Hara Museum ARC (Gunma)
Along with the major expansion of its site, Hara Museum ARC commissioned new works to be added to its collection of permanently installed outdoor works. As two have already been completed, the last, but certainly not the least, is a beautiful installation entitled A Fragmentary Anatomy of Every Setting Sun by the renowned Korean artist Lee Bul. This stunning new work, which recently made its debut, creates an illusionary space of infinitely receding reflections using a huge 2.3-meter high one-way mirror. It is the largest so far of the artist’s Infinity series of works made with light boxes.
Lee Bul
A Fragmentary Anatomy of Every Setting Sun
polyurethane panel, acrylic paint, mirror, LED, etc
2010
photo by: Keizo Kioku
We celebrated the debut with an opening party on Saturday March 20 with the artist present. The sun was out and the weather was glorious, which made the previous week’s stormy weather seem like a bad dream.
A launch ceremony was held for each new work, during which the artist helped break open a barrel of sake with wooden mallets. We now have a full set of three mallets autographed by the artists!
The three new installations in question are A Fragmentary Anatomy of Every Setting Sun by Lee Bul, Kokoro by Jean-Michel Othoniel and Sunspace for Shibukawa by Olafur Eliasson. These join the many other installations that enliven the grounds of the newly reborn ARC. We hope you will come and enjoy them all.