Shinsegae Gallery Hosts Sterling Ruby Solo Exhibition... "Communication with Customers and Culture Arts"

From the 5th of next month until November, held at Boon the Shop Cheongdam

Shinsegae announced on the 21st that it will hold a solo exhibition of American artist Sterling Ruby.

Based in Los Angeles, Sterling Ruby is an artist who crosses the boundaries of art and fashion through painting, drawing, sculpture, and fashion, creating his own unique genre. In 2012, he was selected as one of the 50 artists with the most collectible value in the future by the American monthly magazine ART+AUCTION.

From next month on the 5th until November, the exhibition "The Flower Cutter Rests on Dust Covered Steps" at Shinsegae Gallery Cheongdam (Boon the Shop Cheongdam Basement 1) is composed of about 40 works that allow viewers to appreciate the primal forces that move the earth as if in a story.

The main works of this exhibition include the "TURBINE" series, paintings symbolizing eternal struggle with collage sculptures stacked like stairs against intense and explosive colors as the background.

Also featured are the "Vajin Technology·Dracula Boat" series, which depict tombs through detailed ceramic surfaces and thick glaze treatments combining elements of the living and the dead, ancient and future; the monumental work "Flower Power," reinterpreted from news photos of 1960s American anti-war protests; and the "DR" series, expressing the primal natural world through delicate line drawings.

During the exhibition period, Sterling Ruby's fashion label S.R. STUDIO. LA. CA. couture and accessory collections will also be showcased for the first time in Korea at the Boon the Shop Cheongdam first-floor space. Sterling Ruby's collection, presented on the runway at Pitti Uomo 96 in Florence, Italy, in 2019, has been worn by prominent international figures and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, receiving significant attention.

A Shinsegae Gallery official said, "Since opening the industry's first gallery, Shinsegae has presented exhibitions by high-caliber domestic and international artists such as Kim Whanki and Picasso. Now, we are holding an exhibition of Sterling Ruby, a representative of contemporary art, offering a special artistic experience. We plan to continuously present sincere exhibitions and events combined with various genres such as fashion, design, and architecture to strengthen value communication with customers."

Previously, to foster sincere cultural and artistic communication with customers, Shinsegae held an invitational exhibition of relational aesthetics artist Rirkrit Tiravanija as the first exhibition marking the opening of Shinsegae Gallery Cheongdam in September last year. This exhibition, which led the trend of collaboration between distribution and culture and arts, was praised in the art world for creating "a space of interaction where audience and artwork harmonize."

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