Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

Installation View of “Park Minjoon : X” at Gallery Hyundai, 2022

Exhibition view

Installation View of “Park Minjoon : X” at Gallery Hyundai, 2022

			Gallery Hyundai is pleased to present Park Minjoon's solo exhibition X from December 21, 2022 to February 5, 2023.

Park Minjoon creates absorbing stories with mythical narratives and continues to make hyper-realistic paintings of various characters, such as clowns and circus members, on canvas with detailed and precise pictorial strokes reminiscent of the classical paintings. His work, which embraces the mysterious atmosphere aroused as the paintings and novel(s) closely related to one another, guides us to look at the introspective scenery of life from a new perspective. 

Park Minjoon’s X commemorates the artist's 10th solo exhibition. The exhibition title "X" has multiple meanings, including the number 10, the unknown world, and "collaboration," connecting the artist's past series and new works into a single worldview. 

Rapport Circus, the series about the whimsical stories of the members of Rapport Circus, focusing on the genius acrobat brother Rapo and the ordinary younger brother Rapu, and another representative series Two Flags which compares the symmetry of the world, such as life/death, man/woman, yin/yang, start/end, and more, to number, and X, which embraces the two aforementioned series while experimenting with expressive techniques and formability; and the new series Commedia dell'Arte featuring characters inspired by the improvisation theatre popular in Italy between the 16th to 18th century are all introduced in this exhibition.

X will offer an opportunity to look into the wide-ranging world of the artist, which overlaps and varies as an extension of existing work through about 30 paintings and sculptures, as well as the dialogues and a novel written by the artist. 

(Source - Gallery Hyundai)