「Floating Hours: Moon is the Oldest Clock」 Exhibition in Deoksugung Art Museum.
『Floating Hours: Moon is the Oldest Clock』Exhibition in Deoksugung Art Museum.
SEOUL SOUTH KOREA, May 17th, 2010 - The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Director Soonhoon Bae) will host Floating Hours: Moon is the Oldest Clock the coming Saturday, May 8. This special exhibition has been found on the belief of recovering the delicate sense of time vastly forgotten in contemporary society where speed is virtue, and is a step toward restoring long lost humanity and life hidden in the subtle changes that reveals itself as time passes. As implied by the title the museum will exhibit pieces closest to nature portraying the continuity of time.
There is no better place than Deoksugung Art Museum for an exhibition of this theme. An unlikely cove of peace in the heart of a bustling city, the old palace garden embodies the elapse of time. Unlike its more traditional predecessors focused on familiar genres the exhibition will display bold new attempts at contemporary art whether it is installation, new media, or visual. Kim Ho-deuk, Kang Ik-joong, Shin Meekyoung, Han Eunsun, and Ham YounJoo will present installation art carefully arranged for optimum display. John Pai, Kim Hong Joo, Toh Yun-hee and other artists will debut their new works.Eleven artists (Kang Ik-joong, Kim Ho-deuk, Kim Hong Joo, Toh Yun-hee, Park Hyun-gi, John Pai, Paik Nam June, Shin Meekyoung, Lee JinJoon, Han Eunsun, Ham YounJoo) from different generations and backgrounds will come together to converse about ‘time.’
The exhibit will be divided into four sections. Each section has a theme, ‘river,’ ‘water,’ ‘moon,’ and ‘string,’ that serves as a metaphor of time. The words are also each linked to the verbs ‘flow,’ ‘spread,’ ‘fill, tilts and fill,’ and ‘continue.’
The curator, Namin Kim, remarks “The need for speed, efficiency, and convenience has become our second nature. It pushes us to crave for a fast simulation and solution. New values that reward efficiency attained through leaps and rapid changes domineer; on the other hand life and art that follows the natural cycle and the timeline has been left far behind. Overwhelming information and technologic advance has brought forth a vague sense of loss. Perhaps it has to do with the strong bond we once shared with the beings around us? The title Floating Time: Moon is the Oldest Clock asks us to look up at the sky instead of looking downward to look at the time on our watch. It urges us to search for the ancient tie between man and nature that allowed us to cultivate, assess physical periods, and give birth after ten months according to the moon’s phase.”
To celebrate this exhibition the director of Czech National Museum of Contemporary Art will be visiting Korea on the following Wednesday (May 12th), invited by Korea Foundation (Chairman Kim Seong-yeop). The exhibition will be held in the National Gallery for Foreign Art in Bulgaria and Czech National Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Korean Foundation during August to October to commemorate twenty years of friendship between the countries.
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