National Museum of Korea</a>, in collaboration with Austria's Leopold Museum, will present a collection of 191 works from the Leopold Museum, showcasing the activities of artists in late 19th-century Vienna who sought change and transition into modernism. The exhibition will explore the role of the Vienna Secession, founded by <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Art-In-Life--Life-In-Art/"/Artist/Gustav-Klimt/4378071FF816E9CF">Gustav Klimt</a>, in its pursuit of artistic freedom, as well as the contributions of contemporary artists from various perspectives, including visual arts, music, architecture, and design. This comprehensive display offers a multi-dimensional view of the shift towards modernity and the search for new forms of expression at the fin-de-siècle.</p><p>You are invited to the beautiful and elegant cultural and artistic hub of the 19th century, Vienna.</p><p><br></p>" />
Nov 30,2024
- Mar 03,2025
Noland at its Seoul and Tokyo galleries. On view first in Seoul from January 10 to March 29, 2025 and then in Tokyo from March 7 to April 19, 2025, these two distinct presentations of rare, museum-quality paintings will bring together works created between the 1960s and early 2000s, encompassing the artist’s most celebrated series.</p><p>A founding member of the Washington Color School—which included Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis, and Alma Thomas among others—Noland was instrumental in forging the language of postwar abstraction in the US. His experimental approach to form and color gave rise to radical works that redefined the medium of painting. Between 1946 and 1948, Noland studied at Black Mountain College in his native North Carolina. There, he was exposed to the ideas of seminal figures such as Josef Albers and John Cage, developing an early interest in the expressive potential of color and chance. As his style matured, the artist would continue to treat color as a resonant force in his abstractions, which feature circles, chevrons, and other geometric forms.</p><p>“By 1960, Ken Noland had become an artist of the first rank, often great, and a primary force in the development of abstract art,” the late curator William Agee, who knew Noland personally, wrote in a 2014 essay accompanying Pace’s first exhibition of the artist’s work in New York. “His was from start to finish an art of color, part of a long tradition that dates in the modern era to Impressionism, runs through Cézanne and Matisse, into the 20th century...”</p><p><br></p>" />
Jan 10,2025
- Mar 29,2025
works by Kim Yun Shin</a>, Kim Chang Euk, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Art-In-Life--Life-In-Art/"/Artist/Hong-Soun/5778BF501A81AA03">Hong Soun</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Art-In-Life--Life-In-Art/"/Artist/Scott-Kahn/3A42AC327FB91455">Scott Kahn</a>, the exhibition speculates on the potential for landscape paintings to generate shifts in the ways that images mediate our experience of the natural environment. </p><p>In Sublime Simulacra, the landscape serves as an inflection point for new modes of perception. The ultimate reality of images was first contested by Plato, who theorized that all representations can be categorized as one of two types: exact (“truthful”) reproductions or deliberately distorted (“false”) likenesses. Jean Baudrillard’s seminal 1981 treatise Simulacra and Simulation expanded upon Plato’s theory by introducing the notion of the simulacrum, defined as an imitation that fails to make reference to its original. In postmodern artistic discourse, simulacra are typically conceptualized as representations of representations—copies based on other copies—that do not derive from empirical experience, thus blurring the line between the actual and the imaginary. This fundamental inability to distinguish objective reality from subjective representation informs much of postmodernist thought, which polemicizes the mediation of the real through simulacra. According to Baudrillard, the apotheosis of this phenomenon occurs when a representation is so lifelike that it creates its own reality, or hyperreality, effectively destroying the hegemony of the real and rewiring the cognitive connection between perception and belief.</p><p><br></p>" />
Jan 22,2025
- Mar 15,2025