CHUL HYUN AHN
“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
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.
CHUL HYUN AHN, Double Eclipses, 2018, Edition 2/3 Plywood, fiberglass, changing LED lights, mirrors, 44 diameter x 6 inches (112 dia. x 15 cm)
CHUL HYUN AHN, Diagonal #2, 2017 Edition 1/3 Plywood, changing LED lights, mirrors, 43.5 x 43.5 x 5.5 inches (110.5 x 110.5 x 14 cm)
CHUL HYUN AHN, Dots, 2019 Edition 1/3 Plywood, lights, mirrors, 43.5 43.5 x 5.75 inches (110.5 x 110.5 x 14.6 cm)
CHUL HYUN AHN, Diagonal #2, 2017 Edition 1/3 Plywood, changing LED lights, mirrors, 43.5 x 43.5 x 5.5 inches (110.5 x 110.5 x 14 cm)