The Hyundai Seoul showcases a variety of art projects, offering new experiences for visitors. Composed of open spaces from the first floor to the ceiling, the unique architectural charm of the building is well-utilized through installed hanging art pieces. Highly reputed works by artists Park Seon-ki and Seo Hye-young can be appreciated from below by looking up from the first floor, perfectly complementing The Hyundai Seoul's natural lighting and open space design.
Park Seon-ki's An Aggregation 180609
This artwork, composed of elements reflecting images of light and space, expands the given space. The simple and clear form of the piece creates an elegant and purified atmosphere, highlighting the characteristics of the materials. The tens of thousands of elements and strings interact with the surrounding environment, making viewers perceive that the materials are not merely floating in the air but are fixed within a solid structure.
Seo Hye-young's One Whole-Intimate Boundary
The motif of simply patterned bricks has become a tool for dividing space, recalling the shape of a brick with thickness and volume, an image that has been accumulated through our visual experience and conceptual interpretation over a long period of time. The wall constructed is thus a boundary separating the inside and outside, becoming a world built at the point where two spaces converge. In reality, a wall creates a space that is a collection of many facets that cannot form a single whole, protecting us from active entities and all things unknown or unfamiliar. As a fixture of daily life, the wall is too familiar to be an object of philosophical contemplation, yet it exists as an invisible boundary and a point of connection. Everything visible to our eyes, emerging from the invisible, becomes a part and the whole of our lives. In this monotonous rectangular world, each part is individual but also belongs to the other, continuously constructing and deconstructing the boundary between part and whole, and whole and part.
