PS ROY's collaborative project “SCULPTURE CENTER” with artist Gwon Osang continues to explore the interactive relationship between art and the urban commercial landscape and examines contemporary possibilities of sculpture. The second exhibition, SCULPTURE CENTER 2/4, investigates how sculpture relates to its surroundings and demonstrates how sculpture functions within an urban context.

 

Gwon has developed a unique sculptural approach through both material and medium. His work departs from traditional sculptural materials and utilizes styrofoam as the primary medium. He attaches photographs to its surface and coats it with resin, simultaneously achieving visual weight and physical lightness. This approach intersects the planar nature of photography with the volumetric quality of sculpture and opens new horizons for contemporary sculpture.

 

This exhibition features new works in Seated Torso and Wind Hole Relief, and PATH OF THE WIND. These works are characterized by the sculptural element of “holes” born from his protensive examinations. By creating holes within the sculptures, Gwon draws space into the work's structure. Moving beyond formal experimentation, he questions the interaction between the sculpture's interior and exterior—between space and the work itself. Here, the hole functions not merely as a physical defect, but as a structural device forming a field where sculpture and space, object and air, coexist. 

 

Seated Torso is a work produced as a tangential extension to his acclaimed, Deodorant Type series which began in the late 1990s. Varied into a more abstract form, the reclining figure departs from the stable human figure. Borrowing from the language of British sculptor Henry Moore, Gwon attaches photographs onto the organic, life-like curved structure. In this process, the work acquires holes of various sizes. The holes allow the viewer to penetrate the sculpture's interior, circulating the gaze along with the flow of air. This porous approach reflects the artist’s view of perceiving sculpture not as a mere self-contained material entity but as an open presence in constant communion with the surrounding space. 

 

Wind Hole Relief and PATH OF THE WIND, placed on the walls, are relief works featuring holes and curves that appear as if shaped by the wind. The pieces create airflow along their smooth surfaces, breathing organically with the space. This work, combining the flat and the three-dimensional in photography and material, allows the viewer to contextually experience sculptural materiality within the space. 

 

SCULPTURE CENTER 2/4 explores the intersection of space and sculpture, two-dimensional image and three-dimensional material, and the viewer's experience through Gwon’s sculptures. Through the holes and the flow of air we visualize the point where sculpture and space meet, questioning fundamentally the nature of space. 

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