[Ko Hun signed a management contract with Sunflower!]
[Curator Bang Taeho established an artist management company]
[What’s Ko Hun’s next move?]
In March, Artist Ko Hun, who caused a stir with [Frost Wheatfield] winning $14 million, signed a managerial contract with fledgling management company Sunflower.
Sunflower is an Artist management company founded by Bang Taeho (39 years old), one of the best curators in Korea.
Ko Hun reportedly invested directly in Sunflower.
Experts see why Ko Hun did not sign a contract with proven domestic management such as Legion Academy or famous overseas management as an advantage to lead the profit allocation.
In the future, Ko Hun will receive support for exhibition schedule management and promotion, tax issues, copyright protection, and domestic and foreign activities through Sunflower.
There are voices of concern about the management business challenge for Bang Taeho, former chief curator of the WH Art Museum.
Some of the art community and some of Ko Hun’s fans are pointing out that they have no management experience, questioning whether Bang Taeho’s planning ability will work overseas.
On April 5, however, Sunflower officially announced that it has signed a public relations model contract worth 600,000 euros (about 800 million won) with German paint maker Schmincke.
It also announced that Ko Hun has been invited to the Whitney Biennale, an international art festival that will be held from the 21st, signaling a cruise.
Attention is focused on how Ko Hun, who is building a global reputation, will meet a new partner and act.
Lee Inho (The Korean Express)
The fact that Ko Hun, who made a fuss in Korea last month, received full support from a strong paint company and news that he will participate in the Whitney Biennale, an art festival attended by people around the world, was widely reported.
Artists, art lovers, and netizens who were watching Ko Hun closely responded in various ways.
Do Painters have a manager?
Usually, they do everything by themselves, but when it comes to Ko Hun, he needs someone to help him.
It’s absolutely necessary for Ko Hun. You can belong to a gallery, but if there are dozens or hundreds of people together, it becomes difficult to schedule an exhibition at will.
It’s better to walk around with the management. It’s interesting that he didn’t go to Legion Academy.
Did he have to invest directly? Why can’t he just leave it to Bang Taeho?
According to the article written by Lee In-ho, it seems that it is because of the profit distribution ratio.
Bang Taeho is doing well in outside activities. Since Ko Hun is so popular, I’m sure he will get a lot of advertisements and invitations.
For a one-year contract of 600,000 euros, that’s a great deal.
He almost missed the Whitney Biennale this year.
Ko Hun has created an Instagram account.
He’s posting up his workspace.
His friend is also cute.
I went in to look if there were pictures of paintings, but there were only pictures of food.
It’s so cute that he looks happy with his plump cheeks.
I think he’s a made-up artist. It doesn’t make sense that a painting of a 10-year-old or 11-year-old is worth 16.3 billion won.
Every painter is made. They can’t do anything without someone who likes them.
Art is normally like that, but this is a bit too much. Honestly, I don’t even know if Ko Hun’s drawing is good. I know that people who like Ko Hun’s paintings will deny it.
Freedom of thought is different from denying others’ thoughts.
No, I’m not denying it. I don’t like his drawings. Can’t I say anything? Don’t you have to accept criticism when you do something like that? I’m saying this because you hurt my feelings.
Why do you react so sensitively when others react to what you said? Isn’t it because your thoughts are being denied?
When I looked up an Internet article, my image seems to have hardened to some extent.
There are so many modern expressions calling me young Van Gogh, perhaps because of [Sunflowers], [guests], and [frost wheat fields].
For this reason, some criticize me as a child who imitates Van Gogh, others cheer me on, and others thank me saying it’s a “life work.”
Either way, I feel happy as if I feel the “Vincent” inside me, but I feel a long way to go.
Thanks to modern culture, Koreanization, and various knowledge and emotions that I felt while traveling around Europe, I thought I had changed and developed a lot, but there is still a long way to go.
I want to show a different side of me at this Whitney Biennale.
The use of oil pastels is based on that will.
The oil pastel was also a new thing I learned.
I colored it and rubbed it like I was painting an oil painting.
I can express it in a lump with my fingers, and when I use a brush, I get a different texture from oil paint.
What I like the most is that I don’t have to wait until it dries.
If I apply a colored pencil after applying a suitable background color, the paint will peel off and color it well.
Mixing colors is no match for paint, but if I use melted oil pastels like paint, it is also unique.
It is less viscous than oil paint, so the detailed expression is smooth.
I tried melting it with a dryer, but it was most convenient to microwave it.
While getting used to the oil pastel, I envisioned a work to be submitted to the Whitney Biennale.
This weekend, I was thinking about using a feature that is scratched more easily than oil paints.
I watched Newtube to cool down for a while.
As I searched for what to eat for tomorrow’s snack, the video of baking pancakes stood out.
I wondered what it was because it was a video with more than 1 million views, and it was a video of drawing with pancake batter.
“What is this?”
While I was impressed with the video, Sihyeon’s voice was heard.
“Hello!”
“Haha. Welcome, Sihyeon. Hun is in the studio.”
I heard Grandpa and Sihyeon’s voices from the living room.
When I turned my head, Sihyeon came in with a cheerful face as bright as his voice.
“Hi, Hun!”
He cleared up the misunderstanding with his father, and when Park Hyunwoo apologized, he became energetic, unlike his first impression.
“Hi.”
“Look at this!”
Sihyeon took two boxes out of his bag.
When I approached to see what it was, they were oil pastels.