Sancheong-gun Shares Public Art Project 'Seonbi Culture' with Residents

'Our Neighborhood Art' Project Completed, 37 Participants Including Artists

Sancheong-gun Public Art Project (Nammyung Maehwa Sancheonjae)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 22nd that it has completed the 'Public Art Project (Seonbi Culture)' that has been underway since last year.

The Public Art Project is a project promoted together with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Gyeongnam Province to provide jobs to artists and allow residents to enjoy culture in order to overcome the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

Since August last year, the county has selected the Korean Seonbi Culture Research Institute, imbued with the Seonbi spirit of Nammyung Jo Sik, as an exhibition space for artworks and has been promoting the Public Art Project.

During the approximately seven-month preparation period, the county held a public contest for artists to produce and exhibit artworks such as calligraphy, painting, and sculpture, and supported the production of works and the establishment of exhibition plans with a budget of 400 million KRW (80% national funds, 20% county funds).

A county official explained, "The reason for setting the project theme as 'Seonbi Culture' is because Sancheong-gun was a forest of Confucian scholars where many Confucian scholars and forest hermits, led by Nammyung Jo Sik, were active in the deep and vast embrace of Jirisan, a famous mountain born from Baekdudaegan, and it was a space that became the source of Seonbi culture."

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