Gwacheon ‘90, 1990

Wood and paint, 43,2x40x39,5 cm
Mauro Staccioli Archive Museum, Volterra

The irregular, thin, soaring and bright red triangle appears as an exclamation mark but also acts as an element of solicitation, as a questioning provoked by the sculpture’s apparent precarious balance. In 1990 Staccioli designed a sculpture for the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Seoul: an identifying sign for the Korean museum balanced suspended at a point on the outer, curved line of the building, which is placed on the top of a verdant slope from which the plastic intervention with its bright red stands out. The museum thus becomes a work of art itself and prefigures the idea of beauty that it contains. A few years later, in 1996, the irregular triangle is proposed once again in the intervention he realizes for Bob Orton‘s Californian villa. This time the sculpture is placed in relation to a garden hedge.

© Enrico Fontolan, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Insitute, Roma. Courtesy Archivio Mauro Staccioli.
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