Sejong Museum Gallery presents Song In Hun’s ‘Colored Field’ exhibition

Song In Hun’s landscapes begin in Giverny, Normandy, but they do not remain literal views of flowers, ponds, houses and fields. In his new exhibition, the artist rebuilds those familiar scenes through the light, color and sensations he experienced there.

Sejong Museum Gallery 2 at Sejong University will present “Colored Field” from September 2 to 16. The solo exhibition features around 40 color-field paintings shaped by the artist’s experiences and memories during his stay in France.

Color serves as more than a way to depict scenery in Song’s work. It carries memory and emotion. Bright, bold planes contrast and harmonize with one another, creating their own rhythm, while recognizable landscape forms gradually simplify into new relationships between color and surface.

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This exhibition shows how the artist's view of landscape changes into new images through color and memory.

The Giverny series forms the center of the exhibition. Landscapes that began in a real place pass through the artist’s memory and senses before emerging as new images. The resulting works move beyond reproducing a specific location and become landscapes shaped by personal experience and reflection.

A Sejong Museum Gallery representative said the exhibition shows how the artist’s view of landscape changes through color and memory. The gallery hopes visitors will look at familiar scenery and their own memories in new ways, while experiencing the sensations and reflections created by color.

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We hope visitors will look anew at the landscapes they encounter in everyday life and at their memories, and experience the varied sensations and reflections created by color.