Dystopia
Seo Young Deok in Venice – 27th March 2019
Liquid art system is very proud to announce the upcoming show by Seo Young-Deok in Venice.
The South Corean artist will be the protagonist of Dystopia, an exhibition curated by Angelo Crespi at the Church of Misericordia, among the wonderful scenery of the city of Venice.
The church is one of the most charming and inspiring places for art in Venice: location of many art shows, it boasts a secular history built century after century. From Byzantine period, to the Gothic architecture during the Middle Age, to the Barocco.
Just as the the church, artworks by Seo Young-Deok communicate among different ages and cultures: his focus on the human body in very hyper realistic shapes connects with the post-industrial material, as chains, in particular the bike ones, referring to a post-human world.
The opening will be on March 27th, at 6:30 pm. The exhibition can be visited till April 14th.
Between fullness and emptiness are resolved the bodies modeled by Seo, which, in the empty space, hark back to Eastern philosophies and, in the full, to ancient Western culture. The intensity and plasticity of the poses is, in fact, that of classical Greek sculpture. While the ability to nullify the inside, that is, to represent only pure breath, is reminiscent of Zen and other Eastern disciplines that impose the extinction of all passion and awareness in order to avoid suffering, since movement is pain and only the absence of movement is peace.
