Exhibition Title
To Non-Sculpture
Exhibition Venue
1F, 2F at Seongsan Art Hall
Exhibition Description
This is an indoor themed exhibition that visualizes the main overall theme of the Biennale, “Non-Sculpture-Light or Flexible.” It showcases various installation art, deconstructive sculptures, media sculptures, and sculptures that require audience participation.
1. Consists of a rigid monument, voluminous sculptures, and sculptures designed to leave heavy mass behind (“light” part (form) of the non-sculpture theme)
2. Exhibition venue features a string of macroscopic narratives involving “nature-environment-space-human-technology” of the human civilization, and more microscopic narratives of the “birth-old age-sickness-death” of humankind
3. Features sculptures made with materials that attract natural materials such as water, fire, soil, wind, air, foam, and light, and flexible materials such as paper, fiber, vinyl, cotton, glycerin, bamboo, and plaster to reflect on the non-sculpture concept. Or sculptures made with heavy and ponderous materials that explore various concepts linked to flexibility
4. Features sculptures illustrating fragmentation, rupture, dismantling, and reconstruction
Spatial Arrangement
Inside Seongsan Art Hall
Unlike Main Exhibition 1, Main Exhibition 2 guides visitors along a carefully planned sequence to tell a certain narrative prepared by the Biennale in advance.
Seongsan Art Hall features an expansive hall near the center of its first floor. At 16m high, the hall spans from the first floor and all the way to the third floor. This central hall is called “Jungjeong” (central courtyard), given how it serves as a courtyard with other exhibition halls surrounding it. Function-wise, it serves as a prologue through which visitors can begin their journey through Main Exhibition 2, and an epilogue where visitors can round out their experience inside Seongsan Art Hall. In other words, Jungjeong serves as the beginning and end of the story Seongsan Art Hall hopes to tell as part of the Biennale.
Once visitors enter Seongsan Art Hall, they will find themselves in a sizeable courtyard-like space that functions as a prologue and epilogue to Main Exhibition 2 at the Biennale. From there, visitors can follow along a predetermined route across the exhibition halls from step-1 to step-7. Here, visitors pass through exhibitions based on a macro-narrative of human civilization, which covers nature, the environment, the universe, humanity, and technology, and exhibitions based on a micro-narrative of the life and death of human beings. Main Exhibition 2 features a “rigid monument, voluminous sculptures, and sculptures designed to leave heavy mass behind (“light” part of the non-sculpture theme) as well as non-material sculptures inspired by integrated content (“flexible” part of the non-sculpture theme).”
Of course, Main Exhibition 2 also includes “sculptures made with materials that attract natural materials such as water, fire, soil, wind, air, foam, and light, and flexible materials such as paper, fiber, vinyl, cotton, glycerin, bamboo, and plaster to reflect on the non-sculpture concept, or sculptures made with heavy and ponderous materials that explore various concepts linked to flexibility.” In some ways, Main Exhibition 2 offers the audience a chance to experience “sculptures illustrating fragmentation, rupture, dismantling, and reconstruction” as well.
