Taking old masterpieces, ordinary images or old machine parts as figurative elements, Han has been creating works that freely move between the West and East, past and present, art and daily life, and reality and non-reality. Disparate elements clash and integrate with one another in his works,continuously transforming, through which a new world is portrayed which goes beyond the limits of time and space. The fundamental questions underlying Han's oeuvre are "time" and "space," which are specified by reproducing time and exploring the origins of space. To compare, the artist is similar to a philosopher or anthropologist who searches for "the origin of the world." Then how are these questions represented? In assemblage. Assemblage, which dominates Han's body of work, reflects a modernist way of thinking; for it can be viewed as a metaphor for modernity that is constructed by the combination of disparate fragments, unlike a holistic world or mythological world view. Meanwhile, Han Man-Young's assemblage reveals above all the artist's vision and spirit as it inscribes time inside space and also arranges or extends traces of it inside space. Here we should see assemblage as an investigation on a philosophical level beyond a formative methodology.
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