PORTFOLIO YONGMIN.LEE Applicant for MFA Scene Design 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Me, Myself
SEE THE U
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• Transfrom Daily Path • SUB imaginative WAY • Jamais vu, In the Mist • More interesting Atelier • A Cube • HAMLET
D O I N T E R A C T
• Keep Pace with • See the Shadow • Find Myself
TELL
• Distorted perspective
P A R A D O X
• Painful Satisfaction
• Midsummer Night’s Dream • A Warm Coldness • Trap, Heaviside Layer • The Moon Still Arises
• School Theatre works
OTHER W
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• Professional Film works - Grand Prix, 2010 - Make-Up, 2009
• School Film Works • Life Drawing • Architecture & Furniture
1. SEE THE UNSEEN We are used to seeing what we want to see, and those which are familiar to us. However, what we must be fearful are those which are subconsciously and consciously familiar, not those which are novel. This is because familar one are likely to dull our senses. In this regard, I utilized the methods of conceptual approach, thinking differently, and making the unusual in several of my personal art works, and applying them into the theatrical scenes.
• Me, Myself • Transfrom Daily Path • SUB imaginative WAY • Jamais vu, In the Mist • More interesting Atelier • A Cube • HAMLET
Me, Myself
Yong Min Lee, Personal work Drawing 2011
Two sides of Human Nature: Lethargy and madness. I often feel myself with an unconsciously separated ego.
Me, Myself I Charcoal, Conte, 54.5 x 78.8 cm
Me, Myself II Charcoal , Pastel Colored paper 79 x 110cm
Transform daily path
Yong Min Lee, Personal work Drawing 2011
Distorted My Room
Charcoal, Pastel on a Colored paper, 79x110cm
My Daily Path
Everyday, we walk down the conventional path. However, added imagination unfolds fantastic spaces. I used the method of seeing differently and making unfamiliar.
SUB imaginative WAY
DĂŠcalcomanie, Acrylic on a paper, 54.5 x 78.8 cm
Yong Min Lee, Personal work Painting 2011
After watching the film The Dark Knight 2008, I imagined a situation of a miserable subway explosion, witnessing the tired and stressed people on the subway, pondering how these people would react I painted imagined scene, using a DĂŠcalcomanie method.
Research, Tokyo Compression, Michael Wolf, 2010
Jamais vu, In the Mist
Jamais vu, Magazine Colloge, 21x21cm
Yong Min Lee, Personal work Magazine College 2011
I often experience’ Jamais vu’ during heavy early morning mists or in very familiar spaces like the classroom. Although strange at first, these experiences add clarity to the routine of daily life. In portrayal of this sensation, I created Collages using familiar magazine covers, and then added unfamiliarity to the design by partially covering chopped, negative pieces to the design.
In the Mist, Magazine Colloge, 21x29cm
More Interesting Atelier Yong Min Lee, Personal work Painting, Model 2011
A failure, Acrylic color on a canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm
A Model of Flat Atelier Recycling Box, Wire, 52 x 42 x 21 cm
More Interesting Atelier, Recycling Box, Wire, 49 x 38 x 25 cm
Sometimes, a failure is better than a elaborate or accurate seeming.
A CUBE
Yong Min Lee, Personal work Art Installation 2011
This is a cube, a cube, a cube, a cube, a cube, a cube, and a cube. Acrylic color, wood, Projection on a board, 240 x 75cm I was inspired by the artist and the art works of Joseph Kosuth. He believes that most arts are tautology, based on a linguistic attribute. However, I focus more on the visual perception of the individuality of the object, and I believe that the images can tell many things more than words. To this end, I made real 6 cubes and 1 projection image.
Before projection on a board
HAMLET by William Shakespeare Yong Min Lee, Personal work Scenic project 2011
Scenery has to evolve - the design kept incomplete changeable, until almost the very end.
- Boris Aronson
The great stage setting should be a image, not an picture.
- Robert Admond
ACT 1
SCENE V. Elsinore. A platform before the castle. By the end of Act 1, Hamlet is struggling between his impulse to avenge his father’s death and his reluctance ‘to set it right’. To maximize his inner conflict, the stage setting was made to be highly contrasting.
ACT 1. 1/25 Scaled Model, isopink, Acrylic Box, Black curtain, 75 x 45cm, base height 40cm
ACT 2
SCENE II. A room in the castle. Hamlet has thought of a plan to entrap the king and prove his guilt. I make masses and want to show a labylinthine space that is mechanically moving to express a sense of oppression of Hamlet.
ACT 2. 1/25 Scaled Model, isopink, Acrylic Box, Black curtain, 75 x 45cm, base height 40cm
ACT 3
SCENE IV. Elsinore. The Queen’s bedroom. Hamlet’s delusion in the Queen’s bedroom reveals his madness. The moving ghostlike shadows give the story dramatic tension.
ACT 3. 1/25 Scaled Model, isopink, Acrylic Box, Black curtain, 75 x 45cm, base height 40cm
ACT 4
SCENE IV. A plain in Denmark. In the aftermath of her father’s death, Ophelia goes mad with grief and drowns in the river. The dint on the setting moves down and Ophelia disappears, singing a song.
ACT 4. 1/25 Scaled Model, isopink, Acrylic Box, Black curtain, 75 x 45cm, base height 40cm
ACT 5
SCENE I. A churchyard. The tension of the previous act is momentarily broken as the grave-diggers indulge in jokes. Yet underlying humour is the constant awareness of death. Thick fog appears.
ACT 5. 1/25 Scaled Model, isopink, Acrylic Box, Black curtain, 75 x 45cm, base height 40cm
ACT 5
SCENE II. A hall in the castle. Claudius dies, and Hamlet dies immediately after achieving his revenge. At the end of the scene, all of the pieces are disassembled hinting the Kingdom’s collapse.
ACT 5. 1/25 Scaled Model, isopink, Acrylic Box, Black curtain, 75 x 45cm, base height 40cm
2. DO INTERACT The way we link between thinking and doing is experience.
- Olafur Eliasson
Involvement in the unrealistic world or work of art helps to create new life. In other words, we can redefine ourselves and the present by interacting with other people, objects, and shadow.
• Keep pace with • See the Shadow • Find myself
Keep Pace with
Yongmin Lee, Personal Work Art Installation, Performance 2011
Poster colors on a Paper, 47x 29.5 cm
Individuals have their own Direction and Speed. To interact with someone, it is essential to keep pace with them. I wanted to know the process of interation. To this end, I executed the painting, photographs, and performance.
Seoul, Photo by Yongmin
NOTES There are 4 steps to see mime and motion graphics. (1) He or she who is riding a bicycle have to reach required speeds (2) The Digital speedometor send a signal to the laptop (3) Motion graphics and musics play. (4) Then the performer in front of the screen play mime. Finally, the audience and the actor can truly connect with same pace.
Mimed by Mihwa An, Projector, Laptop, Bicycle, Moter, Power Unit, Digital Speedometor
See the Shadow
Yongmin Lee, Personal Work Projection Installation 2011
These manipulated projection images induce the observer to simultaneously interplay with their shadow. There are two Projectors, laptops, reverse images.
Find Myself
Yongmin Lee, Personal Work Projection Installation 2011
I intended to look at various sides of my appearance and find the gap between the layers real and duplicated images. Projector, Video camera, Mirror, Video by myself
3. TELL PARADOX
We judge things and the present through the eyes of the past. It distorts the true being of the self. Moreover, we tend to keep ‘belief perseverance’ due to our strong sense of identity, even if we recognize its error. Therefore, I think the best way to divert our attention to our inspiration is by paradoxical methods.
• Midsummer Night’s Dream • Distorted Perspective • Painful Satisfaction • A Warm Coldness • Trap, Heaviside Layer • The Moon Still Arises
Distorted Perspective
Yongmin Lee, Personal work Art Installation 2011
Acrylic color on a hard board, 50 x 50 x 14 cm Two picture are from the same model. but the black line bends when an observer steps backward. I made three dimensional box, then I intentionally painted it like a flat picture. one can notice something wrong according to their stand points, and one will recognize how habitualized their sight is.
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Yongmin Lee, Personal work Painting 2011 I was inspired by Shakespeare’s Mid-
The Moment of a Solar Eclipse, Acrylic on paper 56 x 76cm
summer Night’s Dream because paradoxical clues extended my imagination. I imagined the moment when a Solar eclipse happens, the day suddenly alters to night and then the reflection of hundreds of stars cover the Earth through the leaves. The moment seems like a fantastic happening by Puck’s magical tricks. Dokkebi, the Korean traditional and shamanistic ghost that is a mixture of good and evil is very similar to Puck’s behavior in practices.
Dokkebi Sketch
Painful Satisfaction
Collaboration work with six artists Art Installation 2011
Metal Frame, Fabric, Wire, Mesh, Paper, 220 x 330 x 320cm
This collaboration work shows human nature of greed, and the process of relieving people from this greed to satisfaction by the kinetic mine worker. I would like to say this as a Painful Satisfacton.
Preliminary Sketch
Production photo
3D Rendering
Warm Coldness
Collaboration work with Younghae Lee Art Installation 2011 Two reverse properties are combined to show paradoxical interpretations. It may not be compatible. Some may find this to represent the inner confliction of someone who suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder. COLD - WARM SHARP - SMOOTH LIGHT - HEAVY STRONG - WEAK OFFENSIVE - DEFENSIVE
Metal Fabric Steel, Card ring, 110 x 120cm
Trap
Yongmin Lee, Personal work Art Installation 2011 In the Musical CATS, I paradoxically interpreted the Heavi-
side layer for old Grizabella in the last scene as a TRAP ,not a gate for the salvation, which leads a person into sweet temptation. Moreover, one’s sacrifice is required for the desires of either an individual or a community. To this end, I made human scale trap.
Metal, Rubber, Plastic, Gold Color Raqqa, R165 x H35cm
Installing the trap on the trash heap where cats frequently appear.
Photo by Yongmin Lee, Lighting effect by Photoshop, 2011
These Photographs could be used to represent a real-life version of Cats.
Model by Yongmin Lee, Photo by Eunho Lee, 2011
The Moon Still Arises, 2009 A Play Written by Nohong Kwak Directed by Jaemin Choi Scenery by Yongmin Lee Busan Cultural Center, Busan
Synopsis In a little rural town, an old man who is a forest keeper lives with two sons. At a glance, the town seems quite peaceful. However, as the rural development project begins in the town, a strong belief of a forest keeper and his silent madness create a conflict which leads to the death of his one son.
Set Production Photo
Village Landscape, Jinkook Oh, 2006
Research
Rough Sketch
PRELIMINARY MODEL I focused on the irony of the Peaceful Chaos found in this story. I initially designed the set to be expansive, but I left room for change according to the progress of each scene.
Act 1-1, thatched-roof house, 25/1 Scale Model, 400x250x100(H)
Act 2-10, the Town Square, 25/1 Scale Model, 750x500x600(H)
Act 2-1
Act 2-4
Act 2-6
Act 2-9
DRAFTING
preliminary Floor plan
Final Floor plan Changeable model according to the each scene
In the construction of this set the design of the set changed due to financial restrictions and technical problems. In this sense, I learned a lot through this work.
In process
4. OTHER WORKS There are several works in not only theatre but also in film. While most of these works are the result of school, some included professional works from 2007 – 2010. In addition, there are some ateliers Life Drawings and ohter sketches. These are briefly arranged.
• School Theatre works • Professional Film works - Grand Prix, 2010 - Make-Up, 2009
• School Film Works • Life Drawing • Architecture & Furniture
School Theatre Works
Produced at Kyungsung university Set design by Yong Min Lee
After Sorrow 2009
Dir: Jang Hoon Kim Do De Rim Theater Busan
Sliding 2009
Dir: Juhyeup Jeon Kyungsung Univ. Concert hall Busan
The passing people 2009 Dir: Se Hwan Kim Gamagol Theater Busan
GRAND FRIX, 2010 Commercial film Directed by Yoon Ho Yang Set Desgin by Yong Min Lee
“Grand Prix� covers the world of horse racing, centered around the romance between a male horse jockey and a female horse jockey. The background of this drama is a farm and a custom house in silent countryside in Korea.
Set Production Photo
Sketch & Color Rendering
Drafting
3D Rendering
Make-Up, 2009
Non-Commercial film Directed by Seung Woong Son Set Desgin by Yongmin Lee
Two friends: Jong Ho, a make up artist, Jong Man, a manager in an entertainment agency, and two women : theater’s director and a actor, struggling to achieve their own dream.
Concept Photo
Sketch
Drafting
3D Rendering
Set Production Photo
School Film Works
Produced at Kyungsung university Set design by Yong Min Lee
The Rule of This Man 2009 Long film Dir: Joo Hyeop Jeon
Dilemma 2008 Short Film Dir: Sang hyeon Moon
Gaze 2008 Short Film Dir: Yoo Ri Kim
Holmes’ law 2008 Short Film Dir: Seong Won Ro
Fantastic Cracker 2007 Long Film Dir: Se Hyeon Park
Dunhill 2007 Short Film Dir: Sun Hyeon Park
Life Drawing
Architecture & Furniture
Yong Min Lee 1017 Jisan-dong Pyeongtaek-si, Kyeonggi-do Korea 459-110 (82)10-7673-4904 Yong8313@naver.com Portfolio Web Presence: http://issuu.com/yongminlee/docs/portfolio
EDUCATION 03/2004 – 02/2010
Kyung Sung University, Busan, South Korea
Degree Awarded (1): Bachelor of Arts
Degree Awarded (2): Bachelor of Design
CERTIFICATE 03/ 2011- 12/2011
Certificate, Artphil Institute, Seoul, Korea
Attending Courses: Drawing, Painting and Plastic
10/2011
Certificate, Arts Council Korea
International Set Design Workshop with Heidi Ettinger
10/2009
Certificate, Human Resources Development Service of Korea
Engineer Colorist
EXPERIENCE
2011 Exhibition
Being Satisfaction, Art Installation, ArtPhil Institute, Korea
Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Scene Design
Personal Project
2010 Set Designer
Grand Prix, Commercial Film, Korea
Set Designer
Make Up, Independent Film, Korea
Set Designer
Hyena, Independent Film, Korea
2010 Assistant Designer House Remodeling, Interior Design, Busan, Korea 2010 Assistant Designer Experimental Theater Design, Interior Design, Busan, Korea 2010 Set Designer
The Moon Still Arise, Play Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
2009 Set Designer
After Sorrow, Play
Do De Rim Theater, Busan, Korea
Set Designer
The passing People, Play
Gamagol Theater, Busan, Korea
Set Designer
Sliding, Musical
Kyungsung Univ. Concert hall, Busan, Korea
2009 Set Designer
The Rule of This Man, Long film Produced at Kyungsung Univ. Korea
2008 Set Designer
Dilemma, Short Film
Produced at Kyungsung Univ. Korea
Set Designer
Gaze, Short Film
Produced at Kyungsung Univ. Korea
Set Designer
Holmes’ law, Short Film
Produced at Kyungsung Univ. Korea
2007 Set Designer
Fantastic Cracker, Short FilmProduced at Kyungsung Univ. Korea
2007 Set Designer
Dunhill, Short Film
Produced at Kyungsung Univ. Korea
2009 – 2010 Representative
Art Factory - Scenic Design Workshop, Busan
2007 - 2009 Team Leader
Scenic Design Study Group, Kyungsung University
2007 - 2008 Student Body President
Department of Film & Theater, Kyungsung University
SPECIAL SKILL Handcraft
Drawing, Painting, Drafting, Carpentry, Welding
Software
Auto CAD, Google SketchUp Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Final cut Pro, Premiere, Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel
MILITARY SERVICE 01/2005 – 03/2007 A Sailor at the Republic of Korea Navy