Newsis | ‘Idol of Korean Painting’ Kim Hyun Jung Comes to Andong… Exhibition at Yekki Village

Meeting 'Naesoong, Spring Story' in the tourism hub city of Andong

[Andong=Newsis] Reporter Kim Jin-ho = Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung's (36) exhibition 'Naesoong, Spring Story' will be held at Yekki Village in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, from the 15th to the 28th.

According to the city on the 13th, around 20 representative works by Kim Hyun Jung, regarded as a rising star of the Korean art world drawing attention for the boldness of her fresh ideas, subject matter, and expressive techniques, will offer visitors a special moment.

'Naesoong, Spring Story,' prepared as a program to revitalize tourism in Andong's Dosan region, is Kim Hyun Jung's second regional exhibition.

It is expected to present a direction for Andong, a city of traditional culture, to move toward, and to lend meaning to the reinterpretation and popularization of traditional culture.

Starting with an opening event at 11 a.m. on the 15th at the village gallery Geunmindang, the artist will also give a lecture.

Kim Hyun Jung is well known as an artist who paints women wearing hanbok, the clothing representative of traditional culture. She has won much love for her 'Naesoong' series, which uses traditional Oriental painting techniques to realistically depict figures and reinterprets genre painting in a contemporary way in fun, meaningful works.

Her works are included in nine sets of elementary, middle, and high school art textbooks.

In 2017 she became the first Korean art figure to be selected for the U.S. magazine Forbes' 'Asia's 30 Under 30' list.

Last year she was invited to hold a special exhibition at the 'Special Exhibition for the Establishment of Kimchi Day' at the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., making her a young painter leading the globalization of the new Korean Wave in the field of art.

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Written by — Reporter Kim Jin-ho