Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
Opened to the public since 2001, the Uijae Museum of Korean Art was established by the Uijae Foundation and Gwangju City Council, with the hope that it would become a place where his works could be celebrated and brought back to life.
Why do humans want to be connected? Why do they want to reach farther and higher? To compete and to conquer? For high returns? To control? To Seo Kee-moon, humans have to be connected to communicate, share, and be happy with each other. The direction of his vigorous force and energy are symbolized in his latest work “Cable Flower” in his most recent exhibition Metaverse.
“Living an isolated life with little interaction with others, I painted dark self-portraits of me trapped in loneliness.”
The Expressions exhibition at Gwangju University is a collaboration of six talented foreign women who are currently residing in Gwangju. The theme “Expressions” came about as an opportunity for each to share their own perspectives on expat living, as well as to express their thoughts on the current global climate, both in public and personal ways. Each artist, with her own creative liberties, was able to reflect and form beautiful revelations for her artwork.
“This is my mission: to find the beauty in women as being strong, confident, and challenging.”
“Art is an intermittent cough that shares the pain of others, and it is the talk of pain.”
Lee Min majored in fine art at Chosun University and moved to Japan to major in printmaking at Dama University. Through the experimental process with various printmaking techniques, Lee pioneered a new genre of printmaking which he calls “Pan-tablo.”
These two artists both take as subject matter the dwellings of the alleyways and byways of the past, but as Kang discovers, they are not two peas in the same pod – no two artists are – but these two artists’ pods spring from the same pea plant.
