Newstown | Exhibition on ‘Marriage,’ the New Holiday Stress for the Younger Generation, by Artist Kim Hyun Jung
Newstown reported that artist Kim Hyun Jung is holding her solo exhibition 'A Tray of Eggs, Marrying Age' from September 2 to 14 at Keumboseong Art Center, to commemorate her Korea Young Artist Award. The artist said she wittily unpacked her peers' thoughts on marriage through works that borrow the composition and imagery of famous paintings.
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A solo exhibition by Kim Hyun Jung, the 'icon of Korean painting,' opens this week, from the 2nd through the 14th, on the 1st floor of Keumboseong Art Center in Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu.
This exhibition is held with the support of the Korean Fine Arts Association and Keumboseong Art Center, to commemorate artist Kim Hyun Jung's Korea Young Artist Award.
In 'A Tray of Eggs, Marrying Age,' artist Kim Hyun Jung introduces a number of works that borrow the basic composition and imagery of famous paintings.
Artist Kim said, "I thought the composition and coloring of famous paintings could be effectively used to express the message a painter wants to convey.
"What does marriage mean to my peers, who have now reached 'a tray of eggs' in age?"
Kim Hyun Jung said in the interview, "I thought I'd be unshaken even if my mother's lament that 'my only wish this year is for my daughter to get married' kept echoing like it always does, but at some point I realized it had built up into real stress, and my work had started staring straight at the subject of marriage."