Past Residents
Past Resident2015: LIG Art Space
Gun-Soo Lee
Ken Shu Lee is an art critic, a curator, a publisher, a lecturer, a writer and a filmmaker. With his interest in the identity and historicity of art since modernization, he produced exhibitions demonstrating the communication and interactions between old and new generations of art. How will we capture the signs of post-colonialism and overcome the standardized globalization? He is seeking a model of globalism that is a true combination of globalism and localism. How can art survive amidst the environment of commercialized art? Lee questions how the social role of art and autonomy of artists can be separated. He considers the destruction of barriers between the East and the West, tradition and modernity and center and periphery with the theme of art as communication.
Ken Shu Lee (born in Seoul, 1965) has curated exhibitions in South Korea, including Maestro, 2002; Oriental Painting Paradiso, 2003; Moon Garden, 2008; and Landscape Dot Human, 2012. He also organized Biennale Archive at the Busan Biennale 2014, a special exhibition recalling the 50-year history of Korean participation. As a journalist and the chief editor of Monthly Art, Lee is most noted for his career as an art journalist for 17 years.
Gun-Soo Lee, SanSooDotIn, 2012, Exhibition catalog image. Courtesy of the curator.
Past Resident2015: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Naveen Mahantesh
Naveen Mahantesh’s practice lies at the intersection of art, architecture and the city. He is involved in creative research with a love for urban life and an interest in providing alternative perspectives on the everyday in the city. Past projects have included working with teams of artists and curators engaging with ideas of placing art in the public realm while considering the city as a studio. His projects provide alternate perspectives for the banal routines, take inspiration from urban myths, and engage within the ecologies that the city thrives upon.
Naveen Mahantesh (born in 1985) is the principal architect of CRESARC based in Bangalore. His projects and propositions have been a part of Sarai-Reader-Exhibition’09 (2013) and Insert (2014), curated by Raqs media collective; Mediating Modernities (2013) at Srushti School of Design; design for change at TEDx-R.V.Vidyaniketan (2013), Bangalore; and FOA-FLUX-art|life|technology Symposium at Swissnex (2015). He received a grant from KHOJ (2013) for his collaborative project Ecologies of the excess, and as part of 080:30, he received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts Project560-Found space (2014) project that intimately situated art within the fabric of Bangalore City. He has been a City as Studio fellow(2013) at Sarai-CSDS., and a Visiting Faculty and critic for architectural design at design institutes in Bangalore including R.V School of Architecture and SIT, Tumkur.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Rikke Benborg and Naveen Mahantesh
July 21, 2015
Naveen Mahantesh, Placement 1.0 - 080:30, 2013, Intervention. Courtesy of the curator.
Past Resident2015: Foundation for a Civil Society
Genti Korini
Genti Korini studies and reconstructs the modernist agenda of image and medium in his paintings and photographs. His works are architectural and painterly while retaining their abstract essence. The architecture of the Albania’s capital Tirana is primary inspiration behind Korini’s work. New formations emerge as a symptomatology for rapidly evolving ideologies. In the age of neoliberal freedom the ideological idiom has been hijacked and has found new forms of expressions in the domain of architecture. Korini’s examination of this trend reverberates throughout his work.
Genti Korini (born in 1979, Tirana, Albania) lives and works in Tirana, Albania. He studied painting at University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania and graduated with an M.A, in Graphic Design and Painting at the University of Arts, Tirana. His selected exhibitions include Fragile Sense of Hope, Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany, 2014; The Object and It’s Background, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara, Romania, 2013; Ephemeral Structures, National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania, 2007; There Is No Place Like Home, Galeria Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy, 2007.
Genti Korini, Forma 3, 2015, Oil on canvas, 47 × 35 in. (119.38 × 88.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
