Lot 1545: ZU DO YANG

ZU DO YANG
(B. 1976)
Playground-Br- Polar; & Playground-Polar
Playground-Polar: Signed with artist's signature (lower right); inscribed 'V/V' in English (lower left)
each: 125 x 123 cm. (49 1/4 x 48 3/8 in.) (2)
edition 3/5; 5/5
Executed in 2006 (2)

Seoul, Korea, Kumho Museum, Development Figure, 23 November-3 December 2006 (different edition of Playground-Br-Polar exhibited). Paju, Korea, Gallery Hangil, A Sweet Illusion, 26 April-25 May 2007 (different edition of Playground-Br-Polar and Playground-Polar exhibited).
Seoul, Korea, The Columns Gallery, Nature, Garden and Landscape, 15-31 May 2008 (different edition of Playground-Polar exhibited).
Seoul, Korea, The White Gallery, Summer Art Sh, 5-30 July 2008 (different edition of Playground-Polar exhibited).

Kumho Museum, Development figure, exh. cat., Seoul, Korea, 2006 (different edition of Playground-Br-Polar and Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 15 & 18 respectively).
Monthly Photo, Seoul, Korea, January 2007 (different edition of Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 105).
Korea Vol. 468, Seoul, Korea, January 2007 (different edition of Playground-Br-Polar illustrated, p. 105).
'The Frontier of Korean Photography' in Noonbit, Seoul, Korea, February 2008 (different edition of Playground-Br-Polar and Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 206).
ARTRADE, Seoul, Korea, March 2008 (different edition of Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 58).
Edition ART, Seoul, Korea, May 2009 (different edition of Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 41).
CAMERATA, Seoul, Korea, August 2009 (different edition of Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 65).
CANS, Vol.85, Beijing, China, December 2007 (different edition of Playground-Polar illustrated, p. 127).

When humans view the world with bare eyes, the vision presented is in perspective. As we observe the horizon, the curvature of the ground eludes from our perspective and the world appears flat. This fundamental world view is deep-rooted in society, as the ancient Chinese saying goes 'sky is round and ground is square.' Zu Do Yang strives to breakthrough precisely such visual limitation. He skews the way of seeing with hemispherical photography, which allows light to pass through only one hole to create an interesting way to see the world. This challenging way of working method is out of perspective, but its abstract vision provides spectators with an incentive to start questioning our perception.

Seeing Playground-Polar (Lot 1545) from a distance, it could be mistaken as a photo of earth from outer-space. Approaching the work, a night scene emerges with an extroverted and lonesome playground lighting up a cloudless atmosphere with sky-blue; in Playground-Br-Polar (Lot 1545), the supposedly boundless sky is caged in the introverted ruby red ground and locked by some Corinthian columns. From Zu Do Yang's work and through his lenses, one may perceive a different world concept.