In this video, the artist discusses her work Kumgansan, which is inspired by the mountain range along the border between North and South Korea.
Jongsuk Yoon combines Western and Eastern influences in her works, interpreting classical Korean landscape depictions in a modern and abstract way.
Learn more about her painting technique and creative process of the artist.
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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan
Jongsuk Yoon. Kumgangsan
Curated by Heike Eipeldauer
The mountain massif Kumgangsan is the inspiration for the mural design by Jongsuk Yoon. Kumgangsan ("Diamant Mountain"), which today is located on North Korean territory, commemorates the arbitrary division of North and South Korea in 1945 and as such is a symbol of an unresolved geopolitical conflict and its traumatizing aftermath. Yoon‘s painterly approach to this place, which she has never visited herself, combines the paradigms of Western Modernism and East Asian traditions, particularly Korean sansuhwa (“Mountain and Water Paintings“), to create an entirely anti-monumental landscape painting. Diaphanous layers of large-scale, repeatedly smudged color patches, processual traces, and graphic ciphers condense to form panoramic “soul landscapes” (J. Yoon), in which “inner” and “outer” perspectives oscillate.
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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan, 2024
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan, 2024
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan, 2024
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan, 2024 (Detailed view)
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan, 2024 (Detailed view)
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
© mumok – museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien