Hosang Park, one of our Hot Shots from 2008 has just had his work profiled in Landscape Architecture: The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
In the article Nicola Twilley remarks that Park's images provide an interesting social commentary of Korean landscape. She writes, "Its cornucopia of amenities--climbing frames, fountains, seesaws and swing sets, pagodas, grass, ornamental rocks, meandering paths, trees and flower beds, benches, ponds, basketball courts...even public art--are crammed together as a visual shorthand for endless leisure. They are landscape as sinage, a placeholder for the possibilities of a park". An idea that Park himself would agree with as he describes the work as, "[revealing] fabricated Korean-style space and the stark realities of democracy in a more comic way", suggesting the parks are more of an unsuccessful social experiment rather than a place of casual interaction with your neighbors.
The original article was printed from the authors blog, bldgblog.blogspot.com and you can find it here.
Also, lucky for you, Hosang Park's prints are still available on 20x200.com. Buy them now here and here while also reading more about Hosang
I WOULD LIKE TO BW A MEMBER IN THA MAGAZIN
Posted by: Magdi Soliman | December 20, 2009 at 06:00 PM