Peter Buggenhout Belgium, b. 1963

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Emerging as one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, Peter Buggenhout (b. 1963, Dendermonde, Belgium) creates works of art that touch upon the paradoxes of meaning. As on par with the ideas of Constructivism in the 1910s, Buggenhout's sculptures are seemingly devoid of any symbolism. Yet, his sculptures stand alone, carrying meaning in its own entity rather than its amalgamation of materials. Constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing its body, Buggenhout perpetually shapes the identity of these monumental structures.

 

Buggenhout's sculptures dwell between paradoxes—of representation and abstraction, of singularity and unity, of immortality and extinction. He has created a new language for these bodies of works. The series do not represent things but present ideologies. Yet, the irony in its existence is in the inevitability of its interpretation. Although the bodies of work themselves resemble nothing, through his work series, they begin to resemble those that have been created before. In this way, their identities are indefinitely interchangeable with one another. No work can be easily distinguished, for it is difficult to recall the exact form and structure of each sculpture. Rather, they are constructed as a sequence of analogies (reference Sofie Van Loo's 'Analogies' in Sincerely, a Friend), a parallel presentation of the incomprehensible processes that surround and define us and that embody both the methodical and the arbitrary. Its irony lies within its ability to be solely its own entity, yet also becoming a part of a collective. Buggenhout's works exist without being instructed, for his works are something remembered—but lost.

 

Born in 1963, Buggenhout graduated from Sint-Lucas with a degree in Installation Art. Transitioning from painting to sculpture in 1989, Buggenhout's main objective was to defy the symbolic representation that he felt was inherent to painting. Peter Buggenhout's work has been exhibited and acquired by numerous institutions worldwide: Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA/PS1 (New York), Palais De Tokyo (Paris), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), La Maison Rouge - Foundation Antoine De Galbert (Paris), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), MONA (Hobart-Tasmania), Gladstone Gallery (New York), David Roberts Art Foundation (London), Neues Museum Nurnberg (Nurnberg), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), De Pont Museum (Tilburg), Saatchi Gallery (London), M Museum (Louvain), Marta Herford (Herford), MAM (Rio de Janeiro), MNMN (Monaco), Herzliya Biennial (Tel Aviv), Taipei Biennial (Taipei), Kunstverein Hannover (Hannover), MDD (Deurle), Art Unlimited (Basel), and more.

 

Buggenhout currently lives and works in Gent, Belgium.

 

๋จผ์ง€๋กœ ๋’ค๋ฎ์ธ ๋ฌด์ •ํ˜•์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„. Peter Buggenhout์˜ ์กฐ๊ฐ์—๋Š” ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ฃผ์˜์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์žฌํ˜„์ด ๊ฒฐ์—ฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ง€์นญํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋‹ฎ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฐœ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๋– ๋‚˜, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ‘๊ทธ ์–ด๋””์—”๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ฌด์—‡’์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ—ค์–ด์ง„ ์ง๋ฌผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ์‚ฐ์—…์ž์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜จ๊ฐ– ๋ฌผ์งˆ์„ ‘์žฌ๋ฃŒ’๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™€ ๋ถˆ์—ฐ์†์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘ํ•ฉ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์น˜๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์žฌ-๊ตฌ์ถ•์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์œผ๋กœ, ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์›๋ž˜์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋นš์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฐ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ, ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์–ธ์–ด์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋กœ ํŽธ์ž…๋œ๋‹ค.

 

Buggenhout์€ ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์„ธ์ƒ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์— ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜จ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ† ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ• ์ž์žฌ, ์ฃผ๋ณ€๋ถ€์— ์ž๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค, ์ง€๊ทนํ•œ ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ์ž”ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•„๋ธŒ์ ํŠธ(abject)๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ , ์›๋ž˜์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ์™€ ํ˜•์ƒ์„ ํ•ด์ฒดํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋จผ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์–ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐœ์ฒด๋กœ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๊ทœ์น™์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์–ป๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์žฌํ˜„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํšŒํ™”์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์  ์งˆ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋ ฅํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฐ ์„ž์—ฌ ์›๋ž˜์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ํ˜•์ƒ์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ๋ฌด์—‡๋„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜(ๅ)-์žฌํ˜„์˜ ๋ฏธํ•™ ์•„๋ž˜ Buggenhout์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ง€์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌดํ™”(็„กๅŒ–)์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค. ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌดํ™”์˜ ๊ณผ์ •๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, Buggenhout์˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ฌผํ™”(็‰ฉๅŒ–) ์ž์ฒด๋กœ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ž˜ ๋นš์–ด๋‚ธ ์นด์˜ค์Šค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ƒ์ง•์  ์žฌํ˜„ ์ฒด๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํ•ญ ์ž์ฒด์ด์ž, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ⋅๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ๊ฒฝํ•œ ์–ธ์–ด์ธ ์…ˆ์ด๋‹ค.

 

1963๋…„ ์ถœ์ƒํ•˜์—ฌ, Buggenhout๋Š” Sint-Lucas ์—์„œ ์„ค์น˜ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์„ ์ „๊ณตํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. 1989๋…„ ํšŒํ™”์—์„œ ์กฐ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ–ฅํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ํšŒํ™”์— ๋‚ด์žฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๋Š” ์ƒ์ง•์  ์žฌํ˜„์— ์ €ํ•ญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์˜€๋‹ค. Peter Buggenhout์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์—์„œ ์ „์‹œ๋˜๋ฉฐ ์†Œ์žฅ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA/PS1 (New York), Palais De Tokyo (Paris), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine De Galbert (Paris), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), MONA (Hobart –Tasmania), Gladstone Gallery (New York), David Roberts Art Foundation (London), Neues Museum Nurnberg (Nurnberg), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), De Pont Museum (Tilburg), Saatchi Gallery (London), M Museum (Louvain), Marta Herford (Herford), MAM (Rio de Janeiro), MNMN (Monaco), Herzliya Biennial (Tel Aviv), Taipei Biennial (Taipei), Kunstverein Hannover (Hannover), MDD (Deurle), Art Unlimited (Basel) ๋“ฑ์ง€์—์„œ ์ „์‹œ ๋ฐ ์†Œ์žฅ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 
Buggenhout์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฒจ๊ธฐ์— Gent์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
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