LI QING: The Art Museum Suite No.1: A Suite of Eight Rooms
Arario Museum, Seoul
Long-term displayed from October 8.2015
This project is commissioned and collected permanently by Arario Museum, Seoul
‘Museum in Museum’ is an exhibition project where the artist stays at the ARARIO MUSEUM located in Seoul or Jeju Island to create new pieces of art. As part of the ‘Museum in Museum’ project, Li Qing created a house showing the artist’s daily life in the exhibition halls of the ARARIO MUSEUM in SPACE. The rooms are Salon, Study Room, Studio, Bedroom, Dining Room, Karaoke Room and Shower Boot. The design is based upon needs of specific groups including artists and viewers, who need to work, rest, socialize, self-present, entertain etc.
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LI QING: The Art Museum Suite No1: A Suite of Eight Rooms Plan
Just like subsidiary facilities such as stores and cafes in all other museums, images and materials within the contemporary art institution, including some artistic goods from the museum store and advertisements from art magazines are spread out in the rooms. Some related paintings are exhibited. Li Qing painted virtual landscapes from art magazines on the artificial windows.
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Left: Finding Differences·Gwangju (There are 5 differences in the two paintings) Acrylic on Canvas 50x40cm x2 2015
Right:<Monthly Art Magazine(Korea)> 2008/09P94 Magazine Page 27x21cm 2015
Left: Untitled(<Monthly Art(Korea)>2012/09P112) C-print 27x21cm x2 2015
Right: Art Acrylic on Canvas 80x65cm 2015
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This comprehensive suite alludes to the external environment the artist faces today, as well as his individual experience inside. It shows how the subject of contemporary artists are formed by today’s art scenes, but in the meantime they expect to reform the art scenes, which, in a sense, reveals the deficiency of contemporary art. One set of the photography refers to the artist’s reflection on the glass panels when he was shooting works during the show, as if self was indulged in the knowledge and interest of art.
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On the other hand, the suite designed by Li Qing is the smallest space unit in Space, a building characterized by small sized space. Every room is the extremely scaled-down version of everyday space, which makes it a weird space in-between everyday space and display space.
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Images of Partial Mutual Undoing·My Opening No.2 Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 50x70cmx2 2015
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