Exhibition Information

			Traditionally we have categorized works of art into various disciplines, such as sculpture, painting, film and photography based on the medium of art that artists have chosen to use in embodying their works, and which have become the means for their artistic aim. Artists who have used a plastic medium as art tools to establish and manifest artists' unique views of art are now accepting the latest new technology, according to the demand of the times, or in order to do new creative explorations. Artists who participate in the exhibition <New Horizons for Art’s Sake> are escaping from their symbolic medium which is originally connected with the artists’ world of art, and using the common art medium called OLED TV screen, obscures the medium-based division of Plastic art. This exhibition re-interprets the general categorization theory in the Plastic arts and takes off from the hypothesis ‘If every artist uses the same medium of art’. The excellent expressive power of the medium combined with OLED technology enables us to focus on the visual message of the work, as intended by the artist. It introduces works that take up the challenge to pursue new genres of art, in which the act of seeing and appreciating art becomes simpler and purer, without the necessity for additional remarks on genre or medium of art. 

 

“What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more. Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, much less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.” 

 

p.34, Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag 

 

With AnishKapoor, JohnAkomfrah, Leedonggi, LeeJihyun, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Shirazh Houshiary and Tobais Rehberger.

 

Supported by LG OLED ART, Lisson Gallery and Gallery Osquare 


(source = gallery o square)