Haegue Yang Sol Lewitt Upside Down. The modern is visible on entering the building’s expansive atrium: Haegue yang / sol lewitt upside down (via t15081_571030_10.jpg (1536×1016)).
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The Modern Is Visible On Entering The Building’s Expansive Atrium:
Yang has adorned the forms by adding aluminium venetian blinds, an accent or umlaut emphasising the word or changing it all together. Her piece, four times sol lewitt upside down — version point to. Haegue yang, sol lewitt upside down, image courtesy national gallery singapore.
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It references the famed 1960s minimalist artist sol lewitt, and his work with white cubic structures, modularity, and repetition. While the sculpture becomes more opaque as its volume increases and the layers of blinds accumulate, in its shallow areas the units. Haegue yang explores the language of visual abstraction through the affective power of materials.
For The First Time, Two Very Different Types Of Venetian Blind Installations Are Juxtaposed In A Single Room:
Korean artist haegue yang transforms spaces so that they are constantly shifting and directing our experience. Nowhere in yang’s exhibition will you find any visual indicator of the great grey beast. Sol lewitt upside down is a direct reference to sol lewitt’s structure with three towers (1986), replacing the edges that served as basic units delineating the volume of the sculpture’s squares with the faces of sets of blinds, installed horizontally.
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Aluminum venetian blinds, aluminum hanging structure, powder coating, steel wire. Haegue yang’s sol lewitt upside down: Born 1971, seoul, south korealives and works in seoul and berlin, germany.
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Functioning as a sort of grand chandelier, the work lights the space with slender white neon tubes and fills. Standing before you are two 'sol lewitt vehicles (2018),' which combine her ‘sol lewitt upside down,’ a large installation made of blinds unveiled at a solo exhibit at leeum samsung museum of art four years ago, and ‘dress vehicles (2011~),’ a sculpture that people can put on like clothes and control. Referring to modernist art history, literature, and social and political events, haegue yang transforms spaces through light, colour, objects and movement to ensure.
