Second and final '2022 Kumho Young Artist' exhibit opens

Arts & Design

Published: 16 May. 2022, 15:19

Second and final '2022 Kumho Young Artist' exhibit opens

Mooni Perry's ″Missing: When my dog can't even come back as a ghost″ (2022) [SHIN MIN-HEE]

The second part of “2022 Kumho Young Artist” is filled with performances, installations and paintings by three up-and-coming artists.

The Kumho Museum of Art’s annual contest selects artists that are under 35 years old with the purpose of discovering and promoting them and their talents. This year marks the 19th edition.

Artists Mooni Perry, 32, Lee Da-hee, 35, and Cho Hae-na, 34, prove that even with distinctive art forms, they can still harmonize under the common goal that they have made an effort to provide new perspectives on contemporary art.

″J.S.Bach-Prelude in d minor BWV851″ (2022) by Lee Da-hee [SHIN MIN-HEE]

The first part of the contest, which showcased the paintings of 33-year-old Park Da-som, 33-year-old Choi Ka-young and 35-year-old Hoh Woo-jung, ran until April 24.

Mooni Perry, a Korean artist who is based in both Seoul and Berlin, aims to explore topics on feminism and animal cloning in her video project “Missing: When my dog can’t even come back as a ghost” (2022). A three-channel video is set up like a stage and sees actors read a script resembling pansori (traditional Korean narrative singing).

Lee’s paintings incorporate the musical score of Johann Sebastian Bach’s (1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor, BWV 851 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1," turning it into a series of colorful symbols on paper.

“My paintings are not simply a musical score,” Lee explained during a press tour on May 6. “They are recordings of the order in which the music plays. The variations of the sounds are expressed through the changing colors, and I achieved this by calculating the articulation of each musician.”

″Title″ (2022) by Cho Hae-na [KUMHO MUSEUM OF ART]

Cho focuses her work on kinetic art and the unintended movements of machinery to portray how everything is part of an organism that ceaselessly interacts with other beings. She named her exhibition “Turbulence.”

The second, and final, part of “2022 Kumho Young Artist” continues until June 19. The Kumho Museum of Art is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are 4,000 won ($3) for adults.

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]