2023.06.01-2023.07.28
Happy Farm
 
2023.09.16-2023.10.30
illusive illusion
 
2023.03.11-2023.04.23
A Glance Back~The Theater of Youth"
 
2022.12.03-2023.01.15
A Glance Back~Have You"Kusama Yayoi-ed" today?"
 
2022.09.24-2022.10.30
Dreamland
Jang_Tarng-Kuh_Solo

 
2021.11.06-2021.11.30
Five Faces of The Artist
Kim Tae-ho

 
2021.09.07-2021.10.10
Five Faces of The Artist
Kim Tschang-yeul

 
2021.04.01-2021.05.16
One Day in the Future
 
2020.12.19-2021.02.07
Tao Wen-Yueh - Soul to Soul
 
2020.09.26-2020.11.22
Lee Lee Nan - He's been here....
 
2020.05.16-2020.07.26
Deconstruct the Past from the Future.
 
2020.03.15 ~ 2020.04.26
Face of The Spring No.20
 
2020.01.04 ~ 2020.02.16
Owing to My Paranoia
 
2019.10.19 ~ 2019.12.08
Salon of an Art Collector
 
2019.08.27 ~ 2019.09.29

Visual Tricks


 
2019.05.18 ~ 2019.06.30

Wu Hao Retrospective Exhibition - Never Say Goodbye


 
2019.05.30 ~ 2019.06.02

2109 Art Busan


 
2019.03.09 ~ 2019.04.27

Flowery Spring


 
2019.03.26 ~ 2019.03.31

2019 HK Art Central -
The Mystery of Time


 
2018.12.08 ~ 2019.02.24

Kim Tae Ho -
Aesthetics of Lining


 
2018.09.15 ~ 2018.10.21
Cynthia Ma -
Dancing Divas of Taiwan

 
2018.04.14 ~ 2018.05.31
Dream Blossom
 
2018.03.26 ~ 2018.04.01

Yayoi Kusama V.S. Choe U-Ram 2018 HK Art Central

 
 
2017.10.26 ~ 2017.12.10

Ala Aureus

 
 
2017.07.28 ~ 2017.09.24

Nothing But Happy

 
 
2017.06.03 ~ 2017.09.03

Choe U-ram - [stil laif] in NTMOFA
Official website

 
 
2017.05.01 ~ 2017.07.09

What You Will

 
 
2016.12.17 ~ 2017.3.12

Kim Tschang Yeul -
God's Tear Drop

 
 
2016.11.11 ~ 11.15

2016 Art Taipei -
MERRY-GO-ROUND

 
 
2016.09.03 ~ 10.23

Future in the Past

 
 
2016.05.21 ~ 07.19

Three Travelers Three Epics

 
 
2016.03.12 ~ 04.30

Look Up Rose from the Sky

 
 
2015.12.19 ~ 2016.01.24

New Light Catch your Eye

 
 
2015.10.24 ~ 11.29

Nishizawa Chiharu ‧ Wonderland

 
 
2015.09.12 ~ 10.11

Post-objectivity

 
 
2015.07.11 ~ 08.10

Absolute Intuition

 
 
2015.05.02 ~ 06.28

Change ‧ I Change

 
 
2015.01.17 ~ 03.29

Ye Yongqing ‧ Grand Sight to the Tropic of Cancer

 
 
2014.11.15 ~ 12.20

Wang Pan Youn ‧
The Sun Never Sets

 
 
2014.09.20 ~ 10.31

Montage!

 
 
2014.06.21 ~ 07.30

Is it paper?

 
 
2014.04.19 ~ 05.18
Jang Tarng Kuh ‧ Roadside Theater  
 
2013.11.08 ~ 11.11
2013 Art Taipei - Glorious Encounter  
 
2013.06.08 ~ 07.07
Magic Hour  
 
2013.04.20 ~ 05.26
The Invisible Medium  
 
2013.03.02 ~ 03.31
Start from Zero Part2 ‧
Small with infinitely large
 
 
2012.12.01 ~ 2013.01.06
Dialogs ‧
Korean Contemporary Arts
 
 
2012.09.15 ~ 10.28
Yayoi Kusama ‧ Infinity Dots  
 
2012.06.09 ~ 07.15
Confused, not Confused  
 
2012.04.21 ~ 05.20
Shinatro Miyake ‧
A COMMONPLACE TALE
 
 
2011.09.17 ~ 10.23
A Fable of Japanese Contemporary ‧ Ten Sols  
 
2011.03.05 ~ 04.05
Ye Yongqing ‧
Beyond the Bird
 
 
2010.10.09 ~ 11.20
International Contemporary Art - Absolute Glory  
 
2010.09.11 ~ 10.03
Wu Hao ‧ Blooming  
 
2010.06.19 ~ 06.30
Zhang Qikai ‧
Mr. Panda's Wonderland
 
 
2010.05.08 ~ 05.30
Nishizawa Chiharu ‧
Where are you from?
 
 
2010.03.20 ~ 04.18
Eddie Kang's Life Play  
 
2010.01.16 ~ 02.07
Kwon Ki-soo's New Xanadu ‧
Are you waiting for me?
 
 
2009.11.07 ~ 11.29
Yoshitaka Amano ‧
Flying to DEVALOKA
 
 
2009.09.12 ~ 10.04
Yang Na&Mu Lei ‧
The Fable of Fairy Tale
 
 
2009.03.14 ~ 04.08
Jang TarngKuh's Solo ‧
The Day I Saw Past and Future Sceneries Playing
 
 
2008.12.13 ~ 2009.01.04
Being or not Being ‧ Lee Lee Nam's Image Mythology  
 
2008.09.13 ~ 10.05
Ah Leon ‧ The Memory of the Elementary School  
 
2008.07.13 ~ 08.05
Kwon Ki Soo ‧
Who's Dongguri?
 
 
2008.05.17 ~ 06.08
Eddie Kang ‧ i am a bear  
 
2008.03.29 ~ 04.22
Tuly Hero  
 
2008.01.05 ~ 01.27
Super - Animamix  
 
2007.10.20 ~ 11.08
3L4D of Ultra-new Vision of 21st Century Animamix  
 
 
 

 

 

 



 

 

 

“Urban Myth” Episode I
– Choe U-Ram’s Alchemy of Anima Machine

Down they fly. From the Ancient past, like an enigma, floating, 200 meters above the tower. The mysterious, bizarre creature, the Urbanus, descends from the sky, amazing and shining. It unfolds itself, layers and layers, with its extravagance and glamour, before you, speaking so tenderly of distant tales of the cities.

“It breathes. It flutters. It glows. It whispers.”


 



Its beauty unparalleled, the realistic yet unreal Anima Machine is the future creature that has been since the ancient past, made by Korean artist Choe U-Ram. It’s the fascinating artwork of kinetic machinery. Their body of stainless steel, yet filled with human warmth, like a life, breathe and sway and communicate with your soul.

They are not AI. Choe’s U.R.A.M. lab discovers their heartbeats; from Latin they found scientific reports that prove the existence of those soul machines and their identifications. They also question the truth of biological memory as well as the recognition of time and space.



As for those urban drifters, the Urbanus, they first lived in Tokyo. Urbanus Female, with their body in the shape of a flower, absorb universal energies; when they unfold themselves like the flower blossom, it’s when they release their energy and light. Urbanus Male drift around the females, awaiting their release of energy and light, to which they would unfold their blades so they can absorb them. In summer, adult female drifters would give birth to countless miniature machines that would float and dance among the skyscrapers like dandelion seeds. Adult males would embed genes into those minute machines with mighty pulse waves. The minute machines receive the waves and grow into larvae; among them, only one in a thousand would mature into female. Male larvae grow cuddling against mature female drifters, and they begin to connect when they turn 8 inches long, attaching to one another into a line. When ten of them are connected, those male larvae grow into male drifters.

 


Such is the story of Choe U-Ram’s works. It begins with mythic fables and explores in the cycle of the universe with a fantastic imagination of regression, from the future all the way back to the creation of all, connecting the real world and the supernatural. It may be sophisticated, profound and unintelligible, but it also invites the audience to construct and interpret what they see before their eyes.

     
 
   
 
 


By the 35th anniversary of Metaphysical Art Gallery, we are privileged to have the family of Choe’s urban drifters. They come with their immortal cakra and sacred wings, flying over the exotic space of the Gallery. Even Taiwan’s own Papillo maraho butterflies glides their welcome.

This is a dreamlike, captivating once-in-a-lifetime encounter. Choe U-Ram’s alchemy of Anima Machine. You most certainly shouldn’t miss.



   
 


 

   
 

 

 

   
 

 

 

   
 


 

   
 

 

 

   
 

 

 

   
 


 

 

 

   
 

 

 


 

   
   
   
 
 

 

   
   
   
   
   
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