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Gregory Maass & Nayoungim
drawing showing Gregory Maass (top) and Nayoungim (bottom)
Ink drawing showing Gregory Maass (top) and Nayoungim (bottom)
BornGregory Stephan Maass (or Maaß) and Kim Nayoung
(1967-04-29) April 29, 1967 (age 57) Hagen, Germany (Gregory Maass) and (1966-03-13) March 13, 1966 (age 58) Seoul, South-Korea (Nayoungim)
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Website
http://www.nayoungim-maass.com

Gregory Maass, born 29 April 1967 in Hagen, Germany and Nayoungim (sometimes referred to as Nayoung Kim) born 13 March 1966 in Seoul, South-Korea are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo called Gregory Maass & Nayoungim. Gregory Maass & Nayoungim´s work is inspired by quite diverse sources such as philosophy, psychoanalysis[1], cybernetics[2], management, economy, fringe science, science-fiction literature, decorative art, music, comics, conspiracy theory, sub-culture, and food[3]. Their art often examines issues of adaptation, normality, perversion, and methodology. They are known to run Kim Kim Gallery, which describes itself as "a non-profit organization, a locative artwork, an art dealership based on unconventional marketing, a curatorial approach, an exhibition design firm, and editor, depending on the situation it adapts to; in short, it does not fit the format imposed by the term Gallery." [4][5]They rarely appear in public without the other.

Early lives

Gregory Maass was born in Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, northern Germany, his mother tongue being German. He worked as a paramedic before moving to Paris, France. He studied philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University and art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques Paris (1993-94) and Jan Van Eyck Academie the Netherlands. 
(1998-2000). Nayoungim was born in Seoul in South-Korea. She studied art at the Seoul National University and later at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. The two first met on 12 September 1991 while studying sculpture at the ENSBA. The two claim they came together because they are both egomaniacs and completing each other. They communicate in French and English. They have claimed that they married in 2008. For several years, Gregory Maass & Nayoungim have been residents of Seoul.

Psychotic Mickey Mouse, Seoul Culture Station, 2012

Works

Mister, Relationships do not exist, 2010
Arswipe Rocket, still life photography, Paris, 2008

Toilet Paper Still Lifes

are often life-size photographic representations on canvas of toilet paper rolls arranged on a table top. Depending of the composition the images are called “Arse-wipe rocket”, "torche-cul", or “Ass-ana”.

Relationships Do No Exist

The pair is perhaps best known for their miniature work called relationships do not exist. The series of sculptures is, to date, the largest series of work created by Gregory Maass & Nayoungim. Relationships Do Not Exist is among the more iconic, philosophically astute and visually humorous works that Gregory Maass & Nayoungim have created so far. The title derives from the famous Jacques Lacan quote “Sexual relationships do not exist”. They proceeded to use out of a wide collection of figurines ranging from the 1950s until today. In a intricate process the bodies are dismembered and reassembled, painted an mounted on empty trophy pedestals. Gregory Maass & Nayoungim call this an adaptation method: First we cannibalize them and then they get Frankensteined back together. Their work has addressed a wide variety of subject matter including scatology[6][7], survivalism, and . The two artists rarely appear in their own "work". [8]

A Snowman for Busan

is a public art work installed in Pusan a town where it hardly ever snows. It is a chromed steel sculpture placed on a roof top water tower of a local Kindergarden.[1][9]

Mona Lisa Overdrive

is a public art work, first installed in front of the Seoul Railway Station in 2008. It is made of rubber, toys, foam mattresses, steel frames, and sprayed over with expansion foam, the whole is painted with a collection of surplus paints. The face of the sculpture depicts the past, present and future of the city of Seoul.[10]

Further Reading

Unfucking Real, Works 2009-20012, published in 2013 by Caustic Window [2]ISBN 9788994027272

Face Zine Eloquence Dazed

Interviews

  • Early Worm video interview with Gregory Maass and Nayoungim in the their show "the early worm" [3],[4]
  • Octavianus, A video Interview with Gregory Maass and Yhiso Bahc. [5]
  • Pièce Unique. An Interview by Gregory Maass about the art of Robert Estermann. [6]

Shows

Tears Of Boredom

Gregory Maass´ first solo-show entitled "Tears of Boredom", was held in 1991 in Hagen, Germany. It consisted of a tautological representation of peanuts. Large scale peanut butter paintings representing peanuts, photographies of peanuts, and an installation of peanuts positioned in "tensegrity" were on display.

"I spend most of my first few years at art school working with peanuts and taking images of vegetable constructions. I even passed a morphology test with a massive plaster peanut, I could barely lift it onto the exam table."

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The Early Worm Catches The Bird

duo-show was about different kinds of success in art. [11]The title derives from Genesis P-Orridge´s first recording with Worm. "In the summer of 1968, Worm recorded their first and only album, entitled Early Worm, in Megson's parents attic in Solihull. It was pressed onto vinyl in November at Deroy Sound Services in Manchester, but only one copy was ever produced. A second album, Catching the Bird, was recorded but never pressed."[12]

The Handsome Tofu

"Tofu incorporates the meaning of mildness, nutriousness, purity, shaped shapelessness, tasteful tastelessness, crème de la crème, exclusiveness, peacefulness and so on, which were the inspirationto to build this show."[13] It took place at the Department for Philosophy and Art in Assen, Netherlands. [7]

Survival of the Shitest

was a show realized with the help of mental patient in the 3BisF in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Awards and Scholarships

  • Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques Paris (1993-94)
  • Jan Van Eyck Academie the Netherlands. 
(1998-2000)
  • Atelier Rondo, Kultur Service Gesellschaft Steiermark, Graz, Austria (2008)
  • United Sardine Factory Studio Grant, Bergen, Norway (2007)
  • NKD, Studio Grant, Dale, Norway (2006)
  • Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Studio Grant, Trondheim, Norway (2006)
  • Cite Internationale des Arts, AFAA Studio Grant, Paris, France, (2004)
  • Boswil Artists’ House Foundation Studio Grant, Boswil, Switzerland
  • Korean Film Commission Grant, Seoul, Korea, 2002
  • Samsung Unni Atelier, Samsung Culture & Arts Foundation Studio Grant, Seoul, Korea (2001)
  • Parc St.-Leger Centre d'Art Contemporain Studio Grant, Pougues-les-eaux, France (2000)
  • Joseph Ebstein Price For Sculpture, Paris, France (1997)

Political stances

Influences

Gregory Maass claims to be influenced in his thinking by the premise of Robert Filliou that (Well done, Badly done, Not done) are three equivalent proposals. [14] and the writings of Philip K. Dick.

References

  1. ^ Jacques Lacan´s theory on sexual relationships. http://nosubject.com/index.php?title=Sexual_relationship
  2. ^ See POSWID exhibition http://www.nayoungim-maass.com/worx/poswid_kimusa.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
  3. ^ Vegetable still lifes, 1992-2008 http://www.nayoungim-maass.com/worx/still_lifes_vegetables.html
  4. ^ Clemens Kruemmel "It all indefinite article" http://www.nayoungim-maass.com/texts/it_all_indefinite_article.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ Kim Kim Gallery Homepage http://www.kimkimgallery.com. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Mr. Blackball, Neuer Giessener Kunstverein, Germany 2007 http://www.designersparty.com/entry/Mr-Blackball-gregory-s-maass-nayoungim
  7. ^ Shitlady, 2012 http://www.kimkimgallery.com/images/index_pics/gregory_maass_nayoungim/shitlady.jpg
  8. ^ Extremely neutral, The spiral of events, performative sculpture, Seoul, 2011 http://nayoungim-maass.blogspot.kr/search?q=extremely+neutral+
  9. ^ Images of "Snowman for Pusan" http://www.akive.org/eng/portfolio/E0000921/SANBOKDORO%20PUBLIC%20ART%20PROJECT
  10. ^ Mona Lisa Overdrive, Seoul Station 2008 http://likenoone.egloos.com/2142060
  11. ^ The Early Worm Catches The Bird, Space Hamilton, Seoul, 2010http://www.akive.org/eng/portfolio/E0000921/SANBOKDORO%20PUBLIC%20ART%20PROJECT
  12. ^ Ford, Simon (1999). Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle. Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 978-1-901033-60-1.
  13. ^ Quote of Gregory Maass commenting on the Handsome Tofu. http://www.nayoungim-maass.com/worx/z_old_do_not_upload/the-handsome-tofu.html
  14. ^ http://www.newmedia-art.org/cgi-bin/show-oeu.asp?ID=150000000034720&lg=GBR

Further reading

Publication

  • Kim Kim Gallery´s website [8]
  • Homepage of Gregory Maass & Nayoungim [9]
  • Blog about Gregory Maass and Nayoungim [10]
  • Blog about Kim Kim Gallery [11]
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