Video: Korea Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2011, by Lee Yongbaek
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A few days ago, we told you about a culinary installation in the courtyard of the Chinese Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale. Now we want to tell you about another national pavilion, this time, the Korean one.
The Korean pavilion displays fourteen works by major contemporary South Korean artists. But we will tell you only about the three most interesting of them, the authorship of which belongs to an artist named Lee Yongbaek.
The first is the Angel Soldier series. These works clearly show that among the most peaceful and beautiful things, sometimes you can not notice the danger. And that evil often hides under a harmless guise. The artist achieved this effect by creating a military camouflage decorated with flowers.
The next two works under the general title "Pieta" depict humanoid figures. In one of them, called "Self-torture," one figure beats another, completely identical to her. In another, called "Self-Death", one figure holds another in his arms, carefully observing the process of her dying.
Well, the third work by Lee Yongbaek, presented at the Venice Biennale 2011, is called "Plastic Fish". She depicts colorful bright bait fish and symbolizes the fatal temptation, which is fraught with everything bright and beautiful.
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