From painting on Korean paper to media art with LED, eight artists who cover materials, topics and expressions in the past and future will be exhibited at Gana Art Busan.
Sang Yeon Kim carves group of cows with wings flying freely on wood and makes lacquer. It looks very modern installation work, but an subject 'cow' represents a feeling of Korea. In the past, a cow had an important role for an agrarian society, but now it exists to provide foods and leather to us. In the modern society with complexity and conflict, the artist tells simplicity and stupidity of cow can be one of solution to solve the current problem. Also, flying cows express liberation and freedom. 
Kwang Hee Jeong has concerned about a problem of Korean painting. He pursues abstract painting based on calligraphy. However, his style is very unique. He folds thick sliding-screen paper and layers it with other materials. Thus, his works have various sizes. 
Woon Kang has expressed pure forms, a sky and clouds. In oil painting, he shows a problem of time, space and light, the air and dream through 'moving in silence' in Asian culture with layering paper works, and universal emotion and dream an agricultural people have with thin coloring. 
Meanwhile, Jeong Rok Lee exhibits digital works with light, camera and installation, but it gives off analogue atmosphere. In this process, the light is a symbol of infinity through blinking in a moment. 
Mary Lee's work looks like it is from the late-Western minimalism. However, it involves Orientalism, Koreaness, and progressed experimentation. With her, Lee Nam Lee gives humor through interpreting traditional masterpiece.
Bong Chae Son tells his experience in New York. Using polycarbonate with acrylic and thin brush, his stereoscopic painting generates infinite imagination and  dreamlike feeling. 
Hyun Mo Gu, a media artist using ordinary life, exhibits 'wineglass 2007' series. A landscape with inherent motion is his work itself. His work doesn't define a boundary between subjective and objective truths, but makes division itself to be pointless. 

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air and dream, Woon Kang, 80.3x116.7cm, Korean paper on canvas, 2011