Waterfall Mansion & Gallery
at San Clemente Palace Kempinski Venice
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Waterfall Mansion & Gallery is a prominent gallery located at the center of Manhattan, NY and also a cultural hub of community for leading artists and entrepreneurs to pioneer in culture care. Waterfall Mansion & Gallery dedicates in developing platforms and programming for artist’s creativity and careers and in the inventive art collaborations with over 400 international contemporary artists and is a respected brand for its authenticity, hospitality, and steady commitment to excellence.
Waterfall Mansion & Gallery is honored to be partnered with the San Clemente Palace Kempinski Venice to participate in the Biennale Architettura 2021 presenting artists of current 2021 Art/Act Exhibition <LIGHT HOUSE+> in NYC.
ARTIST | sun k. kwak
Featured Artwork
Space Drawing _ A Tale of an Eagle, 2021
Polished stainless steel, polyurethane paint
173 W x 270 H x 92 D cm
130,000 USD
For any artwork inquiries, please contact gun@waterfallmansion.com
Sun K. Kwak created A Tale of an Eagle as an autobiographical piece during the pandemic in 2020-2021. A Tale of an Eagle originated from her Eagle drawing that was created in response to her challenging time. The drawing was inspired by a story of an eagle overcoming hardship and soaring higher for the second chapter of its life. As a visual response to the story, Sun created an abstract drawing where an eagle flies into and soars above the storm and embraces nature and the people as a metaphor for an acceptance of challenges and a breakthrough through liberation.
The artwork was developed as Sun recalled the significant time of struggle and brought out Eagle drawing during the pandemic lock down and rolled the piece. She recreated the 2D drawing by “rolling” it into 3D form as a symbolic action for wrapping up all the obstacles of an artist. This concept originated from her traveling motif drawing project among her Space Drawing series that has traveled to different cities and constantly evolved in response to each specific site using diverse materials in various approaches. The work started to travel in 2006 from Seoul (Korea) to Madrid (Spain) to New York (USA) to Taichung (Taiwan), and finally was back to Seoul (Korea). Rolling Space (2015), the final traveling piece of this project, was created in a rolled form of the motif drawing Space Take-out as a symbol of wrapping up the long journey. Expanding its dimension, the work became the inspiration for creating A Tale of an Eagle, Sun’s first Open-Air Space Drawing series.
A Tale of an Eagle, made of polished stainless steel, is fabricated with Lamberti - the renowned Italian artisan company specializing in metal production. Working virtually with a production team was a unique challenge that Sun faced during the pandemic as the fabrication required a thorough communication.
As Sun’s rolled up Space Drawing piece meets the new medium, polished stainless steel, A Tale of an Eagle expands into a new arena in an open-air setting and embodies the surrounding nature and people together in the artwork through its reflection.
Placed in a historical venue as San Clemente Palace Kempinski, A Tale of an Eagle invites viewers to interact for the completion of the artwork.
space drawing series
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sun K. Kwak is a Korean interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her most well-known series is Space Drawing, composed of simple impromptu masking tape drawing that transforms a space into a new "pictorial reality" where the fullness of dynamic energy mingles and flows, creating a space of limitless wonder and possibilities.
Kwak has had site-specific solo exhibitions in places such as Brooklyn Museum (New York), Queens Museum (Bulova, New York), New Art Gallery (Walsall, England), the Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, Canada), the Charles B. Wang Center (Stony Brook University, New York), and Gallery Skape (Seoul, Korea). Group exhibitions include the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (South Korea), the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), “Works & Process” a collaborative drawing performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the 6th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea).
MUSIC PICK
La Gitana by Fritz Kreisler
Violinist, Kyung Sun Lee
Music curated by Korea Music Foundation for each artists represented by Waterfall at the San Clemente Palace Kempinksi Venice for further appreciation of the artworks.