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PKM Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to Yun Hyong-keun1928-2007, the world-renowned artist who spearheaded the Dansaekhwa movement. The exhibition, on view from 23 April through 20 June 2020, is the first held in Korea since the successful retrospective in 2018 at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, which later traveled to Palazzo Fortuny, Venice in 2019.

The exhibition showcases twenty or more works by Yun Hyong-keun, including his large-size paintings and hanji works produced from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, which are bolder and more structural in their forms compared to Yun’s early oeuvre characterized by the permeating effect of ink painting and the flanking two columns. Such paintings are significant in that they maintain the inherent essence of Yun’s art while showing his development in style. After his encounter with Donald Judd1928-1994—the master of Minimal Art—in 1991, Yun attained an unwavering confidence in his artistic practice. Created with the color of traditional black ink and Yun’s intuitive sense of proportion, the distinctive paintings from this period show originality as they succeed Chusa’s aesthetics that Yun has continuously admired and embrace the notion of Western minimalism about simplicity in material and form.

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