East Contemporary

Tag: Plateau

Plateau: Liu Wei “Panorama”

Seoul, April 28 – August 14, 2016, http://www.plateau.or.kr Each room of the gallery contained one large sculptural installation made using a different material. Retro-futurist metal and translucent color plastic in a dialogue with Rodin’s Gates of Hell. Huge monolith-like blocks carved out of pressed and glued together books. Towering gothic cathedral-like assemblages of recycled construction…

Plateau: Elmgreen & Dragset “Aeroport Mille Plateaux”

Seoul, June 23 – October 18, 2015, Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, http://www.plateau.or.kr This show was a perfect match for Plateau’s space: Elmgreen & Dragset transformed Plateau into an airport-themed exhibition space, and in fact they only needed to add some small touches to complete the “transformation” of this space which in itself feels very similar to…

Gimhongsok “Good Labor Bad Art”

Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, March 7 – May 23, 2013 The main thing that stuck in my mind from seeing this show were the seemingly simple ‘arte-povera’-like sculptures (assemblages of cardboard boxes, trash bags, mattresses, wooden sticks) , which, after a close examination, revealed themselves as meticulously crafted ‘copies’ executed in bronze, resin etc. In the…

“(Im)Possible Landscape” at PLATEAU, Seoul

PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, http://www.plateau.or.kr November 2012 – February 2013 The show brought together a number of Korean artists by selecting artworks that have a relation to the central topic of “landscape”. In the entrance space of the gallery the visitor was greeted by a sound installation of bird and animal sounds accompanied…