Kukje Gallery will participate in Art Basel’s OVR:20c, the second in a series of two online viewing rooms announced by the fair organizers, running from October 28 through October 31, 2020. Following the cancellation of Art Basel’s Hong Kong, Basel, and Miami Beach editions in light of the pandemic, the fair has responded by initiating new online viewing environments designed to facilitate the very highest level of visual art experience, with the aim to capture the unique energy of a regular fair by presenting a series of selective “freestanding, highly focused, thematic edition[s].” The first initiative, titled OVR:2020, was dedicated exclusively to works made in 2020 and was on view from September 23 through September 26, 2020. The second edition, titled OVR:20c, features works made in the 20th century. Each of these editions is limited to 100 participating galleries, each showing six works simultaneously, in order to create a highly curated experience. Following a successful presentation on OVR:2020, Kukje Gallery is excited to participate in this next iteration, OVR:20c.
Kukje Gallery’s virtual booth for OVR:20c will focus on historical works by modern and contemporary Korean artists. This selection will include an important piece by Wook-kyung Choi titled The nightmare (1966), a painting on paper that exemplifies her signature interpretation of abstract expressionism in which she embraced political themes and social events of her time. The presentation will also include works by Dansaekhwa masters such as Park Seo-Bo’s Ecriture (描法) No. 991222 (1999), in which the artist’s incisive formal vocabulary highlights the textural qualities of hanji (Korean paper); Ha Chong-Hyun’s Conjunction 74-17 (1974), a powerful example of the artist’s internationally celebrated technique of bae-ap-bub, a singular method of pushing paint from the back to the front of the burlap canvas; and Kwon Young-Woo’s Untitled (1985), created during the decade the artist was living in Paris from 1978 to 1989 when he began experimenting with a new color palette on hanji. Also on view in Kukje Gallery’s virtual booth will be Kim Yong-Ik’s Untitled (1992), an exemplary piece from his iconic series of “dot paintings.” Kim remains one of the most independent artists of his generation whose work refuses to be categorized by any dominant school.
Installed in Kukje Gallery’s Busan branch is the newly opened solo exhibition of the celebrated German photographer Candida Höfer, widely acknowledged for pushing the boundaries of contemporary photography, which will remain on view through November 8, 2020.
