‘Wanderings Toward Freedom’ presents landscapes reconstructed through direct experience and personal reflection

Sejong Museum Gallery is presenting “Wanderings Toward Freedom — Yu (遊),” a solo exhibition by Korean ink painter Cho In Ho, through Oct. 25.

Cho, a professor in the Department of Oriental Painting at Seoul National University, works from the tradition of ink landscape painting while incorporating sensations and thoughts formed through direct encounters with nature.

Rather than reproducing scenery from a single fixed position, Cho combines views observed from different locations within one composition. The resulting landscapes allow several perspectives and experiences of space to coexist on the same surface.

This multi-perspective structure extends the conventions of traditional landscape painting into a contemporary visual language. Physical scenery is reorganised through movement, memory and reflection instead of being treated as an objectively recorded view.

The Chinese character “yu” (遊) in the exhibition title refers to wandering or moving freely. In Cho’s works, the experience of wandering is transformed through the artist’s inner world into what he describes as “simgyeong” (心景), or an internal landscape.

The exhibition examines how traditional ink landscape can develop into a new form when nature is filtered through an artist’s personal experience and thought.

“Wanderings Toward Freedom” is being held in Gallery 1 of Sejong Museum Gallery from Oct. 7–25. Visiting hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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