Hakgojae Gallery is pleased to present exhibition. This exhibition offers an opportunity to think about the virtue of design furniture through Korean traditional antiques and modern design furniture and paintings.
The design distinguishes itself from fine art by aiming to be in use in real life. Furniture as a necessity of life, combining aesthetics with practicality has been an important task of furniture designers to complete. Impractical furniture is often born when furniture concentrates on the pursuit of aesthetic and forgets functional and reasonable part. This can be concerned that the furniture lost its original attribute. However, furniture designers’ pursuit of aesthetic is a natural consequence since everyone seeks beauty. This exhibition shows exquisitely balanced Korean traditional antiques and modern design furniture with monochrome paintings. Displayed furniture, which pays its attention to simplicity beyond the boundaries of East and West, is consistent with monochrome paintings that reveal the essence of the target through a minimum of skill or adaptation.
This exhibition will show about 20 pieces of Korea antiques such as Bandaji, rubbing of Bongeunsa’s (a temple in Seoul, Korea) signboard, and bookcase paintings with furniture and lighting of beloved European designers including Martin Szekely, Hella Jongerius, Pierre Charpin, James Irvine, FRONT DESIGN, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. This furniture is practically designed to be easy to use and human caring philosophy is melted in it; at the same time, it provides an opportunity to experience fresh aesthetic through beauty of symmetry and transformation. The monochrome paintings, exhibited in conjunction with the furniture, help to think of what the virtue of design furniture is through a simplified canvas painted with the artists’ moderation. This exhibition, showing seemingly simple furniture and monochrome paintings, provides a time for rich and deep contemplation as well as visual rest away from the pageantry and confusion of the time.
