Period| | 2025.06.27 - 2025.09.07 |
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Operating hours| | 강릉시립미술관(교동관) 10-18시 |
Space| | Gangneung Museum of Art |
Address| | 46, Hwabusan-ro 40beon-gil, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea |
Closed| | Mon |
Price| | Free |
Phone| | 033-640-4271 |
Web site| | 홈페이지 바로가기 |
Artist| |
마이클 케나(Michael Kenna)
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정보수정요청
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Exhibition Information
Michael Kenna (1953–) is a world-renowned black-and-white landscape photographer. For over 50 years, he has adhered to analog printing techniques and has captured landscapes from around the world using a minimalist visual language. Rather than depicting reality as it is, his photographs leave room for suggestion and interpretation through black and white. Where color disappears, light and shadow, negative space and form, silence and the space of imagination remain—allowing viewers to complete each scene with their own imagination. “I also find black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour. For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye.” – Michael Kenna This exhibition features works from Kenna’s “Watchtowers” series, photographed over a period of nearly 20 years—from 2005 to 2024—along the East Coast, as well as parts of the South and West Coasts of Korea. The museum purchased some works from this series in 2023, and the following year, the artist donated 57 more, bringing the total collection to 60 works. This exhibition was organized to share the meaning of this donation with our citizens. The watchtowers and coastal landscapes of Goseong, Yangyang, Gangneung, Donghae, and Samcheok are transformed into tranquil and unfamiliar scenes through the artist’s language of long exposure and black-and-white photography. These landscapes, where sound and movement have disappeared, stand still, imbued with traces of time, while organic nature and man-made structures stand side by side, prompting viewers to see familiar coastlines anew. The artist describes himself as a messenger who delivers “mysterious and beautiful vignettes of the world,” and hopes that these photographs will become landscapes where anyone can freely step in, linger for a while, and then leave. We hope that this exhibition will be an opportunity for visitors to view the landscapes around them from their own perspectives, to pause for a moment in a “time of stillness,” and to find a sense of peace and reflection.