Zu, Do Yang: "Das Glasperlenspiel"
2009. 09. 16 - 10. 15

Trained as a fine major and studied painting, Zu’s photographs represent the most up-to-date trend of fine art photographs. There are some fantasies, some post production process of cutting and pasted involved, yet the development of his career can be more tangential with the development of art history than with the history of photography. He originally chose the spaces of theme park, Buddhist temple, and department store where, the artist believe, human desire, hope, and despair are interacting with each other. He then recompose his original photographs within a 360 degree round shape circle as if the viewers are forced to look into the small world of desire. In 2006, Zu was selected as one of the new talents in Kumho Art Museum, an award considered to be the most prestigious and promising in Korea.

Zu Do Yang’s works are similar with Mosaic or David Hockney’s approach in that both dismantle reality and reconstruct but there are big difference in presentation. He intends to reconstruct dismantled reality inside of one space with multi-points perspective. Thus, this is not about reality or fake. He creates one virtual space which doesn’t exist and integrates his visual experience into the circle and presents it just like a writer who expresses his artistic truth based on his own experience through novel which is made up. Therefore his camera is eyes of dragonfly, fly and grasshopper with lots of compound eyes.