Besides clothing, what kind of artworks are placed in the RECTO flagship?
When reading store descriptions, several names of people who do not make clothing appear, which makes one wonder what you will actually see when you visit.
Works by artists from other fields are placed together, ranging from ceramics at the entrance to photographs and drawings on the walls, lacquered furniture, and molds hung in the windows.
It begins even before you open the door. What hangs in the store's outside window is not a finished work, but the molds used when making art furniture[1]. In a sense, the objects used in the making process are seen first. Passing through the door and stepping inside, ceramic works by artist Noh Gi-ppeum are placed at the entrance, and the store itself takes a 'modern gallery' as its concept[2].
Coming inside, artworks are not only on the walls. Jeong Baek-seok worked together with furniture artisan Kang Woo-rim while creating this space[3], and the wooden furniture and objects finished with lacquer came from artist Kang Woo-rim's hands. The colors were matched as one[4]. Turning your eyes to the wall, photographs by photographer Kim Jae-hoon hang side by side with collection pieces[5]. Illustrator Kwon Cheol-hwa left drawings, and VMD Hwang Yi-na took charge of flower decorations throughout the space[6].
This space was also used in the method of presenting new products. RECTO unveiled its newly launched sunglasses here in the form of a black-and-white photography exhibition with photographer Mok Jung-wook[7]. hmmm, the fact that even new products were introduced through an exhibition in a place where ceramics, photographs, and furniture are set out also means that clothing and artworks are not placed in separate compartments here.
Whether the exhibited artworks can be purchased, and how often they change, has not yet been confirmed.