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Edited by Laure Schwartz-Arenales<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Texts by Laure Schwartz-Arenales, Pierre Cambon, Philippe Clerc, Karelle M\u00e9nine, Ji Young Demol Park, Lee Lee Nam, and Ma\u00ebl Bellec<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

To celebrate the 60<\/span>th<\/span> anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and South Korea, <\/span>this volume offers a unique point of view on the work of two contemporary Korean artists, Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam, and their take on landscapes, particularly mountain views.<\/p>\n

The evocation of nature unfolds through connections interwoven over the centuries between culture and objects, materials, colors, and motifs. Jade- and pine-colored decorated ceramics, cobalt oxide for the horizon, porcelain white as snow or the moon, all feature in the work of both artists, their gazes meeting and reflecting in the landscapes of a great painter of old, <\/span>Jeong Seon<\/b> (1676-1759).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite all their differences, the mountains rendered in ink by Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam\u2019s virtual landscapes are truly united by the uniqueness of their relationship with this cultural heritage as well as the strength of their individual universes, oriented towards the re-enchantment of nature. Like Jeong Seon, the painter of \u201cauthentic landscapes\u201d and of the Diamond Mountains, both artists refer to and ceaselessly combine a vast body of works that extends far beyond their homeland, transforming their interpretation of mountains into a means of meditation, a revelatory connection with the beauty of the world past and present.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Laure Schwartz-Arenales<\/b> has a degree from the \u00c9cole du Louvre and a doctorate from the Paris-Sorbonne University. She began her career at the Mus\u00e9e national des arts asiatiques \u2013 Guimet and at the \u00c9cole du Louvre where she taught Far-Eastern Art. In 2007, the Kajima Foundation for the Arts gave her an award for her research on Japanese painting (T\u014dhoku University, Kyoto National Museum). She was a professor at Ochanomizu University and then at Sophia University (Tokyo), and since 2018 she has been the director of the Fondation Baur, Mus\u00e9e des Arts d’Extr\u00eame-Orient in Geneva.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pierre Cambon<\/b> was responsible for the Korean collection of the Mus\u00e9e national des arts asiatiques – Guimet (1992-2022) and has curated several exhibitions, for which he also wrote the catalogs:<\/span> Nostalgies cor\u00e9ennes<\/span><\/i> (2001); <\/span>Itami Jun<\/span><\/i> (2003); <\/span>La Po\u00e9sie de l’encre<\/span><\/i> (2005); <\/span>Cinq si\u00e8cles de peinture en Cor\u00e9e<\/span><\/i> (2015). A consultant for the World Heritage Center, he has carried out missions in Pyongyang (1999-2000) and was a cultural attach\u00e9 at the French embassy in Korea (1988-1992).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Philippe Clerc<\/b> is an art historian with a degree from the University of Fribourg. He worked for the auction house Christie\u2019s and later for several Swiss and international collectors. Specialized in Swiss painting from the 19th and 20th century, he does research on the artists from Geneva and Fribourg who were close to Ferdinand Hodler, a subject on which he has published several volumes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Karelle M\u00e9nine<\/b> is a Swiss historian and writer based in Geneva. Her work explores her relationship with literature and archives through plays, essays, and installations. Her two most recent works were published by M\u00e9tisPresses: <\/span>Bleuir l’immensit\u00e9<\/span><\/i> (2022) and <\/span>Labor et Fides: Nimbe noir<\/span><\/i> (2022). She is also the director of M\u00e9tisPresses\u2019s collection \u201cArchVives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ji Young Demol Park<\/b> is an artist trained in Korea, France, and Switzerland. In 2012 she returned to her first expressive medium: drawing, water, and pigments. From the shores of Lake Geneva to the Alpine ridges, she offers us her vision of the mountains of her homeland, Korea. An <\/span>en plein air<\/span><\/i> painter, she never travels without her sketchbook, a scroll or a Leporello. With a vigorous mark and few washes, she records her emotions as she contemplates the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Lee Nam<\/b> is acknowledged as one of the most important video artists of his generation. He was born in 1969 in Gwangju, in South Korea. He obtained a doctorate in fine arts from Chosun University where he studied sculpture, and a doctorate from Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Communication and Art. An animation virtuoso, he reinterprets the greatest masterpieces of world painting. His approach to landscape painting is poetic and oneiric, a form of meditation, a revealing connection to the beauty of the world past and present.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ma\u00ebl Bellec<\/b> is the curator responsible for the Chinese and Korean collections of Mus\u00e9e Cernuschi. He has organized several exhibitions devoted to modern and contemporary art. He has curated or co-curated: <\/span>The Lingnan School: The Awakening of Modern China<\/span><\/i>; <\/span>Seoul-Paris-Seoul: Korean Artists in France<\/span><\/i>; <\/span>Lee Ungno, l’homme des foules<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Walasse Ting, le voleur de fleurs<\/span><\/i>; <\/span>Bang Hai Ja: Et la mati\u00e8re devint lumi\u00e8re<\/span><\/i>; <\/span>L’encre en mouvement: Une histoire de la peinture chinoise au XX<\/span><\/i>e <\/span><\/i>si\u00e8cle<\/span><\/i>, as well as the various editions of the video art program of Mus\u00e9e Cernuschi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition:\u00a0<\/span>Fondation Baur, Mus\u00e9e des Arts d’Extr\u00eame-Orient, Geneva,\u00a0<\/span>March 20 \u2013 June 30, 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n