Minsuk Cho
dal 19/11/2014 al 31/1/2015
Segnalato da
19/11/2014
Minsuk Cho
Plateau - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Before/After Mass Studies Does Architecture. The exhibition reexamines architecture as a concurrent force of contemporary art
Before/After Mass Studies Does Architecture. With the constant blurring between the boundaries of art and architecture, the exhibition reexamines architecture as a concurrent force of contemporary art that shapes the cultural terrain of our time. As the everyday gains importance, contemporary art emphasizes the experience of the artwork as a site-specific, architectural space. Contemporary architecture, on the other hand, delves into installations within the spaces of art and publicity and the performative nature of the discipline. Before/After provides an overview of Cho's work over the past 12 years. Centered on the before and after of doing architecture, it offers a critical reflection on the status of the architectural discipline in Korea and in the global arena. Minsuk Cho studies the fundamentals of architecture and observes the logic of high-density urban life. While acknowledging that architecture operates within the mechanisms of the market, it proposes productive alternatives that imagine anew our identity and our relations of space. While incorporating existing systems such as the flat slab, Cho's concepts such as systematic heterogeneity, time-specific architecture, collective intimacy, and domino/dome-ino are intertwined with structural, material, spatial, and programmatic transformations that present the possibility of new ways of living. Co-curated by Soyeon Ahn and Hyungmin Pai.