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Artist Rhee Donghoon: Exploring New Relationships Between Sculpture and Painting
Rhee Donghoon (b.1991) navigates between the traditional mediums of sculpture and painting, continually exploring the relationship between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional. His practice involves closely observing living subjects such as plants, trees, and human figures, which he carves into wooden sculptures. These sculpted still lifes then become the subjects of his paintings.
2025.04.22
Exhibitions
《Go Up to Your Neck in Love》, 2021.10.16 – 2021.11.02, Onsu Gonggan
There is a certain landscape—vast, overwhelming, and never to be possessed—that unfolds magnificently before us. We stand in front of it, struck by awe. The sensation that arises when facing such a scene is profoundly sensual. Yet soon, people attempt to master and possess it.
2021.10.15
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Artist Yaloo: Exploring the Poetic Possibilities of Digital Media
Yaloo (b. 1987) has continuously explored the poetic possibilities of digital media through digital moving images, including projection-mapped sculptures, media façades, and VR. Her work draws on a wide range of timeless cultural elements—her own identity, myths, folktales, science and technology, and K-culture—to construct poetic narratives that unfold immersively through technological media.
2025.10.20
Exhibitions
《Seoulites》, 2021.07.16 – 2021.09.09, Museumhead
Love is a confrontation of two parties, who stand facing one another. They meet, experience an overflowing of emotion, and, in some cases, end up going their separate ways—all while facing one another.
2021.07.16
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《Korea Artist Prize 2020》, 2020.12.04 – 2021.04.04, MMCA, Seoul
Since 2012, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and SBS Cultural Foundation have co-sponsored the annual Korea Artist Prize, providing support to outstanding visual artists who are using innovative aesthetics to address the most compelling social issues of our time.
2020.12.01
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[Critique] Break
With the sound of car breaks, an urgent voice, penetrating the iciness of temperatures 15 degrees below zero, sliced away the warm and pleasant air inside of the car.
2012
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