Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by 9 Artists at Seoul Public Hanok 'Baeryeom Gaok'

Exhibition of Works Expressing "Here and Now" by 9 Artists Creatively Representing "Contemporary Landscape" Until May 30

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that from the 1st to the 30th, it will hold a special exhibition titled 'STAY1. GOOD AFTERNOON: Today's Landscape Painting' at 'Baeryeom House' located on Gyedong-gil, Jongno-gu.

This exhibition is planned to allow all citizens to view the 'here-and-now' of artists who are diversely expressing contemporary landscapes, following the spirit of Je-dang (霽堂) Baeryeom, who innovated according to the times.

Je-dang Baeryeom was a professor at Hongik University College of Fine Arts and served as a judge for the National Art Exhibition. He is recognized as a figure who established another paradigm of Korean landscape painting after Cheongjeon Lee Sang-beom.

The 'Baeryeom House,' where Je-dang Baeryeom spent his later years, has been operated under private consignment by the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Hongik University since January this year. It functions as a place to discuss and experiment with the interpretation and recreation of tradition, to contemplate and debate the identity of contemporary Korean culture, and to study the past and present of urban architecture while imagining the future.

This year, the operational direction of Baeryeom House is structured around three themes?humanities, arts, and architecture?through programs in the form of dialogues, lectures, and experiments. Utilizing the small scale and familiarity of a Bukchon residential house, it provides an everyday space for residents and citizens while actively introducing and utilizing online media to continuously convey the public nature and identity of public hanok.

The STAY series special exhibition is the first in a continuous series proposing a new form of exhibition. It features paintings, objects, installation sculptures, and furniture by nine artists, offering citizens an opportunity to reflect on 'today's landscape painting.'

Due to the prolonged COVID-19 situation, Baeryeom House planned the STAY series exhibitions to provide a comfortable space where mentally exhausted citizens can stay, reflect, and experience new sensibilities. The follow-up exhibition, STAY2., themed 'Seoul, Everyday Life of the City,' will explore the contemporaneity of urban spaces and is scheduled to be presented in September this year.

The exhibition will operate by advance reservation in accordance with COVID-19 social distancing guidelines. In addition to viewing the exhibition, a new method is proposed where visitors can appreciate landscape paintings along with music and books recommended by the artists in both the outer and inner quarters of the house. Baeryeom House is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and admission is free.

Yang Yong-taek, Acting Director of the Seoul City Urban Regeneration Office, said, "This exhibition will provide a safer and more complete viewing experience through small-scale operations with limited time and number of visitors amid the COVID-19 pandemic," adding, "We will continue to strive to offer various programs at Baeryeom House where residents and citizens can comfortably stay and reflect."

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