2026.03.09 17:26
Collaboration on art and performance with the theme of Isang Yoon… Conductor Lee Eol “It was similar to the music in my imagination and the exhibition images.”
Hae-Gyu Yang and LA Philharmonic ‘Mixed Rendezvous’… “I hope it will be a peace concert in a noisy world”
Collaboration on art and performance with the theme of Isang Yoon… Conductor Lee Eol “It was similar to the music in my imagination and the exhibition images.”
(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Kyung-yoon = “The world is very turbulent. There are many wars, conflicts, and fears… I think my work should not be a story of ‘yin and yang’ or ‘black and white,’ but a story that constantly goes back and forth between them. From a distance, shouldn’t it be a ‘Peace Concert’?”
Installation artist Hae-gyu Yang said this while presenting a special collaboration program, ‘Strange Rendezvous,’ with the LA Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (LA), USA, on the 9th (local time).
‘Crossed Rendezvous’ is a special art collaboration program where music and art meet.
The Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art (LA MOCA) presents Hae-Gyu Yang’s solo exhibition titled ‘A Crossed Rendezvous with the late Yoon Isang’, and after viewing it, the LA Philharmonic presents Isang Yoon’s ‘Double Concerto’ at the concert hall across the street.
This is the first time that LA’s two leading art institutions have collaborated since the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry in 2003.
What attracts attention is that at the center are Korean composer Isang Yun, installation artist Haegyu Yang, and Korean-Canadian conductor Eul Lee.
Hye-Gyu Yang, who works between Germany and Korea, is a Korean installation artist who is receiving the most attention in the global art world. In 2017, he became the first Korean to win Germany’s prestigious art prize, the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, and held solo exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in the UK (2024), the National Gallery of Denmark (2022), and the Center Pompidou in France (2016).
Artist Yang has previously presented works exploring composer Isang Yoon.
He said, “About 10 years ago, I was shocked to realize that I knew the composer’s name but did not know the music. I started (working) out of curiosity, ‘What kind of music did this person make?'”
For this collaboration, we first chose ‘Staggering Rendezvous According to Yoon’, created in 2024. This is a work in which Isang Yoon’s ‘Double Concerto’ plays briefly and two lights move back and forth between colored blinds, creating various shapes.
As a companion piece to this, ‘Sol LeWitt Flip’, created in 2015, was also presented.
Artist Yang emphasized the word ‘double’ and explained, “I looked for works that had something in common, but were also disparate,” and added, “‘Sol LeWitt Flip’ was originally a work that met at one point, but this time, for the first time, I displayed it so that it met at two points.”
The ‘double’ emphasized by the author is completed at the concert hall across the street.
The LA Philharmonic New Music Group will perform ‘Double Concerto’ by composer Isang Yoon. Korean-Canadian conductor Eul Lee will lead the performance, and oboist Ryan Robert and harpist Emmanuel Seisson will perform together.
Audiences first encounter the ‘Double Concerto’ visually along with the installation art at the exhibition hall, and then move to the concert hall, a 5-minute walk away, to hear it in person.
Lee Eul, who was in charge of conducting this collaborative performance, looked back on the collaboration process and explained, “When the ‘Double Concerto’ chord first starts, there is a part where there is a ‘clack’ sound. I imagined a bright light shining brightly, but when I saw the exhibition, the light was shining brightly. It was similar to what I had imagined.”
Artist Hae-gyu Yang’s touch was added even before the performance.
Artist Yang explained, “We prepared ambient sounds such as lights, rain, and wind to prepare the mind for the 5-minute performance.”
This project was carried out with the support of the LA Museum of Modern Art Global Committee, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Arts Management Support Center, and the Korea Focus Support Program, and was sponsored by Linda and David Shaheen and the Hillenburg family. All exhibitions and performances are free of charge.
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