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Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan
Jongsuk Yoon. Kumgangsan
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.
Curated by Heike Eipeldauer
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01 Yoon
01 Yoon
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
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
02 Yoon
02 Yoon
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
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
03 Yoon
03 Yoon
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
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
04 Yoon
04 Yoon
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
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
05 Yoon
05 Yoon
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
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
06 Yoon
06 Yoon
Jongsuk Yoon in front of the mural Kumgangsan, 2024
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Jongsuk Yoon in front of the mural Kumgangsan, 2024
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
07 Yoon
07 Yoon
Jongsuk Yoon in front of the mural Kumgangsan, 2024
Gouache on wall
300 × 1440 cm
Photo: Klaus Pichler / mumok
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Jongsuk Yoon in front of the mural 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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Published on December 20, 2023
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