Artist Vio Choe to Hold Solo Exhibition at The Page Gallery

[Vio Choe's "Universe in my mind" 2021 390x390cm]

Vio Choe, a prominent Korean mid-career artist currently receiving great attention in the art market, will hold a solo exhibition at The Page Gallery located in Seongsu, Seoul.

This exhibition is a large-scale solo show held in Korea for the first time in five years, after actively working overseas, introducing new works to Korean audiences.

Despite the restrictions on movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vio Choe is scheduled to participate in numerous overseas art fairs in July this year, including in Germany and the United States. Over the past decade, he has held solo exhibitions at many international art shows both abroad and domestically, such as the 2021 Scope Miami Art Show, the 2019 Context Art Miami, and Germany's Art Karlsruhe, widely showcasing his capabilities. He is a top-tier painter beloved by art enthusiasts. Notably, in 2017, he was the first Asian to hold a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Heppenheim in Germany, and in 2019, he held a solo exhibition at the Palazzo Bembo during the Venice Biennale, demonstrating the current state of Korean art to the world through various overseas exhibitions.

After majoring in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in Seoul, he earned a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) degree in Multimedia Art from the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan, New York, and worked for several years as an art director at related companies in the United States.

[Vio Choe's "Happy Strings" 2021]

Vio Choe expresses the principles of human life and the world through his unique lines and colors. In his artist’s note, he explained his work and philosophical background as follows.

“During my undergraduate studies in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, I explored the origins of all things through scientifically verified facts, beginning to contemplate the connection between ‘myself,’ a very small part of the vast world, that is, human life and the universe.” He continued, “The microscopic world at the atomic level and the macroscopic world we see, feel, and live in operate on the same principles. This fact has been well established through the language of mathematics, the language of nature, thanks to the passion of humanity’s greatest scientists starting with Newton in the 17th century, and later Niels Bohr and Einstein in the 1920s, and has been thoroughly explained through scientific experiments.”

He concluded, “Atoms, the basic structure of all things in the world, interact and cause changes through energy called electric force, but our human senses and intuition cannot perceive these interactions and changes at all. The important thing is that just because humans cannot feel it, it does not mean it does not happen. Scientists have proven these facts through the language of mathematics and clarified them through experiments, but as an artist, I use the language of art to explain the origins of the world, which forms the background of my work.”

Vio Choe’s exhibition, which expresses a worldview that views art based on scientific proof and facts before aesthetic thinking, will welcome visitors from April 13 to May 27 at The Page Gallery located on the G floor of the Galleria Fore building in Seongsu.

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