Kim Gunhee, Eol-eol Deol-deol, 1980, Screen print on paper, 40.5 x 34.5cm ©Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMOMA) will present The Map and The Territory, an exhibition of new acquisitions, from September 19, 2023, to March 24, 2024.
The exhibition will feature a total of 42 works and three archives from the GMOMA’s collection on the five artists Kim Gunhee, Kim Jungheon, Min Jungki, Gong Sunghoon, and Jung Jaechul.
Kim Gunhee, Kim Jungheon, and Min Jungki were the founding members of the group ‘Reality & Utterance,’ which was active in the 1980s. GMOMA explores the trends of their works in the 1980s, focusing on a selection of their early works. Kim Gunhee’s < Eol-eol Deol-deol > (1980), an entry in the exhibition of Reality and Utterance, depicts a newspaper advertisement featuring three women with ice cream in a newspaper article about the conspiracy of a rebellion. Kim Jungheon’s < Rainbow Factory > (1980) depicts workers squeezed inside a rainbow. Min Jungki’s < People > is a collection of 11 single-sheet prints that are bound together into a book that illustrates everyday life in the 1980s. In the case of Gong Sunghoon, the museum will focus on his ‘The Dog’ series from the collection, and in the case of Jung Jaechul, the museum will study his wood carvings from the early 2000s, based on his < 3rd Silk Road Project – Route Map Drawing > (2010), collected in 2022.
As the exhibition is based on collections and research on the five artists, it also presents a research project in which five researchers, including an artist, journalist, and curators, each studied one artist during the exhibition.
