Artist

CHOI Jeong Hwa

Exhibition (Installation Art)

photo: KUTSUNA Koichiro, Arecibo
photo: KUTSUNA Koichiro, Arecibo
photo: KUTSUNA Koichiro, Arecibo

Breathing Flower
Happy Happy

He is going to set up a huge open-air sculpture, using recycle plastic cube produced in Saitama. Prior to the festival, his older work ‘Breathing Flower’ will also be exhibited at different parts in the city.

Happy Happy: Special Cooperation: Saitama Arts Foundation

SaitaMandala

CHOI Jeong Hwa is known for making statues with broken champagne bottles, or huge-scale objects with everyday items in our daily life. SaitaMandala features plastic bottles, which has now become a symbol of the consumption society. All plastic bottles used in this work arrived at SAKURA Environmental Center. We citizens are all automatically participating in this work in a way by using and discarding plastic bottles. SaitaMandala will exist during the exhibition period in order to exhibit and expand the meanings behind citizens taking part of production of an artwork, or the meanings of the material itself and the production processes of the artwork—but then the work will be disarticulated and recycled again once the exhibition period finishes, renewing itself into another new material.

SaitaMandala: Artist Support: Atelier RING Yasuyuki Aoyama, Registered first-class architect office STUDIO SO Kazuo Takahashi

Profile

CHOI Jeong Hwa

CHOI was born in 1961 in South Korea and resides there today. He is one of the country’s leading contemporary artists, working also in the fields of art direction and interior design. Choi takes inspiration from objects and situations in everyday life. Using motifs closely related to Korean culture or ubiquitous in Korean society, he creates dynamic and unusual works often highlighting the humorous, little-noticed aspects of things. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the United States.

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