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① Artwork:
Boy with Flowers
This most recent body of paintings was inspired by the artist’s personal archive of vintage figurines. The painting surface has been rendered to abandon the vestiges of brush strokes, echoing the glaze techniques used on porcelain figurines.
This cropped composition depicts a figurine of a cherubic boy holding flowers who gets magnified on an isolated angle, drawing attention to the figure’s body language and emotions.
Dabin Ahn is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist. In these artworks, Ahn examines his inclination toward the artistic history of these old trinkets while re-contextualizing them with different techniques and materials.
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③ Artist:
Dabin Ahn is a painter, sculptor and installation artist. Blurring the boundary between two and three dimensions, Ahn frequently strives for balance. Ahn’s recent work captures the poetics emanating from classic Korean vessels with vigorous precision. The artist projects the intangible realm onto the material world with these objects, which he sometimes presents in fragments. Casting them in extraordinary light, Ahn gestures towards the imperceptible terrains of memory, emotion, and transition. The works are arresting yet melancholic portraits of ephemerality.
Dabin Ahn was born in 1988 in Seoul, Korea, and currently lives in Chicago, IL. He received a BFA (2017) and an MFA (2020) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ahn’s solo exhibition “Good Things Take Time” is currently on view at Harper’s (NY) and runs through December 7, 2024.
