韩国·太空漫步

2021 11月18日，汉堡艺术家海克·穆特（Heike Mutter）和乌尔里希·根特（Ulrich Genth）创作的大型雕塑《太空漫步》（SpaceWalk）在韩国浦项市正式启用。浦项是该国的工业兼港口城市，位于韩国的东南海岸，这座城市拥有大约50万居民，从此地乘坐火车去首都首尔市约需3小时，同时浦项还是世界最大的钢铁生产商之一【浦项钢铁公司（POSCO）】的运营基地。SpaceWalk是一个永久性的艺术装置，是浦项钢铁公司赠送给浦项市的礼物，它是韩国有史以来最大的当代公共雕塑。

On the 18th of November 2021, the large sculpture SpaceWalk by the Hamburg artist duo Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth, located in the South Korean city of Pohang, was officially opened. Pohang is an industrial city or harbour city on the nation’s southeast coast. The city has around 500,000 inhabitants, and is around three hours by train from Seoul, the capital city. Pohang is the business headquarters of the Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), one of the world’s biggest producers of steel. SpaceWalk is a permanent artwork installation, and is a gift from POSCO to the city of Pohang. It is the largest contemporary public sculpture ever to be created in Korea.

SpaceWalk被设计为一个壮观的大型可穿越雕塑，用于这座海滨城市北部Hwanho公园树木繁茂的山丘上，这座雕塑占地面积总计60 x 57米，可提供夜间照明并向公众免费开放。材料上由镀锌钢和不锈钢制成的可移动型轨道，固定在混凝土基础上，长约333米。这座闪闪发光的银色雕塑一次最多可容纳250人，楼梯蜿蜒穿过风景，形成无数壮观的曲线，游客通过中央通道楼梯进入雕塑后，可以在两个方向中选择一个向上攀爬，在其中一个方向，有条小路可以通向一条平缓的攀爬通道，使其在山顶上方20米处形成了一条宽阔的曲线，站在这里，游客能够看到延吉尔湾和浦项市的壮丽景色。如果你选择往另一个方向走，你会发现一条向上更为陡峭的路，游客穿过一条螺旋线，从远处看，螺旋线似乎是精确的圆形，这两条行走轨迹都可以到达雕塑中央环形结构。

SpaceWalk was designed as a spectacular large-scale traversable sculpture for the wooded hills of Hwanho Park in the northerly part of this coastal city. The sculpture takes up a total of 60 x 57 metres in terms of ground area. Illuminated at night, the artwork is open to the public, free of charge. It was created as a traversable track made from galvanised steel and stainless steel, 333 metres in length and resting on a concrete foundation. This gleaming silver sculpture can support a maximum of 250 persons at any one time. A stair winds through the landscape in numerous spectacular curves. Visitors enter the sculpture via a central access stair. After this, they can choose to climb the track in one of two directions. On one side, the path leads through a gently climbing passage.This culminates in a broad curve at 20 metres above the hilltop. From here, visitors have a magnificent view of Yeongil Bay and of the city of Pohang. If one chooses to go in the other direction, one finds a path that leads upwards somewhat more steeply. The visitors traverse a helix that, from a distance, appears to be precisely circular. Both of these walking tracks through the sculpture feed into a central loop structure that is not accessible.

这座充满想象力的雕塑，以其独特的曲线和循环造型，让人最初会联想到过山车，然而，这幅模拟艺术品实际意图是通过展现速度和加速度之间的微妙博弈，讽刺人们对快速机器的传统期望。

The visionary sculpture SpaceWalk, with its characteristic curves and loops, initially puts one in mind of a rollercoaster. By ironically undermining conventional expectations of fast machines, however, this imposing artwork plays a subtle game with the concepts of speed and acceleration.

另一方面，SpaceWalk雕塑看起来像是一幅在天空中脱颖而出的美丽图画——尤其是在夜晚，因为扶手和走道上安装了白色LED灯（条形灯和模块化灯）以提供集成照明，这很像一张长时间曝光的照片，火炬的光被用作绘图工具用来描绘云层和天体。从远处看，它能不断提供新的视角，然而，如果一个人偏离了自己的有利位置，那么这幅画就会消失，就像拼图一样。SpaceWalk还参考了浦项的当地神话和韩国著名的仰望天空的传统，这件艺术品的理想功能是作为一个天文台，作为观察周围地区、夜空以及日出和日落的理想场所。

The SpaceWalk sculpture, on the other hand, looks like a kind of drawing standing out against the sky – especially at night, because of the white LED lights (strips and modular) that are installed in the handrails and walkway to provide integrated illumination. It is rather like a long-exposure photograph in which the light of a torch is used as a drawing implement, to depict cloud formations and heavenly bodies. Seen from a distance, it constantly offers new perspectives. If one departs from one’s vantage point, however, then the drawing dissolves, like a puzzle picture. SpaceWalk also references the local mythology of the Pohang region, and the prominent Korean tradition of watching the skies. The artwork functions ideally as an observatory, as the perfect place from which to observe the surrounding area, the night sky, and the sunrise and sunset.

“太空漫步”这一名称取自外太空任务中的专业术语。它描述的是在失重的外太空中离开太空飞行器的行为。更确切地说，太空漫步可以理解为“在太空中行走”。

The title SpaceWalk is taken from the terminology of outer space missions. It describes the act of exiting the space vehicle in the weightlessness of outer space. More literally, SpaceWalk can be understood to mean “a walk through space”.

自2003年以来，艺术家Heike Mutter和Ulrich Genth一直在为国内外的公共空间和展览空间共同创作艺术项目，他们的作品始终具有地理环境渊源，以别具一格的方式反映了公共领域不断变化的性质。自2007年以来，这对艺术家一直住在汉堡，Heike Mutter是汉堡大学（Hochschule für bildende Künste）的教授。太空行走是两位艺术家在亚洲大陆创作的第一件大型艺术品。

Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth have been creating artistic projects together for public spaces and exhibition spaces at home and abroad since 2003. Their artworks always relate to the location and context, reflecting in diverse ways upon the shifting natures of the public sphere. Since 2007, the artist duo have been living in Hamburg, where Heike Mutter is a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK). SpaceWalk is the first large-scale artwork by the artist duo on the Asiatic continent.

设计：Heike Mutter/Ulrich Genth（德国汉堡）

网址：http://www.phaenomedia.org/

项目地点：韩国浦项市

面积：3420 m²

竣工年份：2021年

艺术策划/组织：The Ton（韩国首尔）

建筑师：三维参数规划、几何、数字规划专家：设计制作（Arnold Walz，Philipp Rumpf）（德国斯图加特）

生产规划、当地建筑师和顾问：9DIRECTORS & COMPANY+9ARCHITECTUS（韩国首尔）

结构工程：str.ucture GmbH（德国斯图加特）

The Naeun Structural Engineering co.ltd.（韩国首尔）

施工、生产管理、装配：PPOSCO E&C（韩国浦项）

资金来源：浦项钢铁公司

新闻稿：Nicole Büsing和Heiko Klaas（德国汉堡）

照片署名：Mutter/Genth

Design: Heike Mutter / Ulrich Genth (Hamburg, Germany)

Website：http://www.phaenomedia.org/

Completion Year: 2021

Gross Built Area (m2/ ft2): 3420 m²

Art planning / organization: The Ton (Seoul, South Korea)

Architects:

3-D parametric planning, geometry, digital planning specialist:

Designtoproduction (Arnold Walz, Philipp Rumpf) (Stuttgart, Germany)

Production planning, local architect and consultant:

9DIRECTORS & COMPANY+9ARCHITECTUS (Seoul, South Korea)

Structural engineering:

str.ucture GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany)

The Naeun Structural Engineering co.ltd. (Seoul ,South Korea)

Construction, production management, assembly:

PPOSCO E&C (Pohang, South Korea)

Funding: The work of art was donated to the city of Pohang by POSCO.

Press release: Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas (Hamburg, Germany)

Photo: Mutter/Genth