Park Eun Sun – Mario Botta. Sculpture and Architecture Between East and West
17 september – 19 december
For the first time in Switzerland, the sculptural work of Park Eun Sun enters into dialogue with the drawings and scale models developed by Mario Botta for the Infinito Museum project. The encounter between the two creators gives rise to a compelling exhibition, in which sculpture and architecture engage as autonomous yet complementary languages, inviting a broader reflection on the relationship between form, space, and matter.
Born in 1965 in Mokpo, South Korea, Park Eun Sun has lived and worked in Pietrasanta, on the Tuscan coast, since the 1990s. An international centre for marble working, Pietrasanta has provided the setting in which Park developed a distinctive and rigorous sculptural practice, founded on the equilibrium between tension and harmony, solidity and fracture, monumentality and restraint. His international acclaim now finds further expression in the design of a museum dedicated to his work in South Korea, entrusted to the architectural vision of Mario Botta.
Eun Sun Park, 2021 em>Ph. Roberto Pellegrini
Spes, 1995
Niki de Saint Phalle, Two-Headed Serpent, 1981-1982, Resina poliestere dipinta su base in ferro, 68 x 115 x 35 cm, Collezione privata © Niki Charitable Art Foundation / 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich
A Dialogue Between Sculpture and Architecture
Extending over two floors, the exhibition invites the visitor to explore a landscape of relationships: between East and West, between artistic gesture and architectural thought, and between the physical presence of the work and the conceptual dimension of the project. The exhibition thus offers a perspective, both contemplative and tangible, on two creative practices that challenge our understanding of space and transform it into lived experience.
