Cha Joo Man graduated from Hong IK University majoring in sculpture and studied further at the same school with M.F.A. Looking back to the previous Cha’s exhibition held in Vanguard Gallery, also his debut in China, we found in his workings that Cha Joo Man had profound thinking on the international politics and international relationship. As a Korean, Cha especially focus on the relationship between Korea and North Korea. In this exhibition displays the latest works of the artist and the viewer will find a new focus which the artist put on the society.

The latest works of the artist are sculpture architectures in various shapes. All these architectures are made of smoked wood. The artist combined those wood stick with the least knots. Thus, stood in front of us are these deja vu architectures: the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the East Original Pearl Tower in Shanghai and a super star. These prominent architectures are the products of city civilization and they stand for the image of a city. However, Cha Joo Man observes them from another perceptive. In his opinion, those architectures are constructed based on the destruction of the natural environment. From this point, production and destruction can be seen as a union. And the super star is Cha’s irony on the delusive consumption in the society. Constituted of the smoked wood, the fake star is not shining but we have to admit it has the shape of the star, besides, its size is much bigger than the real star in the sky. It deserves the name of “super star”.

Take a close look on these works, you will find all these workings are transformed through an artistic distortion on the artist’ purpose. Cha Joo Man doubts such civilization and consumption phenomenon so he further expresses his questions on the fast-developing city civilization and daily-rotten consumption environment. The authentic experience and profound ponder on life and society makes his works time-honored, meanwhile, a whole new angle is provided for the viewer to inspect the society.

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Vanguard画廊于10月28日开始，将为您隆重推出车柱满装置作品展Super Star。此次展览将展示艺术家的装置作品以及相关的大型数码照片。

车柱满毕业于韩国弘益大学雕塑专业，后以同校研究生毕业。回顾上次Vanguard画廊为车柱满举办的“脱靶”，即车先生在中国大陆的第一次个展，从他的作品里，我们看到了艺术家对国际政治以及国际关系的关注和深刻思考，作为一个韩国人，车柱满对于朝韩关系的关注尤其鲜明。此次展出的将是车柱满的最新作品，观者将看到艺术家对社会问题的最新观点。

车注满的新作品是各种形状的雕塑建筑，这些建筑都是由熏过的木头来制作的，艺术家用最少的连结将木条拼凑起来，一个个似曾相识的建筑就这样矗立在我们眼前，巴黎的埃菲尔铁塔，上海的东方明珠还有一颗超级巨星。这些著名的建筑都是城市文明的产物，它们代表的是一个城市的形象，而车柱满则是从另外一种角度来看这些象征着城市文明的产物。在他眼中，这些城市建筑的出现是建立在对自然环境的破坏上，从这一点说，生产和破坏是统一的。而那颗“超级巨星”则讽刺了现代社会里的迷惑性消费。这颗星星同样由熏木构成，虽然不耀眼，但人们不得不承认它是星星的形状，而它的尺寸比起我们眼睛能看到的天空中的星星也足够可以称为“超级巨星”。

细看这些作品，会发现所有的作品都是经过艺术家的艺术性扭曲来实现情形的转化，艺术家对如此的文明和消费现象提出了质疑，从而讽刺了快速发展的城市文明和日益糜烂的消费环境。车柱满对生活，对社会的真切体验和深刻反思使他的作品具有时代性，同时也为观者提供了一个审视社会的新角度。

展览从10月28日开始，直至11月22日结束。