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Period: Jul.
14 ~ Aug. 29, 1999
Place: 2nd and 3rd floors, Artsonje Center, Seoul
We have had rough and difficult time in the 20th century. Until now, our
traditional view of the world have been conflicting and developping with
the Western one. In the field of fine art, the interchange with Western
painting brought to the ceaseless trouble and discord between the tradition
and the new culture. The issues on 'modernity' and 'Korean character'
in our art have been constantly raised questions of the Korean cultural
identity from the first half of 20th century. But it cannot be fixed up
the conceptual substance as the cultural identity, because the culture
is a living process including change.
Artsonje Center shows this exhibition , for talking
about the identity of Korean contemporary art, which is the active process
of cultural self-awareness, rediscovering itself and going toward the
future through the encounter with the other.
It is said that the Oriental traditional art is not the picture, but the
expression of the view of the world. In the same way, the Western landscape
since the Renaissance, which was fixed as a genre in seventeenth century,
is also together with the departure of Western humanism and rationalism.
But
is not only the landscape exhibition. We
hope to see, think, hug and enjoy our contemporary art without distinction
among genres of forms. We'll start from the works of artists not analyzing
the works through a theory or comparison. Most of all, we'll enjoy the
encounter with the works of this exhibition. In addition to that, if
we can know the world's views of artists, and construct a certain figure
of our contemporary art starting mutual connecting in having no correlation
with one another.
They are participated in this exhibition, who are Kyung-Koo Kang, Ki-Yoon
Kwon, Tristan Kim, Myung-Sook Kim, Beom Kim, Jang-Sup Kim, Joo-Hyun
Kim, Chun-Il Kim, Ho-Deuk Kim, Jung-Gi Min, Yi-So Bahc, Geun-Tack You,
Seung-Ho Yoo, In-Hyeon Lee, Bo-Young Jeong, Zu-Young Chung, Sun-Myung
Choi, Gene-Uk Choi, and Myung-Sup Hong. We expect that their artists
accomplish our existence, the time and history flowing as the river,
the wind of freedom coming and going as its wishes in the empty space,
and some light looking out the future in each works, and these will
be completed again into our each works in a certain endless extending
space of our hearts.
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