Oncetype by Kelly Moonkyung Choi | Exhibition

einBuch.haus Exhibition Space

Florastraße 61 Berlin Berlin 13187 Germany

Event Date: End 2020-12-04 13:00 ~ 2020-12-19 19:00

Project Key : #Craft&Sculpture, #design, #typography, #printing

https://einbuch.haus/en/#oncetype
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Oncetype by Kelly Moonkyung Choi | Exhibition

einBuch.haus Exhibition Space

Florastraße 61 Berlin Berlin 13187 Germany

Event Date: End 2020-12-04 13:00 ~ 2020-12-19 19:00

Project Key : #Craft&Sculpture, #design, #typography, #printing

https://einbuch.haus/en/#oncetype
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Graphic designer Kelly Moonkyung Choi's typography project "Oncetype" is an art project that gives new functions to wooden printing type that has lost its original position today.

Kelly Moonkyung Choi mixes natural ingredients such as polygonum indigo, paprika, and gardenia into a soap solution to create multicolored and vibrant patterns, using improvised hand movements. Soap type, produced like casting letters one by one, evokes images of its colorful use back in the day, unlike the dull and monotonous appearance of the unused type today. Like life, soap type will disappear someday.

The artist captures the splendidness of "Oncetype" in photographs, then brings these images into the computer, applying new colors to them. Every color of the original material is replaced by a Risograph ink, and the type is recreated as prints. The prints created in this way, named "Oncesoap", may last a little longer than the "Oncetype" soap.

Artist Statement

Kelly Moonkyung Choi is a graphic designer with an interest in the visual images obtained from the manual process. In 2015, she participated in “Typojanchi” as a curator of “Book Bricks”. She had a solo exhibition, “Gutenberg Bubble”(Factory2, 2018) and several group exhibitions such as “Art+Work”(Art Center White Block, 2018) and “Typojanchi”(Culture Station Seoul 284, 2019) She currently works and teaches at Paju Typography Institute.

Oncetype
by Kelly Moonkyung Choi

Oncetype, Kelly Moonkyung Choi, 2018
Oncetype, Kelly Moonkyung Choi, 2018

Accepted 2020-12-01 10:47

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Contacts/Email : Graphic designer Kelly Moonkyung Choi's typography project "Oncetype" is an art project that gives new functions to wooden printing type that has lost its original position today.