“An artist keeps searching for things—living in a search period all his life. I don’t mean I have found what I Have wanted to find. I feel most hesitant to define or summarize any clear message of my works. “

                                                                                                                                                                                     -Tchunmo Nam-

Daegu Art Museum presents Tchunmo Nam’s exhibition titled From lines to landscapes as a part of an efforts to research, introduce and curate the trends of contemporary art. This exhibition is intended to take a glimpse at the works of Nam who has steadily pursued his career for 30years, which has been configured to analyze the fundamentals of forms exuding from his paintings to large installation works and to experience diversity in visual cognition in the contemporary art through aesthetic interpretation of the works. In this exhibition, it is noteworthy that he has tapped on various method of art—painting, sculpture, objects and installation—besides the two-dimensional works he has carried on for long, enabling us to get a taste of his willingness to seek for changes. In his artworks, Nam wants to describe facet of the nature created by modern civilization in the form of light-driven varying and moving colors. Another notable trait is that he thinks of line as magical element that can transform two-dimensional painting into three -dimensional artworks. He reveals in a interview that he wishes to develop and interpret lines in  a contemporary sense.

 

Tchunmo Nam

Jan. 23.2018 ~ May. 7.2018
Daegu Art Museum

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