Sooyoung Seo's solo exhibition will be held at Helenandjae gallery Seoul in Samcheong-dong, Seoul. In this exhibition, about 30 works by Seo in homage to Korean traditional art over the past 22 years (2000-2022) will be on stage.

The exhibition is divided into three sub-themes: landscape painting, figure painting, and still life painting.

In Seo's works, gold leaf, a traditional Goryeo Buddhist painting technique, traditional ink techniques, traditional coloring techniques, and craft techniques that applied the properties of Korean paper were used.

The sub-theme on the first floor is "Homage to Korean Art". A homage to these traditional Korean art works, Inwangjesaekdo, Geumgangjeondo, Ilwolobongdo, and Chaekgado, will be exhibited.

Seo's "2010 Geumbyeok Geumgang Jeondo (金璧金剛全圖)" is a work that borrows images of Joseon landscape paintings and uses a three-dimensional expression method in which gold leaf is coated on stone dough.

The sub-theme of the second floor is "The dignity of the imperial family - its eternal beauty". In this section, you can meet a series of portraits of the imperial family.

The sub-theme of the third floor is "Garden of Treasure_ Timelessness". In this section, you can meet Seo's latest work "The Garden of Treasure_Timelessness Series". In this series, Seo sublimated the moon jar into Korea's representative image.

Seo said, “I wanted to bring out the beauty of Korea achieved by our ancestors to the world. Seo said, “I wanted to bring out the beauty of Korea achieved by our ancestors to the world. I think that if a Korean story is reborn with an identity, it can be recognized as a true value.”

The exhibition period is from November 7th to December 8th.

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