A 21-Foot-Tall Sculpture Of Stacked Charcoal Will Be On Display At Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center has been home to a multitude of powerful and eclectic sculptures from a massive gardening trowel to a crushed solo cup, and now an enormous stack of charcoal!
The sculpture is part of an entire 10,000-square-foot exhibition titled Origin, Emergence, Return from Korean artists Park Seo-Bo, Lee Bae, and Jin Meyerson on view from June 8 to July 26, 2023. Visitors will be able to explore three generations of Korean art with more than 70 works on display at the Rink Level Gallery.
According to the press release, “all three artists investigate and challenge the notions of abstraction through unique materials – Park with hanji (traditional Korean paper), Lee with charcoal, and Meyerson with CG (computer graphics) and AR (augmented reality).” Topics of life and death, presence and absence, and displacement and diaspora are all addressed through the different materials.
But the pièce de résistance is Lee Bae’s 21-foot tower of stacked charcoal that will stand tall in front of Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens. It’s the first time a Korean artist has occupied the sculpture space.
The towering stack of charcoal exists as a spiritual presence to the start of Origin, Emergence, Return. It “evokes the unavoidable memory of disasters heard from around the world, while also creating a contrast to the surrounding skyscrapers and a sense of touching the dimension before or after civilization,” shares the press release. The structure’s abstract appearance made from the natural properties of charcoal “embodies a desire to purify what humans cannot solve.”
The entire exhibition is part of Rockefeller Center’s larger celebration of Korean culture and heritage to come this July. Korean cuisine, fashion, art, music and gastronomy will be showcased on campus from July 19 to 23 through special events, offerings, and pop-ups.
Learn more on Rockefeller Center’s website.
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