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Minjoon Park
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP is pleased to announce the exhibition MYŌ by Park MinJoon, opening Saturday, March 1.
Park MinJoon was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971 and received his MFA from Hongik University in 2006, followed by postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of the Arts in 2007.
Park is an artist who constructs unique fictional worlds through reinterpretations of classical paintings. His works, which are distinctive for their sense of theatrical fantasy, are philosophical variations on themes such as life and death, hope and failure, and dreams and reality. Even as he seeks out the potential and essential nature of Western painting techniques, Park seems to usher us towards a place where new mythologies are created by intermingling them with human figures defamiliarized through an East Asian sensibility.
The modes of artistic expression deployed towards this end are multilayered, and encompass literature, painting, and sculpture. As a novelist, Park has published Rapport Circus (2018) and Two Flags (2020), and has expanded the scope of the world of his work by reconstructing characters and scenes from these novels in the form of paintings and sculptures.
This exhibition will showcase a diverse range of works that delicately trace the boundaries between reality and unreality, using the sensation of myō as a guiding principle.
Park MinJoon was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971 and received his MFA from Hongik University in 2006, followed by postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of the Arts in 2007.
Park is an artist who constructs unique fictional worlds through reinterpretations of classical paintings. His works, which are distinctive for their sense of theatrical fantasy, are philosophical variations on themes such as life and death, hope and failure, and dreams and reality. Even as he seeks out the potential and essential nature of Western painting techniques, Park seems to usher us towards a place where new mythologies are created by intermingling them with human figures defamiliarized through an East Asian sensibility.
The modes of artistic expression deployed towards this end are multilayered, and encompass literature, painting, and sculpture. As a novelist, Park has published Rapport Circus (2018) and Two Flags (2020), and has expanded the scope of the world of his work by reconstructing characters and scenes from these novels in the form of paintings and sculptures.
This exhibition will showcase a diverse range of works that delicately trace the boundaries between reality and unreality, using the sensation of myō as a guiding principle.
Schedule | Mar 1 (Sat) 2025-Apr 5 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Mar 7 (Fri) 2025 16:00 - 18:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.tokyo-gallery.com/exhibitions/6362.html | ||||
| Venue | Tokyo Gallery + BTAP http://www.tokyo-gallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 7F, 8-10-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from the Ginza exit of JR Shimbashi Station. 5 minute walk from exit A3 at Ginza Station on the Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines. 5 minute walk from exit 5 at Shiodome Station on the Toei Oedo or Yurikamome line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3571-1808 | ||||
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