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15th Anniversary Collective Exhibition Paintings
Leeahn Gallery is pleased to announce Collector’s Room, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary that will be on view at the Seoul location. The exhibition brings together a range of artworks that have been collected over the past five years, after the 10th anniversary exhibition, 10 Years of Passion (2016). Presented works consist of artworks by fourteen renowned artists including Alex Katz, George Condo, Amoako Boafo, Hernan Bas, Mr., and Keith Haring. Such artists represent the contemporary art scene with their commercial viability and artistry, providing the audience with an opportunity to examine the overall flow of contemporary art.Alex Katz (b.1927~), who is considered as the master of modern portraiture, paints portraits, landscapes, and scenes from everyday life in big scales.
His landscape paintings are especially in close relation to movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, and All-over Painting, which were big at the time Katz was building up his career as a painter. Katz eradicates the sense of perspective and instead paints nature with a mixture of color fields, with Magnolia (2005) being such example in this collective exhibition. Katz’s large-scale landscape paintings almost seem to absorb the audience into the canvas, instantly inviting them to his point of view. The artist does so by not only eliminating the specific form and direction of light but also utilizing the color fields in order to create a scene where concreteness and abstractness coexist. Known for his unique portraiture, George Condo (b.1957~) lives and works in New York City.
He combines Europe modernist ideals such as cubism with American visual language, including genres like pop art and cartoon. His works remind that of Picasso, which express complex human emotions three dimensionally. Likewise, Profile with Blue Eyes (2017) is an illustration of psychological cubism, as it displays the portrayed individual distortedly; this skewed portrayal sarcastically mirrors the unstable mentality of people today. Condo depicts his subjects psychologically and philosophically rather than just physically, therefore allowing himself to fully interpret their true essence.
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Leeahn Gallery is pleased to announce Collector’s Room, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary that will be on view at the Seoul location. The exhibition brings together a range of artworks that have been collected over the past five years, after the 10th anniversary exhibition, 10 Years of Passion (2016). Presented works consist of artworks by fourteen renowned artists including Alex Katz, George Condo, Amoako Boafo, Hernan Bas, Mr., and Keith Haring. Such artists represent the contemporary art scene with their commercial viability and artistry, providing the audience with an opportunity to examine the overall flow of contemporary art.Alex Katz (b.1927~), who is considered as the master of modern portraiture, paints portraits, landscapes, and scenes from everyday life in big scales.
His landscape paintings are especially in close relation to movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, and All-over Painting, which were big at the time Katz was building up his career as a painter. Katz eradicates the sense of perspective and instead paints nature with a mixture of color fields, with Magnolia (2005) being such example in this collective exhibition. Katz’s large-scale landscape paintings almost seem to absorb the audience into the canvas, instantly inviting them to his point of view. The artist does so by not only eliminating the specific form and direction of light but also utilizing the color fields in order to create a scene where concreteness and abstractness coexist. Known for his unique portraiture, George Condo (b.1957~) lives and works in New York City.
He combines Europe modernist ideals such as cubism with American visual language, including genres like pop art and cartoon. His works remind that of Picasso, which express complex human emotions three dimensionally. Likewise, Profile with Blue Eyes (2017) is an illustration of psychological cubism, as it displays the portrayed individual distortedly; this skewed portrayal sarcastically mirrors the unstable mentality of people today. Condo depicts his subjects psychologically and philosophically rather than just physically, therefore allowing himself to fully interpret their true essence.
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