As one of businesses for the national network of municipal art museums, Ha Jung-woong collection "Art of Prayers" will be exhibited. Ha Jung Woong is Korean Japanese and has collected and donated over 10,000 art works and hisorically important data to the museums since 1993. This exhibition consists of 'Ha Jung-woong Collection' 5 municipal museums have. 

This aims to look back the Korean Japanese Artists in the turbulent era. The exhibition is divided into two subjects; 'Trace of History', criminating a life and the era of Korean and Japanese modern times, and 'Heritage from Memories', emphasizing social function of art from a view of minority group, Korean Japanese. Traces of history cannot disappear to the past, but dominate current consciousness. The theme and contents of art works are closely intertwined with matters of life.

The exhibition is where the spirit of the times shared by Korean Japanese and Japanese artists, which is the essence of HA Jung-woong's philosophy, can be found. The first section 'Trace of History' introduces photos of Seung-hee Choi, a Korean modern dancer, collaborated work by  Hiroharu Nii, Takidahira Jiro and Maki Daisuke, and prints by Tomiyama Taeko. For the second section, Duk June Kwak, In Suk Kim, Young Ok Song, Hwa Hwang Jeon, and Yang Kyu Cho, who have showed the life in various realism ways, are participated in. 

Courtesy of Seoul Museum of Art

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Action - Relationship 791, 1979
Photo serigraphy, 40x58cm
© Duk June Kwak and the museum