Kukje Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Frieze Masters 2021 from October 13 to 17, 2021. Kukje Gallery will collaborate with Mazzoleni Art, the respected gallery based in London and Turin, Italy, to showcase important historical works by Dansaekhwa artists. Since 1986, Mazzoleni Art has represented some of the most prestigious artists and estates of the 20th century including Lucio Fontana and Giorgio de Chirico—together, the two galleries’ joint installation at Frieze Masters will create a rich dialogue that both traverses and transcends Western and Eastern modern art history.

Kukje Gallery’s contribution to the booth will include Park Seo-Bo’s Ecriture (描法) No. 201-85 (1985), an exemplary work from the artist’s early-Ecriture series of the 1980s that emphasizes repetitive action as a spiritual channel for emptying and disciplining the self; Ha Chong-Hyun’s Conjunction 84-44 (1984), an early piece from his iconic Conjunction series that features an unusual earth tone inspired by both the artist’s surroundings and historical milieu; and Kwon Young-Woo’s Untitled (c. 1980s), featuring the artist’s signature medium of hanji (Korean paper) where the surface is repeatedly punctured and torn with numerous holes that are then saturated with ink, filling the spaces in distinctive patterns. Earlier this year, works by these three seminal Korean postwar artists were acquired by the Centre Pompidou, not only reinforcing the representation of Korean art within the global art scene, but also providing an important point of departure for extensive art-historical discourse surrounding the movement.