KABR x WATERFALL: HONG SUNGCHUL, LUCA ARTIOLI
AND SHANE PENNINGTON
April 2022 through October 2023
KABR Group Headquarters, New Jersey
Sponsored by The Waterfall Arts Foundation
For KABR, Waterfall employed selected artworks by three contemporary international artists to activate and build a creative solution to the latest site development. The exhibition includes artworks by Hong Sungchul, Luca Artioli, and Shane Pennington.
The two-person exhibition of artist Hong Sungchul, and Luca Artioli on the ground level is organized by Waterfall Arts Foundation. Selected artworks by multimedia artist Shane Pennington are displayed on the 2nd level, including the 13-foot-tall painting accompanied by a digital projection of dandelion seeds floating within the air, “Carmen’s Wish.”
The KABR Group (“KABR”), is a vertically integrated private equity real estate firm responsible for the investment, development, and management of real estate, at its Headquarters location in Englewood, NJ.
HONG SUNGCHUL
Hong Sungchul, currently based in Korea, uses lines as the main element in his works while also reflecting the regularity of parallel. He turns photographs into three-dimensional works of art by printing the photographs onto a series of elastic bands that he then aligns at varying depths. By doing so, he displays both the physical and mental flexibility the viewer can have while observing his works.
Hong initiates a dialogue both with and between viewers, instilling the sense of community so prised in Korean culture. Hong’s current body of work revives his string concept – a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life – the umbilical cord. These strings, upon which an image is printed, are staggered in his works and interlace to reveal a final representation – one of support or loneliness.
Luca artioli
Luca Artioli is an Italian artist, poet, and photographer widely recognized in Europe and around the world. For years, he has worked in the most vital artistic circles of world culture, such as La Scala Opera House in Milan, The Wolfsonian Museum in Miami during Art Basel, and Hermès in Paris. Artioli has evolved over the years as an artist who is appreciated for both his skill with the camera as well as the pen.
Luca Artiolis’ Nature Series explores the hope and joy that returns through capturing the beauty of nature in New York City during the first few days post-Spring Equinox. The photos have been taken throughout the course of 7 years from 2012 to 2019. For Artioli, movement is what encompasses the spirit of NYC. Using the ICM photo technique, he captures the city's infinite growth and life. Luca uses the camera the way a painter uses a paintbrush.
SHANE PENNINGTON
Shane Pennington is a Dallas-based artist and a founder of AURORA, the largest outdoor new media arts festival in the United States of America.
Pennington’s works engage the balance and fragility of essential dichotomies. Between the ephemeral and the enduring, nature and the human construct, Pennington’s subjects are often skewed both metaphorically and physically, prompting their viewers to contemplate life and its meaning from an alternative perspective. His use of many media and textures, especially copper wire, allows for a diverse artistic language. The resultant works conjure an energy that reflects upon life, death, and universal consciousness.