PKM Gallery will offer an artist lecture by Cody Choi(b.1961) at his studio. There will be a meet and greet session, a lecture on his NFT artworks and theory, and a Q&A session with a short tour of his studio.
Cody Choi, who has consistently been active as a visual artist and cultural theorist since the 1980s, explores the cultural identity and relationship of authority within contemporary society. Choi touches upon topics of cultural maldigestion, third-culture created by the clash of different cultures, the beauty of such hybridism, and simultaneously occurring new social phenomena—all of which Choi experienced as a foreigner in the US. In the late 1990, Cody Choi started to ask questions about the world which merged into the new creation scope which was created by accumulating, expanding, and duplicating databases in the digital space.
In his works, paintings based on a database mean a new painting structure that clings to a computer database and is free from the artist’s own imagination. Elements of digital creation are neither original nor related to an individual’s imagination; they are purely provided by the database. Choi’s early series; ‘Database Painting(1999-2000)’ show those outputs of behavioral practices as ‘Digital Culture Creation,’ and give audiences room to consider the meaning of new modern NFT art and its originality.
Choi gained his stature as a world-renowned artist after participating in a solo exhibition at Deitch Projects (New York, USA) and an inaugural group exhibition at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille (Marseille, France) in the mid-1990s. From 2015 to 2017 he had a retrospective traveling show at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille (Marseille, France), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany) organized by art-historian John C. Welchman. Choi was a representing artist at the Korean Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale.
His publication includes Topography of 20th Century Culture (2006) and Topography of Contemporary Culture (2010), which are critiques of contemporary society and culture.
Booking is required as capacity is limited
Please RSVP directly to yjkim@pkmgallery.com