Busan Ilbo | Kim Hyun Jung Solo Exhibition “Her Naesoong”
A short exhibition notice from the Busan Ilbo culture section's "Scent of Culture" listings, announcing that Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung's solo exhibition "Her Naesoong?" would run from March 4 to 29, 2013 at Gallery Ain in Busan. It introduces her provocative Oriental paintings, which express women's inner selves using a technique that appears to "dress" the figures in hanbok made of hanji.
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Kwak Yoon-jung's "Brilliant Pink."
△Sim Jun-seop Exhibition "Circulation of Organ" — Through March 2, Open Space Bae. A "sound art" installation using steel pipes and a speaker system to play with sound and light. Built around the theme of organ circulation, repeated blackouts paired with sounds created by the artist merge with a PVC-pipe structure to produce a curious vibration. 051-724-5201.
△Gu Ju-hwan Photography Exhibition "Byeok-hae (Wall-Sea)" — Through March 2, Gallery Art Soop. Photographs of the calm, peaceful, multicolored sea, capturing the ocean through varied colors and textures. 051-731-0780.
△Kim Bong-jin Exhibition — Through March 3, Busan Museum of Art Yongdusan Art Exhibition Hall. 75 works by Kim Bong-jin, a first-generation senior painter of the Busan art scene, including "Gijang Yeonhwari Beach." Warm, nostalgic landscapes reflecting the artist's gentle heart, tracing decades of his unwavering creative journey. 051-740-4243.
△"The Ink Scent of Namdo" Exhibition — Through March 5, Tower Gallery. Works by the four masters of the Unlimsanbang lineage of Nam-jong painting — So-chi Heo Ryeon, Misan Heo Hyeong — and their students. 051-464-3939.
△Richard Pettibone & Roy Lichtenstein Exhibition — Through March 5, Lotte Gallery, Lotte Department Store Gwangbok branch. Works by 20th-century Pop Art master Roy Lichtenstein alongside Richard Pettibone, who recreated Pop Art as art in its own right. Good to view with children. 051-678-2610.
△Lee Yoon-ju Solo Exhibition "I Saw You" — Through March 11, Gallery Migo. The artist channels the feeling evoked by old photographs and demolished new-town sites into emotionally rich oil paintings and various drawings. An exhibition that highlights the sensibility of a Busan-born artist, born in 1980. 051-731-3444.
△"Green Catastrophe" Exhibition — Through March 15, Arirang Gallery. A solo invitational exhibition by Lee Sae-byeol, a graduate of Seoul National University of Science and Technology's Department of Plastic Arts. 27 oil paintings including "Green Foundation" and "Twenty Shadows." Her second visit to Busan since her 2010 solo exhibition. 051-731-0373.
△Kim Jung-ae & Seo Bo-eun Exhibition, "Funny+Crazy" — March 1 to 15, Misuleui-geori Gallery. A chance to feel the fresh sensibility of two women artists working in ceramics and metal craft. 051-256-5328.
△"Everyday is a Festival 19 — Punk'n Roll Circus" — Through March 15, Bupyeong Art Space. Vibrant paintings and installations by young artists including Kim Su-yeong, Park Sang-heon, Lee Mo-a, Lee Jeong-mi, Jeon Jae-wan, and Cha Pu-reum. 051-248-2011.
△Kwak Yoon-jung Invitational Exhibition "Colorful Life" — Through March 17, Gallery Seorin Space. Born in Daegu, the artist focuses on familiar cityscapes, people, and relationships. What is life, what is the city? 051-742-7422.
△National Geographic Exhibition "A Record of Beautiful Days" — Through March 17, Wolseok Art Hall. Around 200 curated National Geographic works reveal the diverse faces of nature rarely encountered in everyday life, conveying the message that "the earth is not humanity's possession but must coexist with all life." Adults 12,000 won, elementary–high school students 9,000 won, infants 7,000 won. 1577-7600.
△"Looking — Wooden Geese, Bojagi" Exhibition — Through March 19, Johyun Gallery Busan. An exhibition offering a distinctive atmosphere through some 60 reinterpreted traditional wooden geese and bojagi (wrapping cloths) hung above illuminated lighting. Features a selection of antiques from the collection of "painter of Seorak" Kim Jong-hak. Part 1 exhibits the wooden geese first, and from March 5, Part 2 combines around 30 traditional bojagi with contemporary installation art. 051-747-8853.
△Ji Ho-jun Solo Exhibition "Coin Invasion" — Through March 23, Gallery Ibae. Photographer Ji Ho-jun, known for combining science and photography into topical works, magnifies coins down to the nanometer scale under an optical microscope, transforming them into a single massive artwork. A chance to confirm his recurring theme of "the absence of absolute truth." 051-746-2111.
△Blue Photography — Son I-suk "I See" Exhibition — Through March 25, Toyota Photo Space. The first exhibition in the "Blue Photography" emerging-artist support project launched in 2013. Son I-suk's new "Daydream of Snow" series awaits. 051-731-6200.
△Kim In-gyeom & Hiratsuka Ryoichi Invitational Exhibition "Between Space and Time" — Through March 28, Gallery Idem. Marking the gallery's 5th anniversary. A meeting between Kim In-gyeom, who works around the theme "Space-less," and a Japanese artist who abstractly expresses the accumulation of time. 051-743-0059.
△Kim Hyun Jung Solo Exhibition "Her Naesoong?" — March 4 to 29, Gallery Ain. The inner world of women, painted by a young female Korean painter born in 1988. Provocative yet beautiful Oriental paintings await. The figures in the paintings are "dressed" in hanji. Don't mistake hanbok for elegance alone. 051-747-2612.
△Metal Sculpture Five-Artist Exhibition "Spring Breeze~" — Through March 30, Gallery Joy. Jewelry and three-dimensional sculptural works by An Sun-ju, Park Jun, Kim Hwa-jin, Kim Myeong-ro, and Kim Do-kyung, expressing a delicately compressed microscopic world of form. Everyday life reborn as symbol, metaphor, and figurative form. 051-746-5030.
△Son Hyun-wook Solo Exhibition "A Sculptor's Story" — March 2 to April 12, S Plus Gallery. Known for the witty sculptural series "The Art of Excretion," the artist meets the world through new works and lenticular flat pieces. A chance to encounter humor that transcends conventional notions of human truth. 051-742-3353.
△Oh Yoon Retrospective "A Crane Dance Carved in Wood" — Through April 14, MIBU Art Center. Around 170 woodcuts and drawings by Oh Yoon, a leading figure of the Minjung Art (People's Art) movement. Opened last year near Songdo Beach in Amnam-dong, Seo-gu, Busan, the spacious MIBU Art Center fills its entire 2nd and 3rd floors with Oh Yoon's dance-themed works. The first large-scale retrospective held in Busan since the Busan-born painter's death in 1986. Not to be missed. 051-243-3100.
△Jan Saudek Photography Exhibition "Between Romanticism and Eroticism" — March 1 to April 28, Lee Yeon-ju Gallery. Photographs by the world-renowned Czech photographer expressing diverse human relationships through nudes. Viewing restricted to ages 15 and up; paid admission. 8,000 won per person. 051-723-4826.
△Kang Hong-goo Exhibition, "People's Houses — Proxemics Busan" — March 2 to May 9, Goeun Museum of Photography. Photographer Kang Hong-goo captures the history and locality of Busan's houses through a distinctive lens. The first exhibition in Goeun Museum of Photography's annual project "Busan Chamgyeon-rok (Busan Observed)." 051-756-0055.