“Tadao Ando-Youth” Exhibition view at Museum SAN ©Museum SANMuseum SAN, located in Wonju, Gangwon Province, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with Tadao Ando-Youth the first large-scale solo exhibition of world-renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando in Korea, on view through July 30. This exhibition is Tadao Ando’s seventh international tour, following stops in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Shanghai, Beijing, and Taiwan, and his first exhibition in his designed space.
The exhibition’s title, “Youth,” refers to Tadao Ando’s beliefs and approach to architecture, as well as his sense of challenge and consciousness. The exhibition features more than 250 of the artist’s best-known works, including architectural works from the first half of his career, from 1969 to the mid-1990s, as well as his ’Projects in Naoshima’, completed over three decades, and public buildings around the world since the mid-1990s, through photographs, sketches, and model videos.
The exhibition is organized into four parts, with Part 1, ‘Primitive Shapes of Space,’ featuring architectural works from the first half of his career from 1969 to the mid-1990s, and Part 2, ‘Landscape Genesis,’ introducing the challenging public architecture of Tadao Ando. Part 3, ‘An Urban Challenge,’ explores how his unwavering spirit of the challenge has blossomed in public spaces around the world. Finally, Part 4, ‘Dialogues with History, introduces the renovation project.
Museum SAN, operated by the Hansol Cultural Foundation, is a minimalist architecture of flowers, water, stone, light, and exposed concrete hidden in the mountains, designed by Tadao Ando. It is also home to Asia’s largest installation by light and space artist James Turrel and has been a leading cultural space in Korea since its opening in May 2013, attracting more than 200,000 visitors annually.
