In honor of Earth Day this Sunday, April 22nd 2012, we’d like to shine the creative light on Choi Jeong-Hwa’s public installation from 2009 “Doors”. Since we often gravitate toward materials otherwise destined for the rubbish bin in our own installations, we are wildly attracted to this work too.
Images via www.choijeonghwa.com
While the concept is pretty simple: a building façade of 1,000 found doors; there is an interesting story behind how he got there. In art school, the Korean artist entered a painting contest, painted what he thought the judges would gravitate to and won the Grand Prize of a trip to Europe. On his return, he burned those paintings, “decided against becoming an artist and decided instead to be an ordinary person who thinks like an artist.” He found beauty in garbage piles and construction sites, leading to a host of installations comprised of found stuff.
I love Choi Jeong Hwa’s creative premise: Art is in the mind more so than skilled hands.
D.
Love it! This reminds me of the doors from Monsters Inc.!
Posted by: Diana | April 19, 2012 at 01:54 PM
monster's inc.
Posted by: Lexi | April 25, 2012 at 01:45 AM