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…
Seoul, December 3, 2015 – February 14, 2015, http://plateau.or.kr I have been a fan of Lim Minouk since I saw the “S.O.S. Adoptive Dissensus” video in a group exhibition in Ilmin Museum a couple of years ago. It was a work which stood out among many others. I read through some of her catalogues, and…
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…
Plateau, Seoul, 7/4 – 12/8/2013 The Murakami show at Plateau Seoul has been on since the summer, however it was just in the autumn that I managed to stop by. Murakami’s work is so iconic that I did not consider it necessary to see, but after the visit I still found it worthy to see. The…
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…
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…
In December, I visited South Korea and had a look at what is happening there in terms of Fine Arts. I checked out some smaller privately managed spaces around Seoul like Artsonje Center, Kukje Gallery and Plateau as well as some public institutions like the Nam Seoul Museum of Fine Art and the National Museum…