2023-07-10 02:06:32
[김영훈의 참의사 찐병원]hospital art space
Enter 2023.07.10 11:06 Hits 271 Enter 2023.07.10 11:06 Hits 271 ‘Healing Hand’, a work by Kang Hee-deok, located in Korea University Anam Hospital
If you go to a restaurant, you can sometimes see a notice on the wall with the effect of the main menu written in large letters. The Chueotang house explains why loach is good, and the gondre namulbap house explains the efficacy of gondre and how to eat it. I wonder how many people will actually read that description. A customer who comes to a chueotang house wants to eat chueotang, but it is like inviting him to eat chueotang because it is good for the body. Also, not many people eat it as it is written in the description. This is because people have eccentric characteristics and try to eat food in their own way. It’s out of the blue, but I wonder if there are many times when a nice masterpiece instead of an explanation can make you feel the atmosphere of the restaurant or the philosophy of the owner.
how regarding the hospital? The hospital building used to be daunting and quite desolate. However, since the 1990s, artworks have been installed. Large sculptures were erected at the entrance of the building, and sculptures and large oil paintings were placed in the lobby on the first floor.
One picture makes the corporate image much better than the slogan, ‘The first-rate ○○ group advancing into the 21st century,’ hanging in the lobby on the first floor of a conglomerate building. On the first floor of Korea University Anam Hospital, where I work, ‘Healing Hands’ and ‘Consoling Hands’, works by sculptor Kang Hee-deok (1948~) greet visitors. There may be people who pass by the stone sculpture, but there are also many people who are healed and comforted by the work that reminds them of the hands of a grateful doctor who performed difficult surgeries or of a warm father.
Among the elements that make up a hospital, art plays a significant role. Hospital corridors are usually painted all white, like normal buildings, and gray or ivory from the waist down. ‘Healthy common sense for cancer prevention’ is attached similarly to a restaurant, but few people read it.
How regarding hanging a painting or piece of art in its place? When you go to a foreign hotel, it is not difficult to see various paintings attached to the long hallway, regardless of the scale. Even if it is not a painting worth hundreds of millions of won or tens of millions of won, it is reminiscent of an art museum.
Hospitals of the future need such a museum concept. The so-called ‘arts therapy’ is defined as ‘a multifaceted treatment technique that integrates various fields of art, modern medicine, psychotherapeutic theory, and counseling theory’. It is a technique that helps the patient heal from the disease by directly participating in the act of creation. Even if you do not draw a picture or make a craft yourself, just appreciating the work is of great help. Some talk regarding cost. It is argued that it is better to buy better medical equipment with that money. However, if you use painting rental shops or auctions, it does not cost much. New paintings are changed every month, so even patients who have been hospitalized for a long time can enjoy various paintings such as landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and abstracts.
When asked, “How did it feel to be admitted to that hospital?”, the first answer people would naturally give would be, “I am glad that I am cured.” If, at the end of the many answers, there is also a comment saying, “It was comforting to be able to be with wonderful paintings or works of art,” it would have been the effect of transforming the hospital space into an art hall.
In addition to providing treatment, health promotion, and beautiful preparation for death, the hospital of the future should also serve as a healing art museum. Furthermore, small concerts and plays for children should be held, and a movie room and library should be set up. To this end, it should be institutionally guaranteed so that experts can operate with independent decision-making rights. The hospital of the future has a lot to do.
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