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CHUL HYUN AHN

Korean artist Chul Hyun Ahn investigates infinite space through his use of light, color, and illusion. His interest in the gap between the conscious and subconscious compels him to construct illusionistic environments, providing a spaces for contemplation. Ahn’s sculpture urges the viewer to consider man’s boundless ability for physical and spiritual travel while exploiting notions of infinity and the poetics of emptiness.

Ahn has translated geometric painting and the Zen practice of meditation into an art of light, space, and technology, enticing the viewer to look deeply into his frame of environments. His works create an optical and bodily illusion of infinity through apparent limitless space. The notion of the void distinguishes his work amid the vast panoply of ways that artists have used light as a medium since the experiments of the 1920s and particularly since the 1960s.
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Meet Chul Hyun Ahn

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Words from the  artist

“There are no clear answers to what lies beyond the physical limitations of our world. This is the crux of the work—the audience must bring themselves to the threshold and confront the infinite space to complete the work.”

— Chul Hyun Ahn 

 

 

Biography

Chul Hyun Ahn was born in Busan, South Korea. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Chugye University for the Arts in Seoul, South Korea. In 1997 he moved to the United States and in 2002 received a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Ahn creates sculptures utilizing light, color, and illusion as physical representations of his investigation of infinite space. He achieves this through the use of electrical light sources including Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), fluorescent, and black lights set between mirrors and one-way mirrors combined with housings made of plywood, cast concrete, or cast acrylic materials. The image of the work is created through the placement of lights between the two reflective surfaces, which creates the illusion of an infinitely reflecting light sculpture.

Ahn’s mirrored light sculptures arose out of his background as a painter. His interest in hard-edge, geometric abstraction and creating infinite depth within the surface of his canvases led him to place one of his paintings in a box of mirrors. When he discovered the magical properties of one-way mirrors, Ahn knew he had found a method of creating infinite depth. By the time of his 2002 MFA Thesis exhibition at the MICA, he had abandoned traditional painting altogether in order to create his now signature sculptural light constructions.