2020 Changwon
Sculpture
Biennale

Untitled(professional deformation)

Here, we have a cube-shaped structure, a typical example of minimal art of the 1960s. But it looks a bit odd. Did someone perhaps break it during installation? No, the broken cube itself is a complete work of art. It makes us ponder the meaning of non-sculpture. The internal structure was built with cut plywood and later reinforced with plasterboard. Once the shape was created, the act of breaking it completed the work. In other words, this is a deconstructive sculpture that breaks away from the elements of sculpture, rather than the one clearly defined by its volume and mass. WICHEROTH says although he relies on dismantlement and destruction, they are not the goal of his work. What he means is that the destruction of a sculpture is the process of creating, as much as the construction of a sculpture is. Dismantling the framework requires labor, just as building and covering it does. The artist meticulously planned and executed the act of dismantlement and destruction to create this deconstructive sculpture, which looks like the result of a seemingly accidental fall. The work is a statement that dismantlement and destruction, too, can be the act of creating art and a constructed sculpture.