SEOUL - PARIS - SEOUL. KOREAN FIGURATIONS
SEOUL - PARIS - SEOUL. KOREAN FIGURATIONS
From 16 October to 7 November 2015 at the Mairie of the 8th arrondissement.
The exhibition of the Cernuschi Museum is doubled with exhibition at the VIII City Halle district of Paris.
While the museum presents artists who have become mostly great abstract painters, the mayor of VIIIe Borough, in partnership with the Cernuschi Museum and the Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum, offers the public figurative works of Korean artists confirmed or promising.
Their choice of techniques, traditional or Western, their styles and experiments testify to their complex relationship to figuration. They also reveal their different sensibilities and their contrasting relationship to their original culture.
These artists use both Western mediums and traditional oriental techniques. If these are used in Korean ancestral subjects, such as contemporary or surrealist themes, some paintings on canvas are imbued with a deeply Asian aesthetic.
Featured artists: Seke Yi Myung Rim, Yu Yeung Tchine, Yoo Hye-Sook, Chang-Dawn Moon, Hwang Hosup, Jeung Hyun, Kwak Soo-Young, Sun-Cheol Kwun, Min Jung-Yeon
