Kwang Young Chun

The first monograph on Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, renowned fornbsp;exquisite handmade mulberry paper sculptures and textured surfaces thatnbsp;represent harmony and conflict in the unity of many. Coveringnbsp;the entirety of Kwang Young Chun's career from his early abstract paintings tonbsp;his famed Aggregation series--complexnbsp;structures and canvases created from the antique, handmade mulberry papernbsp;pages of literary and academic texts and tinted with teas, fruits...
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The first monograph on Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, renowned fornbsp;exquisite handmade mulberry paper sculptures and textured surfaces thatnbsp;represent harmony and conflict in the unity of many. Coveringnbsp;the entirety of Kwang Young Chun's career from his early abstract paintings tonbsp;his famed Aggregation series--complexnbsp;structures and canvases created from the antique, handmade mulberry papernbsp;pages of literary and academic texts and tinted with teas, fruits andnbsp;flowers--this book documents a highly influential contemporary artist whosenbsp;work, writes the New York Times,nbsp;"...makes you sense something fundamental about great art that is too oftennbsp;forgotten or overlooked in today's age of instant everything...."

The use of traditional materials and organicnbsp;dyes, and his meticulous process, imbues Chun's compositions with a timelessnbsp;quality that has been recognised around the world. In 2001 Chun receivednbsp;the artist of the year award from the National Museum of Contemporary Art,nbsp;Korea. His works are included in esteemed public collections such as the Unitednbsp;Nations and Rockefeller Foundation in New York, the National Gallery ofnbsp;Australia at Canberra, and were recently exhibited in a three-man show withnbsp;Anselm Kiefer and Gotthard Graubner at the Kunstwerk museum innbsp;Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany (2012).

The book includes such special features as a gatefold, tinted pages, and a jacket printed on hanji, traditional handmade Korean mulberry paper.