Savina Museum(Director Lee Myung-Ok), located in Jingwan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, hosts the solo exhibition of “Hong Soun: Sidescape – Disaster, Family." In this exhibition, the artist who has been exploring the concept of "part and whole" for 20 years, presents a series of large-scale works to deepen and expand the proposition of ‘Sidescape’. 'Sidescape' is the artist’s unique aesthetic concept that seeks a point where it may overthrow the fixed relations of dynamics between the center and the surroundings.

From 2nd floor to 4th floor, Hong Soun will present 68 paintings on the theme of natural disaster, family, and iceberg. The huge series of disaster scenes, up to 1,080cm in size, were divided into 100-120 canvases of 60, 50cm and then recombined, considering the spatial conditions of the Savina Museum's exhibition hall. A huge landscape created by recombining small canvases opens your mind and thought, asking questions about the absoluteness of human perception. The meaning of dividing the screen into small pieces is based on the intention to remove the characteristics or stories of the object and draw pictures only with a pure picturesque sense such as color and brush touch.

In addition, this exhibition introduces a series of "Typical belief, typical misconception", which aesthetically explored how historical transducers affected family conflicts. Through philosophical contemplation and insight into life, it also seeks a point where the conflict between mother and son (artist) expands into a conflict between history and worldviews, not just between generations. Through this exhibition, the artist presents a way to experiment with the pictorial sense and establish a new landscape aesthetics.

Organization: Savina Museum

Support: Arts Council Korea

Sponsor: LG Display