Gallery IHN is pleased to hold a solo exhibition of Hong Sung-Do titled 'Out of earth'. The artist, Hong Sung Do is well known for overlapping photographs of the same setting, taken with a time difference and combining them with sculptural elements. In this exhibition his inspiration from his visit to Cuba can be observed through photo sculptures and object installation.

From the beginning of his career, Hong, Sung Do utilized a vise; nippers and he is well known for dismantling objects and then he collates it together. Henceforth, he employs nude and combines photo with partial elements of a body designating a section of the society's desire of 'plastic surgery'. In recent works, the 'tourist' series narrates the loss of the subject and the absence of existence.

Hong, Sung Do has challenged various art forms considering aesthetic consciousness and dismantling the conventional forms. While the artist had travelled in certain places, he discovered the bizarre landscapes and the people who live with various methods of life, while he utilizes the artistic scenes by approaching it with a new possibility of aesthetic expression. The sculptor, Hong, Sung Do continuously explores the 'tourist' series that breaks the boundaries between photography and sculpture, which he enabled it into a three dimensional form. In his recent works, he travelled to Cuba and reveals the Cuban landscape dramatically by exposing the past scenes of international isolation and simultaneously reflecting the recent scenes.

The title 'Out of earth' seems adventurous and makes us feel uncanny about the undeveloped space while stimulating fear. Through the ambivalent landscape of Cuba and the expressions they make on their venture into the world, we experience the excitements the artist must have felt during the journey. Especially the Styrofoam sculptures and floating helium balloons are the results of representation of hope, anxiety and ambivalent place.

Courtesy of Gallery IHN