▲ A50121, Acrylic on velvet, 81x65cm, 2021 ⓒ Rémy Hysbergue, Gallery KkiRémy Hysbergue holds the first solo exhibition in Asia in Seoul, South Korea.

Rémy is a French abstract artist who creates works based on velvet. He holds the first solo exhibition to introduce his works in Korea and Asia. Among the works he has devoted to velvet over the past decade, the works between 2020 and 2023 that best reveal his artistic concerns and expression will be carefully displayed in the exhibition.

The artist is considered to have crossed the boundaries of traditional painting to reflect the influence of the digital age. He explores intense and lively colors and deep textures using nontraditional supports such as silk, satin, and velvet, through which he richly expresses the interaction between light and shadow, and color and form.

▲ A53522, Acrylic on velvet, 81x65cm, 2021 ⓒ Rémy Hysbergue, Gallery Kki

For the past 30 years, he has explored the genealogy of abstraction in the 20th century and has considered the formal aspects of painting that can be possessed by later abstraction. "Painting is the result of traditional methods, how to use light, and deep consideration and hand-created touch," he says.

As such, he deals in-depth with the concept of 'intermediate image' of painting and digital images through the process of melting images produced by digital media into traditional paintings. 

▲ A59623, Acrylic on velvet, 161x130cm, 2021 ⓒ Rémy Hysbergue, Gallery Kki

The artist uses acrylic with intense colors to create bright and vivid images on velvet, like a digital screen. His work, which was created through the interaction of the unique texture, bright and lively colors, and light produced by the fabric called velvet, presents a new methodology for contemporary abstraction.

This exhibition challenges the viewer's visual sense through the harmony of light, color, and texture, as well as the visual beauty created by the screen of the painting, and provides an opportunity to experience the interaction between art and technology, material and senses.

The exhibition will be held until Feb. 24 at Gallery Kki in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, and admission is free.

▲ A42721, Acrylic on velvet, 117x90cm, 2021 ⓒ Rémy Hysbergue, Gallery Kki

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