In partnership with the Korean Cultural Services New York, we gathered last Saturday Dec 13,  to see Space in 36.5°C,  to hear artist Jihwan Park and to participate in an art workshop.  Jinwan Park is one of the artists exhibiting at the Korean Cultural Services in New York along with Eunsun Choi, Soohyun Hong, Seoryang Kim, Jeongeun Lee, Michael Sangwon Lee.

For the first part of the afternoon, Jinwan Park shared his art work. His work consists mainly of paintings, sculptures and performance. He went into explaining his concepts behind his art making and specifically his relation with words, materials and art itself. He also introduced his  commission work in the filed of arquitectural design. These works involves ussually large scale sculptures, larger budgets and much bigger amount of people involved. He gave us a glimpse into how is it like to work under commissions and the compromised that always exists in clients based work.

The second part was an art hands-on workshop.  He set up four tables. Each table contained different materials and a word that participants should work on. Kiwi, Love, Pure and Hair were the four words. Participants naturally gather into four groups and choose a table to work on. We had approximately 30 min to work on a sculpture or installation, no rules whatsoever. We had to articulate the word and the materials into an art piece.

The results were inspiring and surprising. An eye opening for modes of collaboration and let the intuition be the guide.  At the end, each group talk briefly his experience during the process of making and the ideas developed while in the process.