T-YONG CHUNG | CONTACT, THE LAST SUPPER 

December 12, 2024 | March 30, 2025
Visible 24 hours a day | Via Aleardo Aleardi 11, Milan

Opening December 12, 6.30 pm

SCONFINA was born from the dialogue between Rossana Ciocca and Helga Franza Project partner: Fondazione Arthur Cravan, Milan
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“Contact” is the title of the cycle of works by Korean artist T-yong Chung that investigates and redesigns full and empty, light and rituality of all those containers we define cups, objects historically traceable in all cultures and historical eras; bowls are the first and oldest sculptural forms created by humans. The cup is a primary form, the most anthropomorphic, its origin is traced in the gesture of two hands cupped together. Their shape is widespread throughout the globe from antiquity to nowaday and in all cultures. The first bowls and cups in wood or terracotta date back to prehistoric times and in any continent have always been a fundamental part of kitchen rituals, historically marking the transition to the settlement of people in certain places. Similar forms are present in all the world’s archaeological and ethnographic museums.

For SCONFINA T-yong Chung decided to confront and make “contact” with Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Touching and penetrating each others to communicate, as in the meeting of the hands of the apostles, in the chalcographic work

Contact, The Last Supper twelve different containers, vases, jugs, amphoras, from prehistory to contemporaneity, both oriental and western, float in the white linen canvas and merge originating new shapes.

During the night, the artist’s canvas is transformed into a dynamic display thanks to a video made with the technique of video mapping by T-yong Chung with Zena (Vincenza Gervasi, visual artist), projected on the work itself. A sequence of bowls bursts between the forms of Contact, The Last Supper, creating a dialogue between manual and digital work, physical and virtual dimensions, mixing the classic technique of chalcographic work with technology. Different eras, forms, materials and languages coexist and blur into each other, they merge into a single space, empty and vibrant, as if to remind us that the border between people and cultures does not exist.

Photo@Filippo Romano & Elisabetta Nari