2021년 성찬경전
〈사물, 아름다움의 구원〉

2021년 엄미술관의 기획전 《성찬경》은 시인 고 성찬경(1930~2013)의 시와 드로잉, 오브제 작업이 어우러진 일련의 아카이브 컬렉션을 소개한다. 버려진 물건을 거두는데 평생을 쏟았던 시인은 주변을 둘러싼 일상과 그 일상을 대변했던 생명이 다한 사물의 존재 가치를 마치 ‘돋보기 관점’으로 바라보며 폐기(廢棄)의 무가치로부터의 회생과 순환의 미를 탐구하고 이를 일상예술로 구현하였다. 전복적이며 소탈한 은유와 위트 그리고 낭만적 응시를 통해 사물에 관한 특별한 사유를 투영하였다. 마치 쓰임이 다한 것들의 소우주와도 같았던 ‘응암동 물질고아원’ 속에서 간과된 사물의 세계를 사유하며 사람, 일상, 미래의 모습을 그리며때로는 당대의 모순된 사회 비판을, 때로는 낭만적이고 유미적 사색을 통해 시적이며 내러티브적 존재로서 감정의 미학을 입힌 조형 물질로의 부활을 소환하였다.

이 기획전에서는 매체와 표현 방식의 경계를 자유로이 넘나들었던 전방위예술가의 50여 점 작업과 더불어 그의 작업을 주된 모티브로 하여 새로이 선보이는 동시대 예술가 안성석(1985, 뉴미디어, 설치)의 3D 애니메이션 영상 설치와 최혜란(1989, 회화, 설치)의 벽화작업을 포함하는 다면적 전시 구성을 통해 시문학-시각예술, 작고-현존 예술가의 실험적인매칭 전시로서 예기치 않은 매체의 조화와 표현의 다양성을 포용하는 입체적인 아카이브 전시를 구현한다


Archive Thoughts on Things

The exhibition Sung Chankyung presents a collection of items from the archive of a late poet Chankyung Sung (1930- 2013), encompassing his poems, drawings, and objets. The poet devoted his life to collecting discarded objects. He looked at the value of things that reached the end of life with traces of ‘extinction’ as if through a ‘magnifying glass’. He explored the aesthetic of resurrection and circulation from the worthlessness of discarding, embodying it as the art of everyday life. He projected his special thoughts on things through the subversive and simple metaphors, wits, and romantic gaze. The poet contemplated the overlooked world of things in the Eungamdong Orphanage for Materials, which resembled a microcosm of things that were used up. Pondering over people, daily life, and the future, he often criticized the ironies of the society of his time. Sometimes, he also summoned objects as poetic and narrativized beings, resurrecting them as formative materials endowed with emotive aesthetics. It was done through romantic and aesthetic reflections.

This exhibition presents more than fifty two- and three-dimensional artworks by Chankyung Sung as a free artist beyond the boundaries of media and expressive methods. In addition, the exhibition also presents new works by contemporary artists Sungseok Ahn (b.1985, new media and installation) and Hyeran Choi (b.1989, painting and installation), taking the poet’s work as the key motif. Ahn’s 3D animation video installation and Choi’s mural construct a multi-layered context for the exhibition, which paves the way to a rich archive exhibition that encompasses the harmony of the unexpected use of media and expressions, matching different genres of poetry and visual art as well as the deceased artist and living artists.

As a whole, the exhibition invites the viewers to encounter the attempts by two contemporary artists from different artistic realms to communicate via their visual languages with the artistic remains of a late artist by engaging with the poet that one cannot meet ever again and the mysterious micro-world of everyday objects that become extraordinary phenomena that seem to have personal characters. In the exhibition, it will be also meaningful to appreciate the perceptual and sensual reproduction of minds that show the circulation of experiences, words, and thoughts of the artists.


- 전시일정: 2021.07.13 - 09.26 
- 참여작가: 안성석(뉴미디어), 최혜란(회화)