

This is just a small part of the culinary delights you get when you are an artist in P.P.Queens Land. The people from your studio neighbourhood like to serve you cake, coffee and fresh fruit when they see that you are working in your studio. "I don´t look extremely thin" says the artist that sent the photos to P.P.Queen "nevertheless my neighbours always want to feed me." So artists from all over the world come to P.P.Land and gain some weight!

Christian Schwarzwald

Christian Schwarzwald, Spiel, 2008, at Galerie Krinzinger Vienna

drawing:installation, mixed media on paper and aluminium, wall-drawing

The artist (born 1971 in Salzburg) is living in Berlin, art degree at Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and Athens.

His works are drawn installations. Mixed media on paper and aluminium and murals transform the room into a hole new world, making the viewer feel like an explorer.

I saw this one ("Spiel") a few months ago, it really was an impressive experience.

http://www.christianschwarzwald.net/

Artgarbage

photography by petra kodym 2008

P.P.Queen´s hint for every artist: If you produce trash please throw it into your garbage can from time to time. Don´t think everything you do is good just because YOU do it. You will see, it makes you feel free and easy if you get rid of this burden.

Artificial vs Natural

photography by petra kodym 2008

Chemistry, physics, technology and science make it possible to transfer raw material, natural things into so called artificial things. All this disciplines have their origin in nature, so everything that is produced by them are natural as well. That is the way P.P.Queen is thinking about it, at the same time she is quiet aware and also happy that there are many more ways to look at this problem.