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Die koreanische Künstlerin Youngho Lee und der japanische Künstler Mikio Saito, die schon seit einiger Zeit als Künstlerduo zusammenarbeiten, zeigen in ihrer ersten Einzelausstellung in unserem Projektraum SATELLIT Wandzeichnungen, Zeichnungen, Fotografie und Videoanimationen.
Beide Künstler studieren noch an der Frankfurter Städelschule, Youngho Lee bei Simon Starling Mikio Saito bei Mark Lecky.  

Die Ausstellung "Pencil of Nature" zitiert den Titel des ersten Fotobuchs von Henry Fox Talbot. Wörtlich genommen, nutzte er die Strahlen der Sonne, um seine "Fotografie" zu zeichnen. Saito und Lee verkehren diesen Ansatz Talbots gleichsam ins Negativ:

"If we imagine that our drawings are photography, they were taken in the dark and were drawn as a reality from our mind. They are personal remapped geography, transformed memory and architecture. And they are growing larger to be in ordinary life. If we believe strongly in something, there will emerge a fantasy figure in the dark (…)." [Saito & Lee]

Das alte Spiel des Zeichentricks, dass Dinge sich ständig in andere verwandeln, Kaputtes wieder heil, Tote wieder lebendig werden können, wird bei Saito zu einem selbstrefentiellen Spiel weitergetrieben, das sich ständig wiederholt. [Ludwig Seyfarth]
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(press release)
The Korean artist Youngho Lee and the Japanese artist Mikio Saito who since already some while cooperate as artist duo, present in their first solo show in our project space SATELLIT wall drawings, drawings, photography as well as video animation. Both artists are studying at the Frankfurt Städeschule, Youngho Lee with Simon Starling and Mikio Saito with Mark Lecky.

The exhibition “Pencil of Nature” cites the title of the first photo book by Henry Fox Talbot. Literally he used the rays of the sun to draw his “photography”. Lee and Saito turn this approach in its negative:

"If we imagine that our drawings are photography, they were taken in the dark and were drawn as a reality from our mind. They are personal remapped geography, transformed memory and architecture. And they are growing larger to be in ordinary life. If we believe strongly in something, there will emerge a fantasy figure in the dark (…)." [Saito & Lee]

The old game of animated film to transform one thing in another, to heal the broken, or to revive the Dead, is driven to a self-referential game constantly