From our networks: ‘Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes’, a Collateral Event of the Biennale Arte 2024, is presented by KoRICA (Korean Research Institute of Contemporary Art), with the support of the Seundja Rhee Foundation and Gallery Hyundai. The exhibition takes a place at ArteNova (Castello 5063) untill November 24, 2024. Seundja Rhee (1918–2009) is widely recognized as the only woman artist of her generation who has spearheaded Korean abstract art, alongside her contemporaries Kim Whanki and Yoo Youngkuk. Across six decades of her prolific practice, Rhee took to the East Asian theory of yin and yang and the five elements that make up the universe (Eumyangohaeng) as her conceptual bedrock. The exhibition is curated by Bartomeu Marí, former Director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), Seoul. This presentation includes approximately twenty paintings spanning five decades of Rhee’s career, from 1959 through 2008. Marí has stated: “The global art audience will discover an artist concerned with interpreting the world, the cosmos, in its relation to individuals and humans in general. As women artists have been traditionally ignored or undervalued, it is an occasion to rediscover how painting belongs to the great narratives of expression and sharing. The history of modern art in Korea is richer when Seundja Rhee’s work reaches a new level of global relevance.” Having constructed a singular creative language unrestricted to the prevailing modern and contemporary art movements in Korea and France, the latter of which she spent more than half of her life, Rhee’s biography epitomizes a life spent as the “other” and highlights the inextricable connection to the theme of this year’s Biennale Arte: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. Learn more about the exhibition and Seundja Rhee: https://lnkd.in/e6szgGr6 — Images and works: Courtesy of KoRICA (Korean Research Institute of Contemporary Art), the Seundja Rhee Foundation and Gallery Hyundai 1) Portrait of Seundja Rhee 2) Installation view of “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024 3) Installation view of “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024 4) Installation view of “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024 5) Installation view of “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024 6) Installation view of “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024 7) Installation view of “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024 8) Portrait of Bartomeu Marí at “Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes,” ArteNova, Venice, 2024
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