Claudia Comte from Switzerland
Art solo exhibition ‘Resurrection from the Ashes… ‘
Red-hot lava and black horns can be seen through the glass windows of the museum, which are surrounded by smooth white walls. In the small glass booth exhibition hall at the entrance to the museum, there is a large marble sculpture made to resemble the shape of a crumpled aluminum can. A paradoxical landscape where a volcano erupts and everything turns black, but it seems to be overflowing with energy. This is a view of Swiss artist Claudia Comte’s solo exhibition ‘Resurrection from the Ashes: A Story of Rebirth’.
The exhibition held at the K&L Museum in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do consists of a red carpet covering all floors of the museum and walls and sculptures painted black with dirt. The K&L Museum building does not have separate floors, but the first to 1.5 floors and the second floor are connected by a wide staircase. The artist, who visited Korea for the opening of the exhibition, said, “When I saw the shape of the museum building, I imagined lava flowing.”
Accordingly, the artist custom-made a ‘lava carpet’ using computer graphics (3D simulation) and created the appearance of lava falling from the third floor to the first floor of the museum. A wave pattern is drawn on the black mural painted on the wall, adding to the liveliness. All over the floor are pieces of an iguana on a burnt tree, a hummingbird on a cut down tree, a dead fish on a stone, a golden toad, an extinct animal, and a piece of a mammoth’s tusk rising from the ground.
This exhibition was also inspired by German film director Werner Herzog’s documentary ‘Into the Inferno’. In the documentary, volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer and director Herzog visited active volcanoes around the world and not only filmed the majesty of lava, but also showed the various lifestyles of people living nearby. When a volcano erupts, it burns and destroys everything, but the ashes become fertile fertilizer and become the basis for creating a new ecosystem.
K&L Museum is a private art museum affiliated with clothing manufacturer SMK International, and opened in September last year with the solo exhibition ‘Total Art’ by Austrian avant-garde artist Hermann Nitsch. The first and second floors of the museum are exhibition halls, and the third floor has a cafe where you can browse art books. This exhibition runs until December 28th.
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