South Korean designer Wonmin Park is exhibiting his series HAZE at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris this September, including two new pieces developed at the gallery's research space in Roissy.HAZE is an exploration of resin furniture in minimalist, subdued colors. The pieces are constructed from slabs of translucent white, navy and grey resin, characteristic of Wonmin Park’s work. The semi-transparence of the material gives Park’s furniture a soft-edged appearance and a dream-like quality, as if the pieces are not quite present in the space. Park states he chose resin for its texture, which creates “the sensation of painting enveloped by air.”Park mixes the pigments by hand, before pouring the resin into the molds. The thinness and translucency of the slabs allows different-colored pieces to show through, creating an other-earthly feel that contrasts with the fundamental practicality of a piece of furniture. It is an ambiguous tension between function and sensation, characteristic of Park’s aesthetic.Despite his youth - he graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven only in 2011 - Park has already exhibited at major design fairs globally, including at Design Days Dubai and Design Miami. He has a design studio in Eindhoven, and a production facility in Rotterdam. Recently, he has become the third artist to set up a studio at Carpenters Workshop, CWG's research and production space in Roissy, outside Paris.Simultaneously with the exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, three pieces from the HAZE series will also be exhibited elsewhere in Paris, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs as part of Korea Now group exhibition, an overview of Korean design and crafts for the French audience.HAZE will run from September 10 – October 14, 2015, at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. Korea Now! Craft, Design, Fashion and Graphic Design in Korea will be showing from September 19-January 3, 2016 at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
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