Installation view of
《Futurized Landscapes: Miguel Chevalier, Lee Leenam》 ©Jeonnam Museum of ArtThe
Jeonnam Museum of Art is hosting a special East-West new media art exhibition, 《Futurized Landscapes: Miguel Chevalier, Lee Leenam》, until March 16. This exhibition presents a unique opportunity to
experience the digital artistic visions of Miguel Chevalier, a leading French
digital artist, and Lee Leenam, a prominent Korean media artist, as they
transcend the boundaries of East and West, past and present, to explore the
landscapes of the future through digital art.
Miguel
Chevalier, a French new media artist, combines European Impressionism with AI
technology to create vibrant, virtual landscapes. Lee Leenam, on the other
hand, reconstructs classical paintings using state-of-the-art digital
techniques, pioneering a new dimension of digital art.
Installation view of
《Futurized Landscapes: Miguel Chevalier, Lee Leenam》 ©Jeonnam Museum of ArtIn this exhibition, Chevalier presents
three virtual gardens, utilizing digital technology and impressionistic light.
Like an imagined gardener designing botanical landscapes in a digital cosmos,
visitors will be guided into a nature recreated between dream and reality. His
work begins with the concept of the coexistence of real nature and
human-created technological nature, unfolding a poetic and metaphorical vision
of an artificial paradise.
Lee Leenam reinterprets the aesthetics of
traditional East Asian landscape painting through digital techniques,
expressing the conceptual and spiritual depth inherent in the mountains and
waters (山水, sansu). His works invite visitors to
discover the emptiness within fading landscapes, providing an experience where
time and space are liberated—allowing one to wander through an infinite,
futuristic landscape.
Installation view of
《Futurized Landscapes: Miguel Chevalier, Lee Leenam》 ©Jeonnam Museum of ArtThis exhibition offers a rare opportunity
to explore the innovative and visionary digital worlds of Miguel Chevalier and
Lee Leenam, where East meets West, and tradition merges with modernity and the
future. Through their collaboration, visitors can immerse themselves in a new
media art spectacle, envisioning the future of nature in the digital age.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
