“2023 Kumho Young Artist 2” Poster ©Kumho Museum of ArtFrom May 5 to June 11, Kumho Museum of Art will host “2023 Kumho Young Artist 2”. This exhibition of selected artists from the Kumho Young Artist Program follows “2023 Kumho Young Artist 1,” which ended on April 23 and featured three artists, Wonjin Kim, Youngho Jung, and Jae Cho.
The exhibition features three artists, Nosik Lim, Heejoon Lee (b.1988), and Seungeui Hyun (b.1991) and is organized as a group exhibition, with each floor of the museum, from the first to the third, dedicated to a single artist.
On the first floor, Seungeui Hyun’s exhibition The Ordinary ■’s Ordinary Vacation will be held. The artist has been dealing with the relationship between humans and nature, the world dictated by capital, and the dark side of tourism capital, and cynically unravels the various discourses inherent in space. In this exhibition, the fictional character ‘Mr. ■”s vacation on Jeju Island is composed of symbolic images to show various narratives. Through inky black paintings, the artist densely depicts the logic of capital and ecological, environmental, and social issues that operate beyond the idealized landscape.
On the second floor, Heejoon Lee’s exhibition Scaffolding will be held. Capturing urban landscapes on canvas, Lee translates the elements of proportion, balance, and color found in his exploration of architectural spaces into his abstract paintings. The exhibition features abstract paintings, sculptures, and installations that incorporate the concept of “scaffolding,” a temporary structure erected during the construction process.
The third and final floor is dedicated to the exhibition Deep Line by Nosik Lim. This exhibition shows how we perceive objects centered on a ‘line’. The artist explores the physical, psychological, and reproductive distancing that occurs in the process of translating images encountered in everyday life into paintings in various ways. In the process of emptying and discarding the collected images, the thin lines remain in an extremely reduced, suggesting the entire landscape and objects.
