Break News | Let’s Run Park Seoul Presents Kim Hyun Jung’s ‘(New) Portrait of a Beauty on Horseback’
Let's Run Park Seoul Horse Museum announced it would hold Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung's invitational exhibition '(New) Portrait of a Beauty on Horseback' to mark the renovation of its special exhibition hall. Running November 5-29, the exhibition introduces new works on the theme of horses and women.
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Break News, Reporter Kim Young-rok = Let's Run Park Seoul Horse Museum announced it will hold Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung's invitational exhibition '(New) Portrait of a Beauty on Horseback,' to mark the renovation of its special exhibition hall.
Opening November 5, 2015, the exhibition presents a series of works that might be called Korean painting's own '(New) Portrait of a Beauty on Horseback': works depicting horses and women such as △Riding a Horse △A Woman Is a Horse △Somma-time △A Word of Congratulations △Santa Maria △Naesoong Paradise, alongside △Naesoong: Genitis △Naesoong: The One Who Moves Me △Hero △the Where Is Your Rainbow? series and △Spring Maiden, in which various modern vehicles — scooters, bicycles, trucks, cars, motorcycles — replace the horse of traditional painting.
Kim Hyun Jung is an up-and-coming Korean painter who, in this exhibition, unfolds the life and sentiments of contemporary people through delicate depiction reminiscent of Goryeo Buddhist painting and humor rooted in Joseon-era genre painting, using horses and beauties as her subject.
In particular, beyond the high level of expression in these works, their fresh themes may be seen as a model of a new genre painting. The artist's honest exposure of desire offers catharsis to those ordinarily confined within social norms.
For an artist who had until now mostly painted women alone, this exhibition project — introducing the horse, a warm living creature — was, she says, a new source of stimulation and change.
Star artist Kim Hyun Jung, who infuses tradition with novelty and continues to receive attention from around the world, can be seen for free (excluding the Let's Run Park entrance fee on race days) at Let's Run Park Seoul Horse Museum through November 29.