Ruby Unkyung Hur’s solo exhibition "Botanimal Garden" features more than 100 botanimal drawings, tracing the evolution of botany and its research. The ongoing show at Arario Gallery also includes a large installation project.Hur creates a unique world where she adds a different energy to her art. The exhibition features works that may seem like plants, but have all been drawn in the shape of heteromorphic creatures. This Botanimal series tests the border between standards and heteromorphism, the classification of animals and plants, and the limitations of beauty and unfamiliar imagination.The works push the viewers to pay attention to how organisms that look so insignificant and useless are adapting to surroundings in a desperate manner. Hur's creations also question the genetic diversity of the species formed as a result of natural selection according to the theory of evolution."The artist delivers cosmic vitality by guiding the audience to an alien place, not the place where living creatures actually live. In this way, we can feel a sense of humankind that exists in such a huge mechanism, and furthermore the time and fate that governs human beings. At this exhibition that displays Hur’s Botanimal series — which multiplies and divides heteromorphic unfamiliarity in familiar surroundings in a completed way — we hope that viewers can find aspects of aesthetic exploration in which the artist expressed creations and beings with her unique thoughts and philosophy," writes the gallery.Born in 1964, in Seoul, Korea, Ruby Unkyung Hur graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. Hur received BFA and MFA at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (California, USA). The artist began her career with the first exhibition "After Myth" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Since then, Ruby Unkyung Hur has held several solo exhibitions in Korea. She has also participated at numerous group exhibitions in Korea, Germany, and China.The exhibition will be on view through June 24, 2018 at Arario Gallery, # 84 Bukchon-ro 5-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea.For details visit: http://www.arariogallery.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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