IMAGINE
Perrotin Seoul announces Imagine, a group exhibition featuring thirteen artists. Through the exhibited works, which hint at the infinite possibilities and potential of visual art, the show sparks our artistic inspiration and imagination by inviting visitors to explore new sensation and thoughts.
March 28 - April 27, 2024
Daniel Arsham is a 1980 Cleveland-born who studied painting at the Cooper Union in New York and now works across various genres and mediums including painting, sculpture, drawing, film, fashion, and architecture.
Born in 1937, Sinuiju, Pyonganbuk-do, North Korea, Kim Chong-Hak studied at the Seoul National University's Department of Painting and is best known as the "Painter of Seoraksan" and "Painter of Flowers." Although the artist initially produced abstract informel paintings until the 1970s, since 1980, he has resided in Seoraksan Mountain and began creating representational paintings in his studio at the foothills.
Bernard Frize, a leading figure in French contemporary painting, was born in Saint-Mandé, France in 1949 and now works based in Berlin, Germany. From the 1970s to the present, Frize expanded his practice of conceptual abstraction throughout half a century. In Frize’s paintings, ‘abstraction’ is not presented in a difficult or heavy language but as a frame filled with sensational colors and energetic brushstrokes.
Born in Leipzig, German, Hans Hartung (1904-1989) achieved international recognition as a seminal figure of art informel, a movement that emerged in France during World War II. Beyond the apparent spontaneity of his distinctively bold and almost calligraphic gestural abstraction, rationalism equally informed his style, which arose out of an early interest in the relationship between aesthetics and mathematics—particularly the harmony of the golden ratio.
Born in 1937, Sinuiju, Pyonganbuk-do, North Korea, Kim Chong-Hak studied at the Seoul National University's Department of Painting and is best known as the "Painter of Seoraksan" and "Painter of Flowers." Although the artist initially produced abstract informel paintings until the 1970s, since 1980, he has resided in Seoraksan Mountain and began creating representational paintings in his studio at the foothills.
Born in Cheongdo, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, in 1956, Lee Bae works in between Paris, Seoul and Cheongdo since 1989 after graduating from Hongik University’s Painting Department. Charcoal is a key element in Lee Bae’s monochromes which hold an image of the cycle of life through charcoals’ characteristic of being produced when firing wood then also used to revive fire.