Karel Martens
: Still Moving
The Still Moving Exhibition is the first private exhibition in Korea by Karel Martens, a famous graphic designer, and will be held from October 11 to January 20 at the Contemporary Art Center. From the traditional media-based design work of Karel Martens, who has worked as a graphic designer for nearly 60 years and has become a unique icon of the field to the installation of interactive media, the exhibition has been able to cross the boundaries of analog and digital images, text, mathematical thinking and sensibility, applied art and fine art.
The design of Karel Martens uses ordinary materials in everyday life to express what and what it wants to convey. He study and implement novel and original design ideas such as numbers and letters through mathematical algorithms, print on paper media such as old-fashioned envelopes and bills, or pressure print on paper using metal objects such as discarded parts. It is also known for its meticulous work style in which one can see the writer's face, such as printing only one color a day and covering a new pattern on top of the ink dries up.
The most interesting work I saw was the interactive graphic work installed in the introduction.
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It was a performance to greet the audience with interesting interactive graphics along with Colours on the beach, which once again faces the audience through a three-story bridge, the middle point of the exhibition, and is an intensive reminder of the author's overall work as the end of the exhibition.
Throughout this work, Martens asks the following questions: "What if the basic unit of books and newspapers we're looking at becomes a bird or a flower, not a black dot? What are the letters we write, the typewriters our father used to type, other than letters?In honor of the fact that he can express all the colors of the world in a combination of three colors, he created an icon system as a basic unit of images that can express all images of the world, and the abstract image of the audience with his eyes converted to a more specific image by perspective.
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