Sangsoo Ahn

Ahn Sang-soo Born in Chungju, Korean 1952 Ahn Sang-soo is an artist who has been showing new senses by building his own formative language based on letters such as “Hangeul.” He is widely known as a typographer and designer who designed the de-squared “typeface Ahn Sang-soo”(1985) based on the principles of invention contained in the Hunminjeongeum Haerye. However, Ahn Sang-soo’s world did not just settle in design. He has established himself as an artist by having large-scale solo exhibitions such as the “Imagining Hangul” (2002) at the Rodin Gallery, the former of the Leeum Museum of Art, and the “Nalgae.PaTI”(2017) at the Seoul Museum of Art. In fact, such a move has not just started recently. Since the 1980s, when he began his career in full-fledged, he has held solo exhibitions, which is rare for designers, making his name known as an artist, and has been close to the artists who are said to have opened Korean Postmodernism, such as Lee Bul and Choi Jeong Hwa, and has consistently released artworks through various exhibitions. His experimentation with letters crosses the boundary between art and design along with various media such as paintings, sculptures, installations, and media.