Exhibition poster image of “Hong Soun: Over there” at CR Collective, Seoul. (December 12, 2023 – January 27, 2024). Courtesy of the institution.Hong Soun’s solo exhibition, Over there, unfolds a creative art world using various media and genres, focusing on the artist’s representative series, Sidescape. Sidescape is a series that portrays experiential approaches to inexplicable natural phenomena or societal issues, inspired by the autobiography Physics and Beyond by Werner Heisenberg, a German theoretical physicist who established quantum mechanics. This series disrupts the composition and structure of traditional landscape paintings, offering a new perspective. The exhibition includes paintings that depict only the edges of photographs published in daily newspapers worldwide. In doing so, the work deconstructs subject-centered ideologies and reproduces them through speculative landscapes.
Born in Seoul in 1959, artist Hong Soun graduated from the College of Education in Art at Busan University and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He debuted in the art scene by participating in the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Indépendant Exhibition in 1981. Since then, he has held numerous solo exhibitions, including those at Savina Museum (Seoul, 2012), Space Can (Seoul, 2009), and Ssamzie Space (Seoul, 2009).
