The artists give a guided tour through the new exhibition “Mysterious Travels”, explaining their choices for the exhibited artworks and their artistic process.
Kun Su: “The six works I have selected reflect my ongoing engagement with the materiality and tactile qualities of inorganic matter. Beneath this formal observation lies a deeper inquiry into my perception of anxiety and spiritual crisis within the turbulence and uncertainty of our contemporary global condition.”
Youngjun Lee: “I travel through an exploration of pictorial space. While musical notation records time from left to right, I try to build and deconstruct layers as voices in a fugue interweave, compressing time into depth.”
Jaemin Lee: “My work explores a broken love and the passage of time it left behind. Beneath the Delft blue, I retrace those fragments on paper and porcelain, mysteriously travelling through the vanished hours of love.”
Wang Zhibo: “I love this quote Claes Oldenburg wrote in 1967 ‘I am for art that unfolds like a map, that you can squeeze, like your sweetie’s arms, or kiss, like a pet dog. Which expands and squeaks, like an accordion, which you can spill your dinner on, like an old tablecloth.’. I feel, that the paintings and drawings shown in this exhibition resonate with it in some way — even though the context has changed over the past 60 years.”