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Exhibitions
“Nostalgics on realities” on View Through March 9, 2024, at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents the group exhibition “Nostalgics on realities” through March 9. Curated by Kim Sung woo, “Nostalgics on realities” presents new and recent work by six contemporary artists: Jesse Chun, Eugene Jung, Yongju Kwon, Minsun, Hwayeon Nam and Yooyun Yang. Following the three-person show “Myths of Our Time” in 2023, this group exhibition is the second at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul to focus solely on Korean artists, highlighting their diverse contributions to Korea’s thriving contemporary art scene.
2024.01.31
Exhibitions
《Frankie》, 2021.07.22 – 2021.08.14, N/A
The Story of Frankie — Frankie was a friend that only I could see. My friends did not believe in Frankie’s existence and often passed straight through him. Frankie was afraid of my friends.
2021.07.22
Articles
[Critique] Motions for the Language of Touch
I hesitated for quite a long time before writing about Sujin Moon’s solo exhibition. I was enraptured by the delicate installation and the placement of sculptures and objects that follow a path of emotion at the exhibition space, but I am still hesitant writing about it.
2022
Articles
[Critique] Traversing, dance and conversation
‘One night with someone’s t-shirt in my bed’ (2006-2007), photo series by Youngjoo Cho, a record of her own expressionless face and stiff body right from the bed, has as interesting content as the imagination that the title enables.
2018
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《2020》, 2020.09.30 – 2020.11.28, PKM Gallery
PKM Gallery is proud to present 《2020》, a solo exhibition by Koo Jeong A, an internationally acknowledged artist who is known for her keen observation and wide spectrum of artistic practice. The exhibition, on view from 30 September through 28 November, unveils a selection of 30 latest works
2020.09.29
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[Critique] Korea Artist Prize 2017 – Critique 2
Song Sanghee’s works are characterized by the coexistence of contrasting images and elements. On the one hand, Song identifies and comforts oppressed or weakened people, especially women and children,
2017
Articles
Artist Hong Seung-Hye’s Works as ‘Organic Geometry’
Artist Hong Seung-Hye (b. 1959) has experimented with a variety of media, including painting, collage, installation, sculpture, graphics, and animation, to expand her artistic practice. In particular, Hong combines, disassembles, and accumulates rectangular pixels, a basic unit of digital imagery, to create proliferating forms that are organic and dynamic. These images go through a number of formal transformations as they move out of the computer monitor into everyday spaces, expanding to flat and sculptural forms, animation, design, and architecture.
As such, with a sustained interest in abstraction-as-spatial construction, Hong explores the relationship between the work’s inner structure and the architectural space where it manifests a reality where geometric abstraction comes to life.
2024.08.06
