Gallery YEH presents mid-career artist Choi Insun’s solo show. 
This exhibition is her 38th solo show which is being held four years after her 2009 solo show at Gallery YEH. Choi brings to the show her new pieces in which different value systems coexist together. 

In terms of art history, contemporary art is largely classified into two types: one including images and one excluding images. At a glance, Choi’s work looks like a representational painting with images, but the unit of her work appears abstract. Choi’s pieces titled Museum Interior showcase a sense of diverse forms through an aggregation of dots, lines, and planes.

This work, dating back to 2004, forms flexible structures, moving beyond horizontal and vertical elements and instead displays realistic forms, drawing a more figurative world into the canvas. Her images, which are applied with refined hues appear intense, glide over the canvas through her distinctive, sensuous color variations. In the exhibition, viewers become realistic objects in the space of a visible world and become part of that world, being drawn to the world for formative beauty from the viewpoint of abstraction. All these will be unique experiences we can have through Choi’s works encapsulating her artistic ideas. In Abstract landscape and Museum Interior, viewed from an artist’s eye, nimble rhythms are added to the beautiful space of color which opens to infinite possibilities.

The recent pieces (about 50 works in total) on display at the exhibition present exquisitely harmonious spaces in which traces appear in mature density. Her works were sold at the auctions in Sotherby’s in New York, a mecca of world art, and Christie’s in Hong Kong, the art market recently receiving worldwide attention for being widely accepted and praised in the world art market.

Courtesy of Gallery Yeh