15 January–1 March, 2016

Contemporary Sansuhwa

KOREAN CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS

Hong Kong

Overview

Hong Kong—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present Contemporary Sansuhwa, a group exhibition introducing contemporary Korean landscape painting and showcasing works by three prominent Korean artists: Lee Sea Hyun (b. 1967), Moon Beom (b. 1955), and Whang Inkie (b. 1951), curated by Miki Wick-Kim, curator, writer, and art advisor based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sansuhwa is the Korean word for ‘landscape painting’, with the word san meaning ‘mountain’ and su ‘water’. As elsewhere in East Asia, landscape painting was one of the preeminent genres of traditional fine arts in Korea. Much of the country’s landmass is mountainous, and the cultural traditions and philosophies, including Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, have been informed in part by a relationship to the mountains and nature. Landscape paintings were seldom only representational, but were explorations by classical artists in search of an ideal land or paradise.

Selected works