Park Eun Sun. Infinita fluidità della pietra

The promenade of Viareggio, one of the most evocative and fascinating places in Versilia, is dotted with Liberty buildings as well as activity spots such as shops, restaurants and cafes that make the promenade the ideal, dynamic and vital stage for the works of the refined Korean artist Park Eun Sun.
A summer dedicated to contemporary art with geometric but at the same time sinuous and smooth shapes that represents the perfect synthesis between oriental style and poetics and a reference to the Florentine Romanesque tradition characterized by two-tone marble.
Park Eun Sun's marble and granite compositions develop in column, spiral or globular and spherical shapes made by alternating two colours and layering them in a way which creates harmonious sculptures, expertly shaped and deeply empathic.
The artist's experimentation begins with the material, the stone, almost in a scientific way, by enhancing it and at the same time deconstructing it - in fact, a fundamental characteristic of his contemporary gestures being that of imposing a fracture.
The marbles and granites are sculpted, polished and finally split before being reassembled. For the artist, these cracks are a metaphor for life, the scars of the suffering inherent in existence, but at the same time a symbol of reconstruction and rebirth.
This is Park's profound universal message that reaches the viewer through an involvement that destabilizes the balance through contrasting sensations induced by the opposition of smoothness and fracture, shadows and lights, play of light and dark, empty and full.
The monumental sculptures exhibited alongside the lively promenade accompany visitors on an artistic journey with a strong visual impact.
Near the very central Piazza Maria Luisa and Piazza Puccini, Colonna Infinita is the host, a monumental sculpture from 2016 that exceeds 11 meters in height and develops in a spiral column ascending to the sky in an alternation of white and grey marble slabs. Its solidity, tending to infinity, is marked by the artist's gesture of identity: the crack. These cracks flow along the surface allowing to have a glimpse of the material and create a silent dialogue with the surrounding environment that seems to flow inside.