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- 08 Dec 2022
What Ha Chong-Hyun’s Painting Confirmed for Me
PAJU, South Korea ? I recently traveled to Seoul to work on two exhibitions, as well as meet with artists, curators, poets, publishers, and ..
Features
- 16 Nov 2022
Ancient Korean silk paintings get a mind-bending contemporary spin
The closer you look at Hun Kyu Kim's paintings, the more disquieting they become. At first glance, the South Korean artist's creations comb..
People
- 27 Oct 2022
THROUGH THE THINGS THAT PAINTING CANNOT DO
In Suhyung Song’s studio there were a range of paintings with diverse forms and themes, and so it did not look like they were painted by a s..
Features
- 26 Oct 2022
Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness
Korea’s Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the st..
People
- 24 Oct 2022
PAINTING-ANOTHER KIND OF NATURE
Jinyong Beom has mainly focuses on surrounding landscapes he has experienced himself. Beom’s work has been centered on this subject since he..
People
- 04 Oct 2022
I, We, and Now: On Bae Yoon Hwan’s Paintings
Artist Bae Yoon Hwan’s new painting Next Stop Is Where You Are (2021) consists of three canvases that depict different common subway scenes...
Features
- 30 Sep 2022
[Korean artists of Note] ‘A painting is a painting’: Hejum Ba refuses to define images
Following is the third in a six-part series highlighting the next generation of Korean artists active in the international art scene. ? Ed ..
Features
- 29 Sep 2022
[Korean Artists of Note] Lee Hee-joon ‘builds’ painting with layers of colors
Following is the second in a six-part series highlighting the next generation of Korean artists active in the international art scene. ? Ed ..
People
- 30 Aug 2022
Daesung Park, Writing Paintings: The Invention of Strokes in the Machine Age
The artistic trajectory of Park Daesung the painter can be crossed and dotted by his artistic pursuit and the place of his practice. His ear..
People
- 25 Aug 2022
Vibrating Colors, The Paintings of Yoo Youngkuk
He is an artist without myth, far from the troubled stereotypes of artists that we usually imagine, such as a schizophrenic genius or an ecc..
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- 20 July 2022
Korea’s forgotten polychrome paintings rediscovered
A 3-meter-long folding screen shows a variety of books, fruits and other assorted items on bookshelves. The bright colors -- mainly blue, gr..
People
- 05 July 2022
[Herald Interview] Bang Ui-geol brings ink wash paintings to immersive digital museum
An ink wash painting shows rain coming down through a mostly black-and-white forest. Though a still image, 84-year-old painter Bang Ui-geol’..
People
- 21 June 2022
39 Abstract Painters - (3) Painting Expands in Time and Space
Amid the influence of postmodernism since the mid-20th century, existing distinctions of artistic genre and medium have become increasingly ..
Features
- 31 Mar 2022
Exhibition shows Korean paintings aren't all black and white
During the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), there was a saying that went, “Pyongyang in the North and Jinju in the South,” which referred to the ..
People
- 09 Dec 2021
Parc Rahm, To Touch or To Calculate or To Do Both: PARC Rahm’s Painting-performance Complex
1. When Worldly Manifolds Meet Human Perception Aportrait (2017) begins with measuring. PARC Rahm becomes a matter that can be converted in..
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People
- 03 Dec 2021
I obey time': The artist who spent three decades on a single painting
It was the late 1980s when South Korean artist Myonghi Kang began work on her painting "Le temps des camelias" ("The Time of ..
Features
- 03 Dec 2021
Lee Bul's rare paintings, silk collage works unveiled in Seoul
While Lee Bul is globally known for her installations best represented by the Cyborg and Anagram series, the mixed media paintings that she ..
Features
- 14 Sep 2021
Park Dae-sung, master of ink-and-wash paintings with creative modern touch
One day in March, a child, seeing a 20-meter-long calligraphy work on display at ground level at Solgeo Art Museum in Gyeongju City, North G..
People
- 12 Aug 2021
Media artist's own DNA breathes new life into digital landscape paintings
What exactly did media artist Lee Lee Nam need in order to give life to a 6.8-meter-high digital waterfall roaring down a wall of the Savina..
Features
- 12 July 2021
Invisible, ever-changing life force 'qi' captured in Lee Kang-so's paintings
To the 78-year-old contemporary master Lee Kang-so, the world is not immutable and self-explanatory, but is rather ever-shifting and pulsati..
People
- 09 July 2021
Min Joung-Ki, Healing Minds with Paintings of Mudeung Mountain
Established in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale has risen to become one of the premier events in international contemporary art, continuously pres..
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- 18 June 2021
The Joo two hang their paintings and webtoons side by side
Like father, like son ? kind of. The “Homin and Jaehwan” exhibition kicked off on May 18 at the main branch of the Seoul Museum of Art (..
People
- 14 June 2021
Layered Time
Artist Yoo Geun-Taek has used Korean hanji paper to summon mundane objects and experimented with the properties of paper, brush, and ink as ..
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People
- 25 May 2021
Jeong Deokhyeon : True Heart, Evolving to Be More Accurate
To Deokhyeon Jeong, painting is a space where truth resides. He worries that a true heart might not stay. He remains cautious, because he is..
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#MMCAresidencygoyang
People
- 25 May 2021
Juri Lee: Point of View, Value, Cold Storage
. Juri Lee “produces” paintings. The artist nails her “point of view” vertically on the historical verb “to paint” and its discourse. Here, ..
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#MMCAresidencygoyang
Features
- 07 May 2021
Meta-Painting, the Never Ending ‘Flat Surface Mission’ : Newcomers 77, The Young Powers of Korean Art Selected by Nine Art Experts
Young Korean painters struggle with the question of ‘painting’. Their paintings talk of paintings itself and they search for a methodology t..
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People
- 23 April 2021
Sanghoon Ahn : Painting within the World
When I encountered Sanghoon Ahn’s paintings for this first time last July at the MMCA Residency Goyang, they seemed at first to fall into th..
People
- 23 April 2021
A World Without a Vanishing Point: 《Times》 by Rahm Parc
Q.E.D., a formal Latin notation used at the end of a proof, is short for quod erat demonstrandum, meaning “which was to be demonstrated.” Th..
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#MMCAresidencyGoyang
People
- 31 Mar 2021
Kim Tschang-yeul : From 'Emptiness' to 'Nothingness', From 'Nothingness' to 'Return'
On January 5, Kim Tschang-yeul, the “Painter of Waterdrops” passed away. He was a Korean virtuoso, who had achieved artistic and societal re..
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#monochromepainting
People
- 23 Mar 2021
Jiyoung Keem : Light as Bluish Reflection, Light as Red Temporality
This text intends to denominate Jiyoung Keem as an artist who deals with light. To elaborate, Keem’s subject of attention and tenacious expl..
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#reflectedlight
#MMCAresidencyGoyang
People
- 17 Mar 2021
Seeun Kim: Living with the Absence of First Nature, Living among Second Nature
The fact that something is being painted implies that the subject being painted is receiving attention, and the fact that something is recei..
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#MMCAresidencygoyang
People
- 17 Mar 2021
BoMin Kim : The Circumventing Paintings
BoMin Kim paints the landscape of the “hic et nunc.” Her paintings “place emphasis on the urban environment as a landscape while mobilizing ..
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#MMCAresidencygoyang
Features
- 05 Nov 2020
Modern artist Byun Shi-ji offers comfort revealing severe loneliness in paintings
You may feel poignant loneliness in the paintings. The man who walks with a cane facing strong wind or a typhoon may look so lonely that it ..
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- 14 Oct 2020
GaHee Park’s Cool Nudes
GaHee Park first gained attention in 2016 for paintings that inextricably linked sexual desire and humiliation. Works such as “Ass on Face” ..
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#painting
#nude
Features
- 14 Oct 2020
Dansaekhwa artist Ha Chong-hyun presents 'Conjunction' in London
Renowned dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) artist Ha Chong-hyun opened a solo exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery London, Tuesday. Th..
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#dansaekwha
#monochromepainting
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People
- 13 Oct 2020
GaHee Park: Building Fluid Worlds
GaHee Park's still life paintings and drawings portray intimate scenes from everyday life. Subjects, either solo or in embrace, are depicted..
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#painting
#nude
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- 28 Sep 2020
Lee Jin-ju broadens boundaries of Oriental painting with 'The Unperceived'
Artist Lee Jin-ju's works begin from a basic question of whether what people see is real or not, as each remembers the same thing differentl..
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#arariomuseum
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- 21 Sep 2020
Lee Seung Jio and The Origin of Nucleus
In addition to boasting one of the most effective COVID-19 responses on the planet, South Korea is also currently home to one of the most fa..
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People
- 16 Sep 2020
JUN Hyerim : Question to Painting
In order to approach JUN Hyerim’s work, we need to reconsider a lot of customary thinking around painting. Her work fumbles many meanings em..
#Jun_Hyerim
#IncheonArtPlatform
#painting
People
- 14 Sep 2020
JEON Byungkoo : Small Window
If we consider JEON Byungkoo’s painting as a sort of a window, they are rarely as big as we may cross into the other side of the frame. The ..
#Jeon_Byungkoo
#IncheonArtPlatform
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Features
- 28 May 2020
Historic Moments from Masters of Korean Modern and Contemporary art
South Korea’s galleries have been holding one exhibition after another featuring the works of Korean art’s most representative masters. To c..
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#dansaekhwa
#painting
Features
- 22 April 2020
Korean monotone painting is about process
"Empty Fullness: Materiality and Spirituality in Contemporary Korean Art," an exhibition at Park Ryu Sook Gallery in Itaewon, Seou..
#Dansaekhwa
#monochromepainting
People
- 08 April 2020
Kim Hong-joo pursues principle of painting
Veteran artist Kim Hong-joo continues to renew his enthusiasm over art and pursues the essence of painting displayed through previously unse..
#kimhongjoo
#painting
#thegreatcollection
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- 06 Feb 2020
Korea's modern history seen through figure paintings
Today, the definition of art is almost infinite. Various forms of art such as abstract painting, conceptual art and performance showcase the..
#artmarket
People
- 13 June 2019
The South Korean artist painting a Yorkshire chapel with prismatic light
Five hundred acres of voluptuous hillsides are peppered with wandering eyes, concrete lumps and hollowed Hepworths, all cohabiting the lands..
#Kimsooja
People
- 07 May 2019
Yun Hyong-keun in Venice: The Artist Behind the Paintings
'He was not a "political" kind of person. He just wanted to be honest and straight. But it was not easy in Korea to live like that..
#venice_biennale
#Yun_hyong_keun
People
- 06 Dec 2017
Korea Artist Prize 2017
The Korea Artist Prize is the representative annual award for the most promising Korean artists. Established in 2012, the award is co-organi..
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#MMCA
#SBS
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#Sunny_Kim
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- 31 Aug 2017
Minjung Art in the Market: Will Minjung art emerge as the post-monochrome painting?
Minjung art gains attention from the art world in Korea The Korean genre of realism dominated the Korean art world during the 1980s After..
#Minjung_Art
#1980s
#Shin_Hak_Chul
#Son_Chang-seop
#Kim_Jeong-heon Min
#Jeong-ki
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People
- 16 Aug 2017
"Lee Seung-Jio": The Aesthetics of Pipes
Nucleus, a solo exhibition for Lee Seung-Jio, known as “the pipe artist” in Korean art world, is held in Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong from ..
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#Pipe
#Nucleus
#Dansaekhwa
#Korean_abstract_art
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#Hong_Kong
Features
- 26 July 2017
"Ha Chong-Hyun" Between Object and Image
All kinds of historical rediscoveries accompany the insatiable global creep of contemporary art as capital flows and narratives are written ..
#Ha_Chong-Hyun
#Dansaekhwa
#Painting
#Rediscovery
#Conjunction
#London
#Almine_Rech
Features
- 27 Dec 2016
Kim Yong-Ik Solo Exhibition
Energetic efforts are under way in the Korean art world to illuminate the work of veteran artist Kim Yong-ik. Following a major retrospectiv..
#Artist
#Painting
#Polka-dot
#Modern
Features
- 22 April 2016
Han Mook & Lee Ungno Two Korean modernist painters in Paris
Various Korean art exhibitions open in France this year in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korean and..
#Artist
#Painting
#Modern
#France
People
- 02 July 2015
Yun Suknam Artist
“I wanted to draw my mother, whom I love so much. I intended to focus on my mother’s life and thought that it would lead me to embody the li..
#Aritst
#Feminist_Art
#Painting
#Sculpture
#Installation
People
- 25 July 2012
Hong Kyung-taek, Artist
In the work of Hong Kyung-taek, we find all sorts of oppositions: glorious color and monochrome, pattems (abstract) and profane, classical o..
#Artist
#Painting
#Library
#Music
People
- 19 July 2012
Kim Hong-joo
Kim Hong Joo's paintings bloom on canvases like flowers. When asked why he paints flowers, his answer is simple: "because flowers,"..
#Artist
#Painting
#Flower
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