This catalogue accompanies the retrospective exhibition of Chang-Sup Chung at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 3 August – 17 October 2010. Among the first generation of artists educated in Korea after its liberation, Chang-Sup Chung was an influential abstract painter who experimented with Art Informel, monochrome painting, and Minimalism in a lifelong search for the identity of Korean art. He is especially known for his paper mulberry or 'tak' works, produced by adhering wet fibres extracted from the tree bark directly onto the canvas. This retrospective is the first exhibition of its kind to look back on the artist's achievements and contributions to Korean contemporary art.

Includes four essays, supplemented by artist's notes and past writings by critics. In Korean and English unless otherwise noted. With chronology and bibliography (in Korean only).

Access level

Onsite

publisher

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 국립현대미술관 (Gwacheon, South Korea)

Location code

MON.CCS3

Language

English,

Japanese,

Korean

Keyword

oil painting, mixed media, abstraction, Dansaekhwa, Korean Informel Movement, minimalism, retrospective exhibition, solo exhibition

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

276

ISBN / ISSN

9788963030258

No of copies

Content type

artist monograph,

catalogue

Chapter headings

Chang-Sup Chung's Art: Into the Silence and Anonymity - LEE Ryoung, 이순령

Unification of the Object and the Self, Art of Chang-Sup Chung - KIM Yongdae, 김용대

Discourse on Chang-Sup Chung - SONG Misook, 송미숙

Chang-Sup Chung, In Company with Nature - SUH Sungrok, 서성록

The World of My Paper Works - CHUNG Changsup, 정창섭

Working with Nature - Lewis BIGGS

紙という宇宙：丁昌燮の作品 (in Japanese and Korean only) - Yusuke NAKAHARA, 中原佑介

９９と１００の間：丁昌燮の楮 (in Japanese and Korean only) - Shigeo CHIBA, 千葉成夫

Related event

venue	date
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (NMCA), 국립현대미술관, Gwacheon, South Korea	2010

Artist

CHUNG Changsup, 정창섭

Organiser

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 국립현대미술관 (Gwacheon, South Korea)

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