The Seoul Museum of Art is holding an annual summer vacation special exhibition with the aim of broadening visitors’ understanding of modern art.

This exhibition consists of 54 works of art by young artists who have incorporated their unique sensibility into their works, which use familiar cartoon characters as their subjects, rather than simply borrowing the characters as their materials.

Staged in a two-story building of the Nam Seoul Annex Building, the exhibition is divided into two sections: ‘Looking Back on the World’ (1st fl.) and ‘Communication with the World’ (2nd fl.). Visitors will have an opportunity to appreciate familiar images from their daily life from different perspectives.

Ⅰ. Looking Back on the World
In the process of recreating cartoon characters, the artists have expressed their multi-dimensional and plane works in a critical, introspective, satirical and ironic manner by fusing their own sensibility with their original meaning. Their works of art are romantic, but contain the perspectives of artists who are looking back on the world.

Ⅱ. Communication with the World
In addition to providing visual enjoyment to visitors, this exhibition displays multi-dimensional, plane, and animated works of art, which deliver the messages of communication, play, joy and sharing by inducing visitors to participate while viewing exhibitions of familiar cartoon characters from their childhood.