Selected Artworks

FRANK JIMIN HOPP

FRANK JIMIN HOPP presents his artwork like an unexpected and yet resonating mirror. The viewer is confronted with oddly familiar consumer goods and images from pop culture that are transformed and distorted. They are vessels of forces that slowly threaten to destroy our world. The thematic distortion is underlined by the artist's unique interrogation of the material of ceramics - soft clay is shaped into organic and yet forceful forms. It is defenseless underneath the hand of the artist, echoing the feeling of inevitability and powerlessness in the face of historical consequences such as changing climates and exploitative consumption. Nevertheless, like a coral reef, there is the uncertainty if maybe, instead of reducing, the clay is growing and building, expanding into space. The ceramics enter a reciprocal dialogue with the artist's paintings. Like the clay, Hopp interrogates the medium of painting and develops his own methods and styles. In his current series, his paintings cite the animation of the early 2000s in which two-dimensional panels were combined to create digital shapes. Thereby, the paintings emulate not only early video games but also another crucial progression in creating images; it resembles the aesthetics of Cubism and Futurism.

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