Title of art	De-veloping-Silhouette Casting/De-veloping-Silhouette Casting			Sector	Sculpture (조각)
Art specifications	200?200?400cm			Material technique	Water jet cutting on iron plate, Urethane painting
Collection year	2012			Production year	1984-2010
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	HONG Myung-Seop
Description of art	The concept of “De-veloping,” which first appeared in his first solo show “Facing the Wall” in 1978 and has continued to this day, runs through every aspect of Hong’s art. Inspired by the word “develop,” a etymological antonym of “envelop,” meaning cover and surround, the sculptor has used the words “en-veloping” and “De-veloping” as each other’s counter term, which reveals his art view of pursuing the beauty of nothingness, or a “？less” state. Containing such meaning, the “De-veloping” series was produced mainly during the early 1980s with various subtitles. The work “De-veloping; Silhouette Casting” (1984-2010), a piece from the series of the same title, was created by cutting an iron plate in the shape of a pair of scissors. Bordering on an image of representation and illusion, the installation can be seen as the shape of an independent form (existence) of scissors and at the same time as a vestige (non-existence) left from the act of cutting the plate. Either way, the work liberates the object from a fixed perception and simultaneously embodies the beauty of deconstruction intrinsic in the concept of “De-veloping.”
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