Haegue Yang - Hatje Cantz

A light gray booklet presented on a white background. The cover features a central photograph of a decorative, light brown woven wicker vase with two wing-like sides. The vase is topped with a small bouquet of green succulents and white flowers, and decorated with dangling, iridescent shell discs. In the upper left corner of the cover, there is a green and white geometric pattern.

An angled photograph of a book titled The Cone of Concern by Haegue Yang, resting on a white surface. The cover features a colorful abstract artwork with red, orange, and blue geometric shapes and patterns, including a spiky sphere and a stylized figure. The book has an exposed, stitched spine.

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An open book displays a photograph of an art installation in a modern gallery. The central piece is a large, abstract sculpture on wheels, composed of colorful, woven, organic shapes. The forms are red, orange, and a gradient of green and yellow. The red section is adorned with thin white tendrils. In the background, another wooden sculpture and a geometric screen are visible.

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A two-page spread from an art book. The left page shows a close-up photograph of a sculpture made of long, straight black hair tangled with an assortment of blue, purple, and metal hair rollers. The right page features the title The Motion of Emotion by June Yap, along with descriptive text and two smaller photos of totem-like sculptures.

A page from an art book or catalog. On the left is a close-up photograph of a contemporary woven sculpture, which is red and spherical with small, cream-colored woven nodes on its surface where thin reeds radiate outwards. On the right side, against a plain grey background, is the table of contents for the book, showing chapter titles and page numbers in a reddish-brown serif font.

An article page from a publication. On the left is a close-up photograph of a round, woven sculpture topped with a dense arrangement of dried flowers and succulents. On the right, a column of text on a gray background is titled The Wind that Becomes Form by Esther Lu, introducing an essay about an art exhibition.

A split image showing details of colorful, woven sculptures. On the left, artificial plants like a bird of paradise and a cactus emerge from turquoise, dome-shaped woven planters. On the right, a close-up shows a large, intricately woven sculpture in blue, yellow, and red, with cone-shaped legs on caster wheels.

An art installation of three complex, machine-like sculptures on rolling metal frames stands in a spacious gallery with a concrete floor. Each sculpture is a chaotic assembly of wires, glowing lightbulbs, and various found objects. Exposed silver ductwork hangs from the ceiling above the display.

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A two-page spread from an art book, pages 156 and 157, displaying black text with red-orange headings and four color photographs of various sculptures. The artworks pictured include five small, abstract creature-like figures, several dark hanging woven forms, a tall conical sculpture covered in straw, and a stylized, striped figure with an orange fringe from Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet.

A two-page spread from a book. The left page contains publication credits in black and red text on a gray background. The right page features a close-up photograph of an artwork composed of hundreds of small, metallic jingle bells in alternating brass and nickel colors, arranged in a dense grid with a shallow depth of field.

Haegue Yang

The Cone of Concern

€ 40.00

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By (artist): Haegue Yang

July 2024, 160 Pages

Hardcover

210mm x 281mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5683-9

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Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern documents the Korean artist's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila. Known for her unique interweaving of conceptual language and aesthetic vocabulary, Yang, who lives and works in Berlin and Seoul, is one of the most widely exhibited artists of today as well as a professor at the renowned Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.
The Cone of Concern, which takes its name from a graphical tool used in weather forecasting, which traces the path of an oncoming storm, represents humanity's attempt to confront natural phenomena. Yang explores this concept as a way for the human imagination to understand our own condition in the universe, and as a metaphorical notion of solidarity among those facing difficult circumstances. The publication revisits her complex layering of objects—woven anthropomorphic sculptures, light sculptures, rotating sound bells, whirlwind-derived structures, textile canopies, and sound elements—against a lenticular print backdrop of a digitally altered meteorological image.

HAEGUE YANG (*1971, Seoul) lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. Since 2017 she has been Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally, such as the Venice Biennale; documenta, Kassel; at Centre Pompidou, Paris; and at Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

EXHIBITION
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila
October 15, 2020 - March 31, 2021