Wooson Gallery was founded in 2012 in the cultural district ‘Bongsan Culture and Art Street’ in Daegu, South Korea. The gallery building was newly constructed in the same year, specially designed for presentations of contemporary artworks. Wooson Gallery sees its principal mission in introducing great artists of our epoch into the Korean art world and museological integration of their work in Korea. In doing so, the gallery promotes a new communication between art lovers and professionals such as critics and scholars. Simultaneously, the gallery helps audiences to establish an authentic modern visual culture, contributing them to create contemporary collections with a high standard of knowledge of international art production.
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Including the Korean masters like CHUNG Sang-Hwa, HA Chong-Hyun, LEE Kang-So, CHOI Byung-So, and LEE Bae, the gallery collaborates with numerous significant international artists such as Jannis KOUNELLIS, Tony CRAGG, Sean SCULLY, Dennis OPPENHEIM, Barthélémy TOGUO, among others to present high-quality exhibitions.
Wooson Gallery continues not only to focus on great masters but also to introduce and promote young talented emerging artists to the global art scene through different international activities and collaborations. Each exhibition is accompanied by an earnest publication with critical academic essays so that releases become an essential material to promote and encourage the young talented artists in Korea.
WOOSON Gallery participates in select international art fairs, including Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Busan, Art Paris Art Fair, Drawing Now Paris, Art Taipei, Daegu Art Fair, and the KIAF.
Ocula News Fake Furries Feature in Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters Section Hong Kong, 28 January 2020 The fair's most Instagrammable section will feature 12 works, including Gimhongsok's fictitious furries and textile off-cuts by Marion Baruch.
Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now By Fawz Kabra RoseLee Goldberg had long been invested in contemporary performance art before her founding of the inter-disciplinary arts organisation Performa in New York in 2004. Born in Durban, South Africa, Goldberg studied political science and fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and then art history at the Courtauld...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 'The sixth edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong brought together a uniquely global mix of galleries spanning six continents, outstanding artworks by established and new artists from across theworld and a singular gathering of international collectors and institutions.' –Art Basel in Hong Kong (29–31 March 2018).
Ocula Conversation Sean Scully By Elliat Albrecht, Guangzhou Already recognised in the Western art historical canon, 71-year-old Irish-born, American-based artist Sean Scully ’s oil paintings are characterised by their geometric constructions and painterly expression. These two disparate modes marry in the artist’s canvases and act as a retort to the rigidity of last century’s hard...
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Related Press Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces 20 July 2019, Hyperallergic VENICE — The two most arresting exhibitions I saw among the Venice Biennale's collateral displays were Sean Scully's Human and Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo for The Brooklyn Rail. Scully's show is a magisterial display of a...
Related Press BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO: THE NOMADIC ARTIST BALANCING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON THE TIP OF HIS PAINT BRUSH 18 June 2019, Hunger The nomadic artist has spent years cultivating his craft. City to city, embracing identities and cultures and leaving remnants of himself behind; with every continent explored, iterations of those anthropological studies fortify his works further to cast bold socio political statements that resonate instantaneously.
Related Press Jannis Kounellis: A Taxonomy of Tired Things 7 June 2019, Frieze All that remained were 48 hats. 48 hats and 48 coats. 48 hats and 48 coats and 48 pairs of shoes. They lay, folded, in six lines of eight, the discarded wear of 48 absent men or the uniform of a single man, repeated some 48 times.
