iArt Sonje Center · Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu
A group sculpture show across The Ground, the hanok garden and the rooftop garden, asking how verticality, a core principle of sculpture and architecture, became a metaphor for masculinity.
Preview: written before the show opened
Seven sculptors and architects take the upright axis of the column and the monument and tilt it, turn it upside down, hang it and take it apart. Art Sonje's starting question is why verticality, a basic principle of sculpture and architecture, came to stand for masculinity, and the title moves from one vertical to many.
You find the work in The Ground and outside, in the hanok garden and on the rooftop garden. Choi Goen, in this year's Korean Pavilion in Venice, cuts and bends furniture, appliances and building fixtures. Leap Lee makes female figures in clay, plaster and steel that balance on several centres of gravity instead of one. Minhoon Kim builds from discarded objects and cut branches.
Art Sonje opens Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 6pm. Its standard adult ticket is 10,000 won, but special shows can be priced separately, so check the show page. On 1 November at 2pm, three of the artists talk about how sculpture can change a space.