Velázquez, ‘Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670),’ 1650. Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971.
From September 15, 2023 to February 18, 2024, the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (Soma) will present the new collection exhibition Moving in stillness with nine artists. The term refers to movement in stillness and stillness in movement, and the exhibition explores the virtues of balancing these ambivalent meanings in works of art.
This is the third exhibition of the collection after 2007 and 2013 and focuses on works purchased or donated between 2019 and 2022. In the first exhibition hall, the theme of body and people is explored, with portraits by Tai KIM, early drawings by Lee Manik, and human sculptures by In RYU. While Kim’s and Lee’s portraits share the same subject matter, Kim’s work is characterized by delicate and precise lines, while Lee’s is more abstract and powerful.
In the second exhibition hall, Lee Manik, who served as the artistic director of the Seoul Olympic, presents a series of works created to commemorate the opening and closing ceremonies of the Seoul Olympics. In the fourth exhibition hall, viewers can see works that deal with body, consciousness, nature, and landscape in the context of contemporary art. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional works by Yunjung CHUN, JEONG Heonjo, Taebum HA, Byoungho KIM, KANG Kyung Koo, and Jihee KIM are the main focus, and Tai Kim’s works (landscape paintings) are on display following the first exhibition hall.
