ARARIO GALLERY will participate in Art Busan 2023 from 4 to 7 May. This year, ARARIO GALLERY presents paintings by JUNG Kangja, a first-generation Korean female performance artist. In the 60s and 70s, when the powerful military government and ideologies were in conflict, JUNG Kangja attempted to generate social dialogue through various formative experiments as a member of 'New Exhibition Coterie' and 'The Fourth Group'. She received considerable attention at the time for her works that challenged and satirized traditional ideas by choosing her body as the subject and the medium, in terms of playing the dynamics of gender ideology and gender politics by placing women's bodies and sexuality at the center of the work, such as Kiss Me from the Korean Young Artists Association Exhibition in 1967, and The Transparent Balloons and a Nude in 1968, a happening in which transparent balloons were attached to the body of the artist, who was only wearing underwear.
At Art Busan, ARARIO GALLERY introduces painting that depicts the scenery, culture, and people's lives that JUNG personally experienced on her trips to Central and Latin America, such as Mexico and Venezuela; Africa, such as Senegal and Egypt; and various remote parts of the world, since the 1980s. JUNG Kangja is currently having solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, Action, Gesture, Performance: Feminism, the Body and Abstraction, and ARARIO MUSEUM in SPACE, Seoul, Korea, Dear Dream, Fantasy, and Challenge. Also, the artist will be participating in a group exhibition introducing Korean experimental art of the 60s-70s at MMCA in Seoul, Korea, which will travel to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, USA. Another solo exhibition is scheduled for this November at ARARIO GALLERY Shanghai, China.
In addition, ARARIO GALLERY will shed light on major young artists represented by the gallery at Art Busan 2023. Works from the solo exhibition Kai·Ju·People by DON Sunpil who was awarded in the Visual Arts category at the '1st Seoul Arts Awards' in February, held by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, will be presented at the booth. DON considers 'Otaku' culture (people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers) as an interesting social phenomenon and a clue for shared aesthetic senses, not just as a simple hobby or light affection. The artist persistently continues his research on action figures, covering various themes, from the love towards the figures to the overall culture and specific narratives that created them, as well as the quality of the figure itself. The artist has had solo exhibitions such as Kai·Ju·People at YPC Space, Seoul, Korea (2022), Cats on Mars at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2021), Portrait Fist at Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea (2020), and numerous group exhibitions including Sculptural Impulse in SeMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2022) and The Fable of Net in Earth at Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea (2022).Moreover, NOH Sangho focuses on the production and consumption of images between the digital and the real world. "THE GREAT CHAPBOOK", his representative series, and new works from the series, "Holy", which were introduced in the recent re-opening exhibition at ARARIO GALLERY Seoul, will also be presented. Furthermore, ARARIO GALLERY will be presenting artists of the global art scene, such as LEE Jinju, GWON Osang, Asami KIYOKAWA, AHN Jisan, WON Seoung Won, SIM Raejung, JUN Jangyeun, CHA Hyeon-Wook, CHOI Byungso, Kohei NAWA, and recently represented LEE Jeongbae, who have been receiving considerable attention and interest from collectors around the world.
Location
Busan Exhibition and Convention Center
55 APEC-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea