Sejong Museum Gallery to Present Chuni Park’s 25-Year Record of Korean Landscape Painting

Large ink landscapes measuring from 300 to 1,000 traditional canvas units will dominate Chuni Park’s upcoming exhibition at Sejong Museum Gallery 1. ‘Chuni Park: A Record of Landscape Scenery’ runs from Sept. 4 to 13 at Sejong University’s gallery.

The exhibition brings together about 20 works, including representative pieces and recent paintings developed over the artist’s 25-year engagement with landscape scenery. The gallery says the large canvases allow visitors to encounter the scale, depth and solemnity of ink painting in one place.

Park has spent decades pushing Korean ink painting beyond conventional forms. Since the early 2000s, he has used everyday materials including blackboards, hanji paper, ramen, plastic bags and large aquariums in unconventional installations and performances. Drawing on more than 200 volumes of field sketchbooks and overseas sketching trips, he developed distinctive brush techniques known as “ramen jun,” “thumbtack jun” and “iron-wire jun.”

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This exhibition, organized together with a foreword written by the artist himself, is a record of one painter’s intense exploration carried on quietly while holding onto the single subject of landscape scenery.

After a special exhibition at the Venice Biennale in the mid-2010s, Park expanded his work through series depicting the vast landscapes of the American West, as well as ‘Forest of Healing’ and ‘Forest of Contemplation.’ More recent works examine the relationship between light and ink, while monumental plum and cherry tree paintings continue his changing investigation of nature.

The gallery described the exhibition as a record of Park’s sustained, intense inquiry into a single subject, landscape scenery. The presentation will include a foreword written by the artist himself.

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It will be a meaningful exhibition where visitors can examine the changes in contemporary Korean landscape painting and the artist’s continually expanding formal experiments through Chuni Park’s work over the past 25 years.