Space 776 is excited to announce our participation in this year's Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair, showcasing artwork by Rimm Chae, Enzo Lee, Marco Bras, and Kwangyoung Chun.

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Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C) is South Florida’s premier and most prestigious winter art fair that takes place during the height of the season and is the only “can’t miss” event for all serious collectors, curators, museum directors, and interior designers, providing an intimate look at the most important works available for acquisition at the forefront of the international contemporary, modern, classically modern, post-war and pop eras. PBM+C is the most important fair each winter as it brings a world-class, internationally respected group of 95 galleries and their artists to the discerning and ever-growing high net-worth audience that has migrated South.

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Marco Bras (b. 1973, Moçambique, Africa) Moved to Portugal where he studied photography, drawing, and experimental filmmaking until he fell in love with stone carving. He attended the International Sculpture Center in Portugal. Studied with masters of carving stone like Moises, Antonio Quina, Rogerio Timoteo, and Romeu Costa.  Marco Bras showed his work extensively in Europe and the United States. Participated in various art fairs, and received prizes and honors for the excellence of his carving technique such as a first-place award D. Fernando II. Marco Bras established his studio in New Jersey, where he creates large-scale stone-carved sculptures.

Marco Bras’s hand-carved sculptures are an allegory to human beings and their spirit. Bras polishes the imperfection of the material, the rustic stone, to illuminate the beauty of a spiritual body. Through his creations, he transmits spiritual signs and symbols, dialogues of nature and the universe. Carving the stone is a mystic performance that combines ancient techniques and modern technology. 

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Enzo Lee (b.1988, South Korea) is a journal artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Enzo first started his journey as an artist by carrying a journal during his teenage years. Uncertain of the future, he started to write down his feelings, thoughts, and experiences to study himself, hoping to gain control over his life. Over time, the habit naturally evolved into something more and became not only a form of recording but also a form of expression. His own voice, the art. Enzo published his first book of essays and poems, “Bird in Space”, in 2014. Realizing that the voice shouldn’t be limited by any specific medium, he went on to study filmmaking to learn multi-dimensional aspects of art. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts, and works on a permanent video journal series called “Piece of Life”. Currently, there are about 120 episodes online. Since 2020 COVID, Enzo also started to explore the medium of painting and is now expressing journals through large paintings. Enzo is pursuing to develop his philosophy and artistry of using a journal as a tool to live life itself as a form of art, the "Piece of Enzo". Enzo Lee is an artist who considers his life, itself, the artist’s medium. Lee’s artistic practice is the nurturing study of the artist’s identity and purpose in life. As such, Lee's compositions act as a journal, conveying pieces of his life and experience. He most often creates with acrylics, charcoal, and pens on canvas or cardboard. “It is a represented ideal, a statement, an emotion, a thought, a practice, a style, a love, and a state of mind of a present soul. But above all, It is simply life as an art.” - Lee says. 

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Chae Rimm (b. 1963, Korea) received the Leonardo Da Vinci Award in Florence, Italy. Her works of art were also accepted and exhibited at the Start Art Fair held at London’s Saatchi Gallery in 2017. She became the first Korean to win the SOLO Award at Artexpo New York. The International André Malraux Association also awarded her at the International Cultural Heritage Fair held in Paris. She has successfully held numerous solo exhibitions in Seoul, New York, and Paris. Her artwork has also been well-received at leading art fairs in Miami, Barcelona, Singapore, Cologne, Taipei, London, Brussels, and Toulouse. With a career spanning over thirty years, Chae Rimm draws inspiration from both scenery and memory. She experiments with Eastern philosophies regarding humanity and natural cycles and explores the harmony of the two. Her new body of work, "Laquered Landscapes," from the series Mountains and Island, features a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, and jewelry. In this body of work, fraught with intense color and simplified lines, Chae Rimm interprets natural processes of transformation expressed by mountains and islands over time. By incorporating the five colors of Korea—yellow, blue, red, white, and black—these works make reference to yin and yang harmony.

 

Chun Kwang Young (b. 1944, Korea) studied at Hong-Ik University in Korea and received his MFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. Prior to 1995, when the artist began working with mulberry paper, he painted in a manner influenced by American and European Abstract Expressionism. Chun has been named Artist of the Year by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and was awarded the Presidential Prize in the 41st Korean Culture and Art Prize by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. In 2014, Chun authored Mulberry Mindscapes, a monograph articulating the breadth and diversity of his half-century-long artistic career. The artist’s works are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, and the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, among others. He lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Chun Kwang Young's tactile, crystalline paper sculptures represent human conflict and confrontations of the past, present, and future. Both "a product of human knowledge and experience" and "a compromise with reality," the series draws on the artist's training in abstract painting as well as a specific memory that influenced his paper-working career: the medicine bundles carried by Korean apothecaries during his childhood. Chun Kwang Young sees analogies to chemistry and the human condition in the meshing and clashing of these paper parcels. Fragments of passages taken from classics of Korean and Chinese philosophy are printed on mulberry paper and dyed with tea and other natural dyes. This gives the impression that these sculptures are naturally occurring; organically beautiful yet contaminated by humanity. Chun Kwang Young is "expressing the power of our ancestors' spirit and reflecting on a painful modern society."