Artists : Jun, Ga Young Yoon, Jeong Won Lee, Jang Sub Choi, Soo Whan Jeong, Kuk Taek Kim, Bum Su Pil, Seung Oh, Su Fan Ron Arad Fischerspooner Tilman Peschel

It's August. Hot summer weather makes us feel listless and languid. The new exhibition at Gana Art Gallery, invites you to mid-winter days to bring you the festive mood of Christmas season. The exhibition aims to show you new forms of Christmas trees and icons which we've never thought of or seen before. We present you the unique works and Christmas-related items of 8 artists.

The 8 participant artists try to embody the basic concept of exhibition by mixing it with their own styles in each of their works. To begin with, Artist Ga Young Jun installed a four-storied pagoda-like tree piling up LED panels one above another to which she had attached pieces of Korean paper dyed in sky, green, pink, etc. The tree also looks like a chair or a box from some angles.
Artist Jeong Won Yoon made a 'swollen' tree by stacking up 35 round acrylic panels. The panels are decorated with flower-shaped transparent acrylic lighting fixtures and thousands of playmobils. We can find fun looking closely at Yoon's dazzling tree finding the details of playmobils. Yoon also added the feeling of completeness to the composition of its exhibition space by installing things like a star-shaped lighting and huge acrylic slippers.

Artist Jang Sub Lee created a unique tree which is made up of pipes. The pipes which came from 3 different starting points are bended and connected with each other. The three dimensional structure of tree is the result of this repeated process. With LEDs installed inside the pipe, we could have the illusion that lights are flowing through the pipes. Moreover, Lee's pipe tree is an interactive installation. The speed of lights changes whenever the audiences touch the valve gear attached to it.
Next to Jang Sub Lee's tree, there are the very iconic figures of Christmas: Santa Claus and Rudolf, the reindeer. They are the works of Yung Wun Yoo. Yoo's Santa and Rudolf show the features of human beings. Their eyes are just like ours, and especially Santa's face is similar to the artist's. Yoo went to great pains to cut up the sheets of paper containing Christmas-related texts, and pasting them together.

Soon Whan Choi created a tree of glasses by installing about a thousand of glasses on a metal frame which has two contrasting colors: red (top) & green (bottom). Lots of LEDs stuck on the back side of each glass are turned on and off just like they are dancing to the Christmas Carols. With them, the atmosphere felt from the work is light and playful. Around his Christmas tree, the artist set up his most important serial works of where he illustrated the Christmas wreath and added the strength to the whole composition of space.
Artist Kuk Taek Chung installed his most famous image of 'an urbanite' with a conical tree of 3 meters high. In this work, his urbanite is flying around the tree wearing the red hat of Santa Claus. And while it flies, the color of heart-shaped lighting located on the surface of tree keeps changing. The three red reindeer around the tree seem as if they were moving around it. The nose of "Rudolf, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose" , as the song goes, also keeps changing its colors with variety, which adds the dynamic and cheerful mood to the whole work.

The two artists, Bum Su Kim and Seung Pil, did lighting installations which go well with the atmosphere of . Bum Su Kim's is made up of the heart-shaped LED panels which he created by cutting up films of various movies made in all ages and countries. The 66 panels are turned on and off at some regular intervals and tell us the stories of each love.

Artist Seung Pil made a chandelier and lighting using disused toy mini-cars. Planning the installation of his work, he took its installation space of hallway and how it would look when it is seen from inside and outside of the space into account. Here is our suggestion. Come to see Seung Pil's work in one dark evening. Look at it from the outside, and the sound and melancholic mood it brings us would be doubled. Offers you an opportunity to enjoy the mood of the Christmas season in this hot Summer with 8 different works of 8 different artists.

Ga Young Jun
After personally dyeing each Korean paper and pasting them on the LED panel, artist Ga Young Jun builds the panels in a form of a tree. The tree can appear to be a box or a tower, depending where one looks at it.

Jeong Won Yoon
Jeong Won Yoon assembles many layers of circular acrylic panels in a shape of a Lego tree. Each acrylic panels are decorated with flower shaped lights and various forms of Lego dolls.

Jang Sub Lee
The pipes that begin in three different starting points are bent and connected to create a 3D tree structure. The LED installed inside the pipes can be quickly lit, and the speed of LED can be adjusted by the valve located on the front of the installation.

Yung Wun Yoo
Santa Claus and Rudolf reappear every year as Christmas symbols. Yung Wun Yoo's works make a caricature of Santa Claus and Rudolf, and Santa Claus's face resemble the artist's face.

Seung Pil
This installation is based from pink and green toy mini-cars, and the chandelier's lighting and colors carefully consider the exhibition hall's space. When the lights are on, the chandelier gives a calming, yet melancholic feeling, especially when one looks at it from outside.

Soo Whan Choi
By installing the LED under the transparent glass, the glass tree's radiance is at its greatest, and as the LED turns on and off spontaneously, it creates a more active glow. Expressing the four seasons with the LED panels, this installation suggest a wreath hung in front of the door on Christmas day.

Bum Su Kim
Bum Su Kim embodies the shape with 66 LED panels each pasted with different movie film strips, and each panels are dynamically turned on and off randomly. One can really enjoy this work by carefully looking at the film strips.

Kuk Taek Chung
Kuk Taek Chung's conic tree is interactive, as the colors of the patterns on the surface constantly change and according to the number of visitors, Santa Claus's speed changes as well. The Rudolf chair in red adds to the Christmas ambience.