Location: Spazio Bidet(www.instagram.com/spaziobidet/)
정말 오래전 부터 하고 싶었던 퍼포먼스 작업입니다. 사실 저의 조각 작품들은 지극히 개인적인 행위가 기존에 존재하는 오브제나 물질 위에 가해지는 순간의 흔적입니다. 그래서 이 퍼포먼스를 보여주지않은 제 전시는 관객들에게 항상 작가로서의 최선을 다하지 않았다는 미안함이 있었습니다. 하지만 이렇게 공간을 새하얀 석고가루로 덮어버리는 퍼포먼스를 갤러리에 제안하기는 쉬운일이 아님을 아시겠지요? 밀라노 핫플레이스 와인바의 Spazio Bidet 전시장에서 초대된지라 특별히 그리스 술의 신 바커스의 두상을 만들어서 퍼포먼스를 준비했습니다. 이 퍼포먼스를 조심스럽게 제안했을때 즉석에서 받아준 Spazio Bidet의 오너인 토마스, 그리고 큐레이터 존에게 깊은 감사를 드립니다. 그리고 이 모든행위의 예술 영상과 사진을 맏아준 Zena, Elizabetta, 음향담당Rocco에게도 찬사를 보냅니다. 또한 Spazio Bidet 에게 나를 소개시켜준 친구이자 작가동료 Delio 에게도 고맙다는 말을 꼭 전하고 싶습니다. 오늘은 정말 즐거운 날입니다. 우리모두 술의 신 박커스를 생각하며 건배!
This is a performance work that I have wanted to do for a very long time. In fact, my sculptural works are the extremely personal traces of actions applied to pre-existing objects or materials. Because of this, I have always felt apologetic to the audience, feeling that I hadn’t done my best as an artist when I didn’t showcase this performance in my exhibitions. However, you can understand that proposing a performance that covers the space in white plaster powder to a gallery is not an easy task, right? I was invited to exhibit at Spazio Bidet, a hot spot wine bar in Milan, and specially prepared this performance by creating a bust of Bacchus, the Greek god of wine. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Thomas, the artist and owner of Spazio Bidet, and curator John, who immediately accepted my careful proposal for this performance. I also applaud Zena and Elizabetta for handling the video and photography of all these artistic actions, as well as Rocco for sound management. Additionally, I want to thank my friend and fellow artist Delio, who introduced me to Spazio Bidet. Today is truly a delightful day. Let’s all toast, thinking of Bacchus, the god of wine!
– press release –
It all started from a piece of rusty iron from the street that he sanded and then polished by hand until it was as reflective as a mirror. Then he sanded a sculpture of a classic bust until half the face disappeared. The missing part is the one that interests him, at least the dialogue that is created between the visible part and the one that was removed. He liked it. He did other tests on other recovered busts and then rather than sanding existing sculptures he thought it to be better if he would create them in clay, mold them in plaster and then sand them. From recovering objects and alter- ing them, he decides to make them himself before canceling part of them. He also made a self-portrait which he sanded down. Then he adapts to the people and places with which he collaborates. When the exhibition project for Spazio Bidet arrived, he decided to honor the enoteca La Botte by proposing the bust of Bacchus which he modeled in clay, then molded in plaster, reworked the details to finally take it into the exhibition space. This time we are taking a new step, he will sand down the work he created in recent months during the opening of the exhibition directly in the window of Spazio Bidet. -Are we in your workshop or in an exhibition space? -In my workshop, in an exhibition space. -Why not go directly to your workshop rather than here then? -There are too many works in my studio. We’re going to focus on how I make one. One of the themes that interests me here is that we no longer know whether the work is finished or not. In an exhibition, a work is generally finalized. Visitors see it in its exposed state, and therefore it is not “under construction”, it is perceived as it is shown. On the other hand, in a workshop, a work can be retouched at any time, improved, destroyed, etc. In the workshop, everything is still possible, whereas in the exhibition space, everything is frozen. – So is the work sculpture or is it performance? – It’s both, right? It’s good when it’s blurry. T-Yong brings us a work into the Bidet exhibition space to work on it during the opening during a work production performance. The space takes on the appearance of a workshop. On the one hand we visit a friend in his workshop who is finishing a sculpture, and on the other we attend an opening performance.
