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Park Seo-Bo, Huong DodinhPark Seo-Bo Museum
Park Seo-Bo & Huong Dodinh: Emptiness Fullness
박서보와 흐엉 도딘: 비움 그 충만
About the exhibition
This is the museum's opening show: 42 paintings across the whole building, 25 by Park Seo-Bo and 17 by Huong Dodinh, according to Design magazine. The route starts in SPACE Ø on the second basement level, where 1990s works by both painters hang together. On the second floor, a media room shows videos of each artist at work and interviews.
SPACE 2 follows Park's Ecriture series, line-drawn paintings, from black-and-white works on hanji (Korean mulberry paper) to works in colored hanji. The route ends in SPACE 3 with white-toned works by both artists. Herald Business reports that three large 2023 Ecriture paintings hang in an eight-meter-high space with natural light. Black-and-white photographs of the artists at work are in 26SQM, on the lobby floor of the Park Seo-Bo Foundation next door.
Design magazine reports that the museum stands beside the Yeonhui-dong studio site and that the show ties to the 140th anniversary of Korea–France relations. The Cultural Service of the French Embassy is a sponsor.
About the artist
Park Seo-Bo (1931–2023) was born in Yecheon and taught at Hongik University from 1962 to 1966 and from 1970 to 1997. The museum calls Park a representative figure of Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome painting movement, and Design magazine dates the start of Ecriture to 1967. Huong Dodinh (b. 1945, Soc Trang, Vietnam) fled to Paris with family in 1953 and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1965 to 1969, Pace Gallery says. The museum describes Dodinh's dozens of layers of mineral pigment.
Sources: Park Seo-Bo Foundation: CV · Park Seo-Bo Museum: exhibition · Pace Gallery: Huong Dodinh
