KAIST, which has been presenting high-quality exhibitions because the opening of its artwork museum in December 2024, has organized a particular exhibition that illuminates how Parisian artwork round 1900 linked to Korean trendy artwork.
On the twenty second, KAIST introduced that it has been concurrently internet hosting the Parisian artwork assortment exhibition ‘Rodin de Paris’ and the particular exhibition for the late artist Ryu Kyung-chai, ‘The Poetics of Emotion,’ on the KAIST Museum of Art since April 14.
Around 1900, Paris was the middle of the artwork world, the place artists from all around the globe gathered, and varied artwork actions clashed and had been experimented with. Transcending their nationalities, they fashioned a world inventive group typically collectively known as the ‘School of Paris’ (École de Paris).
Exhibition Hall 3 of the KAIST Museum of Art showcases the dynamism of the Parisian artwork scene on the time, the place completely different formative languages coexisted throughout this turbulent interval. A complete of 10 works are on show, together with items donated to and owned by the KAIST Museum of Art, resembling Auguste Rodin’s sculpture ‘Étude pour Adam au pilier’ (Study for Adam on the Pillar), Pablo Picasso’s ceramic ‘Colombe Mate’ (Matte Dove), and Marc Chagall’s print ‘Le Cirque à Clown Jaune’ (The Circus with a Yellow Clown).
Meanwhile, the inventive world of Kyung-chai Ryu, launched in Exhibition Hall 2, illustrates the method via which these trendy Parisian artwork actions reached Korea by way of Japan. At the time, Japan was already actively accepting the most recent artwork from Paris, and Korean painters through the Japanese colonial interval encountered Western artwork via Japan. However, there have been historic limitations, as they needed to search gradual change inside an institutional framework somewhat than radical experimentation. Despite these constraints, Kyung-chai Ryu fashioned a stream of Korean lyrical abstraction via new explorations of coloration and type.
Following liberation and the Korean War, Ryu additionally performed a pioneering function as an artwork educator by authoring center and highschool artwork textbooks tailor-made to the realities of Korea. In Exhibition Hall 2, 28 works by Kyung-chai Ryu, donated to and owned by the KAIST Museum of Art, are on show alongside historic supplies that present the movement of Korean trendy artwork historical past—resembling artwork textbooks from that period and the unique Presidential Award certificates he obtained on the 1st National Art Exhibition (Gukjeon) in 1949—courtesy of the bereaved household.
Beyond a easy simultaneous internet hosting, the 2 exhibitions increase the query: “How does artistic innovation originating at the center spread and transform at the periphery?” It demonstrates how the avant-garde artwork of Paris round 1900 was moderated and reconstructed inside the context of colonial Joseon, prompting viewers to view trendy artwork not as a single stream, however as a multilayered interplay.
Hyeon Jeong Suk, Director of the Museum of Art (and Head of the Department of Industrial Design), said: “I hope visitors can experience the global and Korean artistic worldviews together in this exhibition space, which the KAIST Museum of Art organized using donated works by domestic and international masters.”
Kwang Hyung Lee, President of KAIST, remarked: “I would like to express my deepest gratitude once again to the late Chairman Moon-soul Chung for generously donating a large number of artist Kyung-chai Ryu’s works. I look forward to the KAIST Museum of Art establishing itself as a cultural space for both the KAIST community and the public.”