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The Birth of Modern Art - Special Exhibition of Works from the Kunsthaus Zürich Collection
Korean original:
모던 아트의 탄생 - 스위스 쿤스트하우스 취리히 소장품 특별전
- Dates
- Nov 27, 2026 – Apr 18, 2027
- Area
- Yongsan (National Museum)
- Address
- 서울특별시 용산구 서빙고로 137
Visit planning
The calendar entry covers the whole run of the exhibition. Please check opening hours and closing days before your visit.
Further reading
Modern Sculpture현대 조각Sculpture's move from statues on pedestals commemorating people and events toward three-dimensional work concerned with material, weight, and the space around it.Read moreClose
01About
Modern sculpture is generally said to begin with Rodin. After him, Brâncuși distilled his subjects to their essential shapes, Picasso combined different objects and materials into one sculpture, Duchamp's Fountain (1917) presented a ready-made object as the work, and welded steel sculpture followed in the 1960s. Sculpture's concern moved from likeness and whom it honours to material, weight, balance, and the work's relation to the space around it and to the viewer's body. The sculpture park in Seoul's Olympic Park holds works by foreign artists invited to the cultural festival of the 1988 Seoul Olympics; they stand among lawns and paths and have become part of the landscape.
02In the gallery
Walk all the way around the work and notice the weight of its material, and how it stands, hangs, or leans.
Wall label terms in Korean
- 조각
- Sculpture
- 좌대
- Pedestal
- 기념비
- Monument
- 레디메이드
- Readymade
- 용접
- Welding
03Notes
Does this work stand on a pedestal, or straight on the floor? What difference does it make?
04Related
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