The Seoul Museum of Art is presenting <Everyday, Art> at the Nam-Seoul Museum of Art through July 30.
<Everyday, Art> comprises a total of 13 works, including 12 new pieces, that sit at the intersection of two domains: the functional realms of design, architecture, and craft, and the appreciative realm of fine art.
Four artists who work across the genres of design and contemporary art, or who borrow their concepts and methodologies, are taking part. ▲Kwon Joong-mo is a lighting designer drawing attention for combining traditional Korean materials such as hanji, ink, and lacquer in diverse ways and giving contemporary form to subtle domains of light. He unfolds three new works—drawing their motifs from hanok windows and traditional furniture—in harmony with the Western-style architecture of the Nam-Seoul Museum.
▲Lee Seul-gi is a leading mid-career Korean artist who creates sculpture and installation works that reinterpret everyday objects and oral literature from various cultures in a contemporary way. In this exhibition, she presents four new works from <Bibi Project: U>, her signature series expressing proverbs on quilted blankets as geometric planes of color.
▲Lim Jeong-ju is a contemporary artist who explores an interest in the function of objects through a variety of forms, as well as a designer who produces diverse objects and furniture. Lim presents works such as <Non-Eloquent Group>, which invites viewers to imagine the uses of an object, and <Non-Eloquent for a Totem>, which reinterprets the space of the Nam-Seoul Museum.
▲Hwang Hyung-shin is a furniture designer who uses materials such as metal and wood to create furniture through a method of “stacking” that draws on childhood memories of the city. In this exhibition, he presents <Layered Steel>, a solid, five-meter-wide structure that serves as a bench where many people can rest together without blocking the line of sight.