K-Art and Korean soft power

By leaving Hong Kong for Seoul, the prestigious Frieze fair has designated the Korean art scene as a major platform for the art market in Asia, challenging its Chinese competitor. Like K-Pop, K-Art thus becomes the new pillar of Korean Soft Power. This artistic exuberance applies to the 16 emerging Korean artists presented by the Luxembourg based gallery to the Art Week, including two artists, Hoon Moreau  and  HyunJoung LEE whose  works  were  just selected  by  the Musée Cernuschi, aka. .

Meditations & multiverse

reclaims the multi-millennial technique of mother-of-pearl-encrusted lacquer, to transcribe her intense experience of meditation, combining her INNER UNIVERSE and the BIG BANG, or other MULTIVERSES. also shares his MEDITATIONS on setting sun reflecting over the Himalayas glaciers.

makes her own “Hanji” paper whose uneven surface adds depth to the CONTEMPLATIONS painted in Chinese ink, evoking majestic mountains on a planet without erosion, or breaking waves in the style of Hokusai, or those from the film Interstellar.

Joining on the theme of the universe again, carves her EARTH AND COSMOS and MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE  in oak, ebony, and gold lit by LEDs, contrasting with Indian ink, evoking dazzling meteors. The artwork chosen by  the Cernuschi Museum is the mirror  of  the one to be exhibited  at Art Week 2024, shown below.

The late Haija BANG is also guided by space in LUMIERE DE TERRE.

While inspired by the mysterious black holes, Sunmi KIM paints “THE EVENTS HORIZON” with marble powder.

Movement and secret techniques

Each artist surprises us with their inventiveness, amazes us with his FACES in meditation, or the portrait of VAN GOGH painted between the blades of his epoxy matrices, cutting out the incident beams of light, forcing the movement of the observer to discover the subject.

By contrast, the artist records the art work’s motion in his WATER PORTRAITS and other EARTH DREAMS: Without touching the canvas with his brush, he creates the work using a unique technique, resulting from an incident involving spilled tea!

  also patented her technical innovations used on MOON JARS, symbols of the ancient Joeson dynasty, which seem to be made of the same porcelain as the originals.

We can also mention the sobriety of the whites of WAVES with its spiral-wound paper ribbons, and ’s WRITINGS scratched on the same Korean Hanji paper. Conversely, ’s colors remind us of his master Rothko, and Jee-Eun LEE succeeds in merging watercolor and acrylic in her “RANDOM PROCESSES” with their bright colors.

Nature as life’s métaphor

’s GRAINS OF SUN tells the story through his plant metaphors inspired by the forest of Jeju Island.

paints modern Seoul with the traditional oriental perspective, and HeangGyun LEE sculpts COUP DE VENT and LES AMANTS in Carrara marble.

ARTSKOCO invites you to discover these artists at the Luxembourg Art Week, and/or for works related to space, at during the from December 2 to 5, 2024.