Though the early stages of his career in the 1960s were rooted in Abstract Expressionism, Suk-Won Park\u2019s practice since the 1970s have acquired minimalistic traits, earning him a status as one of the most representative artists of Korean abstract sculpture. Park\u2019s pieces usually segment and combine essential geometric stone elements, placed in different positions. <\/p>\n\n
The work that Suk-Won Park built in Santo Tirso is at the confluence of Sculpture and Architecture. A place of prayer and retreat, or a memorial arch, it certainly conveys a disturbing ambiguity. Opening on the flanks and frontally impenetrable, the piece differs from the great classical arches, and rather looks like a small shelter or a domed crib-shaped corridor. In addition to the simple lines and austere materials, its lack of colour bears the gravity of funerary sculpture. <\/p>\n\n
In any case, its scale is undeniably human, as if made to contain the warmth of a body. Its double presentation \u2014 one side open, the other side closed \u2014 is not the result of random chance, but deliberately suggests a protective embrace. For all these reasons, the piece\u2019s intimate nature encourages introspection, in spite of its formal severity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4001,"template":"","categoria-da-obra":[95],"class_list":["post-4009","colecao","type-colecao","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-da-obra-07-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/colecao"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/4009\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-da-obra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-da-obra?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}