"The Layers of Contemplation, From Darkness to Light" is Kwak Soo-Young's latest solo exhibition. Born in 1954, the artist played an important role laying the foundation for Korean contemporary art in France. Through stacking, scraping, and exposing the paint on the canvas, he accumulates layers of memory, time, and consciousness. His ultimate goal is to reveal the waves and energies of emotions, the ambience of the unstable mind.
The Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art presents "Park Kwang-jin: The Waiting Season" showcasing autumn and winter landscape paintings. The museum invites visitors to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Jeju in a cold season depicted with warm colours. There is something cosy and timeless in Park's paintings that aims to make the viewer feel at home on the small island off the coast of Mainland Korea.
Heo Yoon-Hee's "Full Beam" is the winning exhibition from the 25th Lee In-sung Art Award . She uses charcoal made from burnt wood to explore the origins of human existence, repetition and the cycles of nature. Through a series of diary-style works, she captures daily life is something akin to a performative practice that does not separate art from life. For her, repetition is a journey between extremes - the fleeting and the eternal, the birth and death of nature every year, creation and extinction, filling and emptying.
"Infinite metamorphoses" is a large-scale retrospective exhibition by Shin Sang-Ho, a pioneer of Korean contemporary ceramics with over 60 years of practice organised by the Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art. Shin's art tries to intersect ceramics with other art forms such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, installation thereby creating innovative forms such as "architectural ceramics". Viewers will be able to see over 90 ceramic art pieces and about 70 items of archaive material on display.