ICON _Yong Ju

Cathedral has been an ICON. Before Renaissance, it had only reliegious meaning. Gothic Cathedral was a representation of some sacred personage as christ or a saint or angel. After Renaissance, this meaning changed to cultural way. It bacame the object of great attention and devotion; an idol -like a pop icon. The meaning of Cathedral in these days is still close to the latter. However, this iconic aspect is sometimes understood as ignorance of the context. New Cathedral could show how these two different qualities (icon-context) meet and react each others.


Noksan Church in Busan, Korea
Cronos by Guillermo Del Toro, 1993
Videodrome by David Cronenberg, 1983