Glacier Museum will hold a special exhibition, "Beyond Black: Light, time and memory," from the 27th through Mar. 29 next year ahead of its official opening.
Located in Wonju, Gangwon Province, Glacier Museum is a contemporary art museum established through the art–community linkage efforts of the Hanmaeum Energy management and the Green Hope Cultural Foundation.
According to Glacier Museum on the 22nd, the exhibition centers on the radical experimental world of media art pioneer Aldo Tambellini and also presents immersive media works by Thai artist Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Korean artist Lee Lee-nam.
Tambellini is an artist who has crossed experimental film, video art and performance art, expanding the boundaries of media. He symbolically revealed a new "primitive age" opened by technological civilization. The galleries will unveil his vast body of work, including drawings, paintings, installations and video.
Kamin Lertchaiprasert's After Death Before Next Birth, shown alongside, begins with Buddhist philosophy and meditation to prompt reflection on the boundary between life and death. It is a work that condenses the artist's thought, cultivated through community-based art practices across diverse media such as painting, installation, printmaking and sculpture.
Lee Lee-nam's Dreaming Gwangju and the large-scale installation Poem-become-waterfall reinterpret historical memory and personal experience through digital media. Each leads viewers to empathize with Gwangju's pain on a universal level from historical trauma, unfolding letters and images, time and memory into a grand poetic landscape.
In 2016 at the Busan Biennale, Lee Lee-nam drew attention by presenting a collaborative exhibition that, for the first time for an artist, incorporated Google's virtual reality (VR)-based 3D painting tool. He is regarded as an artist who gives vitality and meaning to masterpieces that candidly reveal natural phenomena and the feeling of life, bringing new life to dazzling digital images.
Glacier Museum said, "This exhibition, where Tambellini's philosophy intersects with contemporary artists' interpretations, will present a new artistic horizon that encompasses technology and sensation, history and memory."