Kimsooja, "To Breathe - Archived of Prototypes", at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kanaal скачать в хорошем качестве

Kimsooja, "To Breathe - Archived of Prototypes", at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kanaal

This exhibition, To Breathe - Archive of Prototype, features two central interventions from Kimsooja’s oeuvre: her permanent stained-glass windows in Metz Cathedral (2022), and her fourteen-metre-high steel sculpture in the form of a needle, realised for Cornell University (2014) and on display today in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Both installations uniquely engage with air and light, with our perspective on the universe, with collective memory, and with traditional and scientific industries such as glassblowing and nanotechnology. Kanaal’s Patio Gallery features an installation of fifteen stained-glass windows, titled “Meta-Painting”, that fills the central space with the subtle glow of their colour spectrum. Kimsooja created these works following her intervention in the south transept of Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz, in collaboration with glassblower Pierre-Alain Parot (Dijon). Like a dimensional painting, without brush and paint, this intervention builds on central notions in Kimsooja's art: performance through “non-doing”, a statement through “non-invention”, thus exploring concepts such as materiality and immateriality, mobility and immobility, duality and totality.