23. 09. 05 - 10. 28 ㅣLeeahn Gallery
CONTENTS
From September 5 to October 28, 2023, Lian Gallery Seoul will present "The Wind Blows: About the Sculpture". Since his first solo exhibition at Myeongdong Gallery in 1973, Lee Kang So, who will celebrate his 50th anniversary in 2023, has been focusing on sculptures made by "throwing" traditional sculptural methodologies with modern thinking, raising meaningful issues for contemporary society.
Lee's sculptures are formed from accidental clumps of dirt that are piled up haphazardly or thrown into the air. The act of creating a work of art by "throwing" dirt, which is considered to be the material that creates people or the material that returns to them when they die, has deep implications. The soil that leaves the artist's hand and is thrown away is a distinct entity. It has to determine its own existence by organically combining with chance factors such as direction, speed, and gravity during the throwing process, and sunlight and wind during the drying process.
By doing so, the artist restores the vitality of soil in the Eastern tradition, which has been neglected by the dichotomous Western notion of the division between human subjects and non-human objects. At the same time, he elevates soil to the status of a human being who is the only subject with the right to self-determination. "Heidegger says that human beings are 'thrown' and 'project'," says critic Shim Eun-rok, interpreting Lee's throwing works as capturing the process of a being thrown into the world and trying to struggle. Thus, we can recall that the soil, which is thrown into the world and struggles to overcome the given environment and determine its own existence, was also a being no different from human beings.
Lee's "wind" helps connect all things in the universe, without distinction between earth and humans, non-humans and humans. The wind connects the stamen and pistil of a flower that cannot move at all, making it bear fruit. In the end, the artist wants the viewer to feel this wind in the exhibition and recognize that natural materials such as soil are not static objects, but living beings with "aura" and connected by "organic energy" that interacts with everything in the universe, including humans.
DATE
2023. 09. 05 - 2023. 10. 28
TIME
10 a.m. to 18 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and Mondays
LOCATION
9, Jahamun-ro 12-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
Leeahn Gallery
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23. 09. 05 - 10. 28 ㅣLeeahn Gallery
CONTENTS
From September 5 to October 28, 2023, Lian Gallery Seoul will present "The Wind Blows: About the Sculpture". Since his first solo exhibition at Myeongdong Gallery in 1973, Lee Kang So, who will celebrate his 50th anniversary in 2023, has been focusing on sculptures made by "throwing" traditional sculptural methodologies with modern thinking, raising meaningful issues for contemporary society.
Lee's sculptures are formed from accidental clumps of dirt that are piled up haphazardly or thrown into the air. The act of creating a work of art by "throwing" dirt, which is considered to be the material that creates people or the material that returns to them when they die, has deep implications. The soil that leaves the artist's hand and is thrown away is a distinct entity. It has to determine its own existence by organically combining with chance factors such as direction, speed, and gravity during the throwing process, and sunlight and wind during the drying process.
By doing so, the artist restores the vitality of soil in the Eastern tradition, which has been neglected by the dichotomous Western notion of the division between human subjects and non-human objects. At the same time, he elevates soil to the status of a human being who is the only subject with the right to self-determination. "Heidegger says that human beings are 'thrown' and 'project'," says critic Shim Eun-rok, interpreting Lee's throwing works as capturing the process of a being thrown into the world and trying to struggle. Thus, we can recall that the soil, which is thrown into the world and struggles to overcome the given environment and determine its own existence, was also a being no different from human beings.
Lee's "wind" helps connect all things in the universe, without distinction between earth and humans, non-humans and humans. The wind connects the stamen and pistil of a flower that cannot move at all, making it bear fruit. In the end, the artist wants the viewer to feel this wind in the exhibition and recognize that natural materials such as soil are not static objects, but living beings with "aura" and connected by "organic energy" that interacts with everything in the universe, including humans.
DATE
2023. 09. 05 - 2023. 10. 28
TIME
10 a.m. to 18 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and Mondays
LOCATION
9, Jahamun-ro 12-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
Leeahn Gallery
More information is available through the links below.
Go to the homepage
Article | Leeahn Gallery Photo | Leeahn Gallery
© yoohee.seochon
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to yoohee.seochon with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.