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17/7/2002

Bahk Seon-Ghi

Artinprogress, Berlin

Existence - Illusion
in collaboration with Arch. Pierre André Podbielski

within: Rethinking: space time architecture ­ A dialogue between art and architecture.
Parallel to XXI World Congress of Architecture - UIA Berlin 2002

My work fouses the relationship between man and nature. Culture is chosen to represent architectural culture in which man lives and acts, anc charcoal is chosen to represent nature, the last appearance of the trees that stand with us in the world. It is a self-evident truth that I can think of a great number of meanings and forms because of architectural structures being dependent on usefulness and charcoal being one of the last appearances of nature. I thikit is wrong when man in western developed culture draws every center of the world, including the whole order of the universe, to humanity.
Bahk Seon-Ghi

The project ­ shared with the Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Milan ­ is created by Bahk Seonghi in collaboration with P.A. Podbielski for "Rethinking: space, time, architecture" and concerns the relationship between man and nature, between European culture, in which the man predominates the nature, and the oriental culture, in which the man still feels part of the nature.
The site-specific installation "Existence - Illusion" exploits the disposition of Artinprogress Gallery's space on two levels connected by an area of double hight. On the ground floor and in the highest area the visitor enters inside a colonnade alluding to the classical architecture. The descending staircase to the inferior level connects the European culture with the culture of the country of Bahk's origins: The threes and the various decorative elements at the basement are referring to the oriental gardens. Both landscapes are realized with coal pieces suspended by nylon threads from the ceiling that form fragile structures alluding to the caducity of the human material culture.

Bahk Seonghi is born 1966 in SunSan (South Korea); since 1995 he lives and works in Milan.
Hes work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions, among which:
2001 "No Human", Arsenale Thetis, Venice; Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milan;
2000 "Arte si parte", Fondazione Sirssu, Lugano (CH); 1999 "Salon of Natural Artists", Musée National de l'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, "Passaggi a nord-est" Città dell'Arte, Biella (I); 1998 "Periscopio 1998", Cascina Roma, San Donato Milanese (I).

Opening: Thu., 18 July 2002, 6-10 pm

Galleries Tour: Wed., 24 July 2002, 5-9 pm

Opening hours: Tue-Fri 2-7 pm, Sa 1-6 pm

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Linienstr. 156/157, D-10115 Berlin
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