Art salon de H
Jeung Hyun
<목판 변주곡. woodblock variations>
Novembre 4th - December 29th, 2025
Opening: November 5, 2025 (Wed) at 5:00 PM
Artist in Residence: November 4–8, 2025
Art Lecture: “Art History at Noon / Understanding Modern and Contemporary Korean Art”
November 12 (Wed) at 2:00 PM | Speaker: Hee-Kyung Song, Director of Gyeomjae Jeongseon Museum of Art
Book Talk: “Tea in Everyday Life / The Humanities in a Cup of Tea”
November 8 (Fri) at 2:00 PM | Speaker: So-Yeon Kim
Venue: Art Salon de H
(B1, Shinyoung Securities Building, 16 Gukjegeumyung-ro 8-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul)
Art Salon de H presents Woodblock Variations, a solo exhibition by artist Hyun Jeung, who has expanded the realm of woodblock printmaking between tradition and contemporary art.
L’Art de Noël 2025 — A Winter Gift Shaped by French Art
Exhibition Introduction (English)
L’Art de Noël 2025 – A Winter Gift Shaped by French Art brings together the depth and richness of French artistry across three distinct yet harmoniously resonant media: painting, porcelain, and gemstone sculpture. The works of renowned French contemporary painter Michèle Taupin illuminate the exhibition with mythic narratives and layered chromatic resonances that reflect the emotional landscapes of the human interior. Complementing this, Limoges porcelain, long celebrated for its heritage of exquisite craftsmanship, lends the exhibition a sense of refined timelessness.
Adding a contemporary sculptural dimension, Korean-French artist Myung Sun Joo presents gemstone works carved from natural rock salt, revealing the pure light and elemental structure embedded within the material. Her pieces introduce a new artistic language that expands the atmosphere of the space.
Together, these distinct sensibilities converge in a resonant harmony, offering visitors a deeply enriching and beautifully immersive encounter—an experience that enhances the special spirit of the year’s end.
프랑스 현대 회화의 대가, 미셀 또빵(Michèle Taupin)
At the heart of this exhibition are the paintings of Michèle Taupin, one of the leading figures of the contemporary French art scene.
Although her depictions of the female body are grounded in realistic anatomy, the figures rest quietly within abstract, dreamlike spaces, evoking the timeless presence of classical sculpture. Rather than illustrating a specific narrative, her works symbolically express a “féminité intemporelle” — a femininity that transcends time.
Taupin’s canvases are characterized by bold color fields and geometric lines that create a rhythmic visual structure, contrasted with the soft curves of the female form. This interplay reflects her contemporary reinterpretation of the chromatic harmony deeply embedded in the French painting tradition. The fusion of classical volume, constructivist restraint, and mythic temporality results in a distinctive aesthetic where past and present, the real and the unreal, subtly intersect.
Myung Sun Joo’s Rock-Salt Gemstone Works
Rock-salt gemstones are created by reinterpreting naturally formed salt crystals through the artist’s hand, allowing the material to be reborn as if it were self-generating within a newly constructed crystalline interior. Within these serene structures, the salt regains its inherent vitality, responding to light and space with subtle shifts that reveal its quiet, ever-changing breath.
Joo’s rock-salt gemstones are both a sculptural experiment that renews the temporal and energetic qualities of natural matter and an artistic jewel that embodies the profound presence of a living crystalline form.
