Installation view of 《When the Brush Moves, the World Continues》 © Daegu Art Museum
Daegu Art Museum presents the special
exhibition 《When the Brush Moves, the World Continues》
to mark its 15th anniversary, on view through June 14.
《When the Brush Moves, the World Continues》 tells the story of artists who, across time, have shaped worlds at
the tip of a brush. What remains are traces alive with spirit resonance and
life-motion, mirroring infinite cosmoses that ceaselessly emerge and expand.
This exhibition aims to illuminate the way
a single brushstroke's inception evolves into a vast artistic current that
continues to course through our contemporary moment.
Installation view of 《When the Brush Moves, the World Continues》 © Daegu Ilbo
The triad of poetry, calligraphy, and
painting constituted the primary channels by which the literati expressed their
worldview—refined tools that carried the intellectual currents of their time.
The exhibition traces the genealogy of poetry, calligraphy, and painting,
connecting their artistic soul to Korean painting of our time.
Across brush, ink, and hanji (Korean
paper), time flows while art’s essence discovers new variations. Contemporary
artists carry forward inherited methods and spirit, inscribing their own
versions of poetry-calligraphy-painting through distinctive sensibilities and
vocabularies.
he exhibition comprises three sections:
Part I, Part II, and the Umi Hall. In Part I, 《When the
Brush Moves》, we encounter the essence of traditional
Korean painting and its contemporary reinterpretations. The brush and ink of
past masters hold within them the distilled essence of nature’s laws and human
interiority. Their brushstrokes go beyond simply reproducing forms—they mark
precious first steps in making the unseen world of spirit visible.
Installation view of 《When the Brush Moves, the World Continues》 © Daegu Ilbo
The second section, 《The World Continues》, explores how those
earlier brushstrokes undergo transformation and expansion within the temporal
strata of our contemporary moment. Dissolving technical boundaries,
transcending material constraints, Korean painting demonstrates a supple yet
resilient vitality, capable of encompassing the world as it exists “here and
now.”
In the Umi Hall, 《Sky
and Earth: Longing for Origins》 features four artists
across generations who envision landscapes of the world infused with
philosophical, spiritual, and conceptual reflection. Their unique modes of
seeing and articulating existence converge in a harmonious dialogue within this
space.
By weaving together multiple artistic
voices and historical moments, this exhibition invites an encounter with Korean
beauty across yesterday, today, and tomorrow, awakening our artistic
sensibilities and deepening our reflection beyond the boundaries of time. As
long as the brush continues its movement, the world of Korean painting unfolds
without cessation.
