[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] The Kim Bohyun & Silvia Old Art Museum at Chosun University will hold the exhibition "2020 2nd Annual Artist Award: When the Roots Are Firm, Flowers Bloom in All Four Seasons" from the 15th of this month until February 10th of next year.
Following the first exhibition in 2018, this second exhibition is a program to discover and support artists who graduated from Chosun University’s College of Fine Arts and are actively engaged in their artistic work.
This exhibition will be conducted as a pre-open without a separate opening ceremony due to the impact of COVID-19, and an online exhibition will also be held concurrently for visitors who find it difficult to visit the museum.
For the "2020 Artist of the Year Award," a total of 16 alumni artists were recommended by cultural and artistic figures from Gwangju and Jeonnam, and after a final review, four artists were selected.
The selected artists are Kim Jai, Lee In-sung, Jung Jeong-ha, and Choi Hee-won. These artists have steadily built their own artistic worlds through continuous work and are known as promising artists expected to have increasing influence in the Korean art scene.
The theme of this exhibition, "When the Roots Are Firm, Flowers Bloom in All Four Seasons," carries the meaning of wishing that the promising artists who graduated from Chosun University will establish strong roots at their alma mater and expand globally.
Artist Kim Jai researched the essential "rest" in our daily lives. Kim classified rest into "static rest," which is doing nothing and taking a break, and "dynamic rest," which involves light exercise or walking to generate new energy. The artist identified several rest methods that help focus and reflected them in the artistic world.
Artist Lee In-sung reveals metaphorical and symbolic expressions by placing a unique device, an orange dot, within images that move between reality and virtual scenes.
Artist Jung Jeong-ha presents works that capture and record light. Through "works recording light," the artist conveys mental images and human consciousness.
Artist Choi Hee-won expresses generation and extinction, life and death, and circulation as life itself, portraying the eternal, never-stopping vast universe through the breath of trees.
Chosun University Art Museum Director Cho Song-sik said, "While preparing for this exhibition, I realized that many alumni artists are working harder than expected to build their own artistic worlds," adding, "I hope that continuous interest in nurturing artists from our alma mater will provide good opportunities for younger artists who are diligently engaged in their work."
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