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Take a look. Now, take another look, and what do you see, or more importantly, what do you feel? The recently launched solo exhibition by renowned Czech artist, Jan Kaláb, in Seoul, Korea at Regina Gallery strives to entice its viewer exactly this, and emotionally take you back to a memory, an experience, or, simply, a moment in your life, where you felt the same feels, emotions, and to move you in whichever way his work may.
“This exhibition is inspired by colors, and shapes which could be found in underwater life. So is the significance of the exhibit title refers to hidden, and very fragile treasures of mother nature. It is my first solo show with Regina gallery in Korea, though we’ve worked together for three years before this, however, due to the pandemic, naturally, our plans were postponed until this moment. This show encompasses entirely new work, and are paintings assembled from multiple canvases to create organic compositions; mostly, relief canvases, and one suspended installation,” says Jan about the show.
Regina gallery echoes Jan and says, “as the exhibition title suggests, Kaláb’s abstract paintings contain dreamy and otherworldly elements. Like encountering coral reefs in the open sea – his works offer a new excitement and guides viewers to a new world. The exhibition invites visitors to a mesmerizing and emotionally-moving celebration of color.”
“Beyond the Atolls” runs until June 10, 2023 at Regina Gallery, located at 10 Teheran-ro 25gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea.
ABOUT JAN KALÁB
Jan Kaláb was born in 1978 in Czechoslovakia and is one of the country’s most notable contemporary artists’ today. His creative roots are based in graffiti, street art, and murals and he is widely recognized within the founding pioneers of the Prague scene. Since then, Jan’s work has evolved to paintings, sculptures, and 3-D graffiti, and he has exhibited in high profile galleries around the world, including New York, Miami, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Jan’s work consistently explores new techniques and structures. Through geometrizing morphology, precise acrylic painting, and layered surfaces – he embarks on an analysis of space within a classic ideology, however, redirects the known into the unknown; into a new dimension. With an everlasting commitment, joy of playful discovery, and infinite possibilities, Jan Kaláb’s work is free and vaste. He lives and creates in Prague.
ABOUT REGINA GALLERY
The Regina Gallery is committed to working with private institutions, art collectors, corporations, and other dealers to progress the careers of the artists it represents. The gallery aims to provide an innovative forum for various kinds of art, presenting fine artworks of Korean and international contemporary artists. Working closely with curators, and leading intellectuals in the field, Regina Gallery presents its artists’ work on an international scale, and to firmly establish their contributions to art history in the 21st century and beyond.
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The Met presents the first exhibition to focus on Van Gogh’s Cypresses
From May 22 to August 27, 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “Van Gogh’s Cypresses”, the first show to focus on Vincent van Gogh’s Cypresses, one of the most famous motifs in modern art.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art · Image: Vincent van Gogh, “Starry Night”, 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The approximately 40 works including in the exhibition illuminates the extent of Van Gogh’s fascination with the region’s flamelike evergreens as they successively sparked, fueled, and stoked his imagination over the course of two years in the South of France: from his initial sightings of the “tall and dark” trees in Arles to realizing their full evocative potential (“as I see them”) at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. Iconic paintings such as Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night take their place as the centerpiece of this historic exhibition, which is only presented at The Met.
“The show is a dream come true,” said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. “Marking the 170th-anniversary year of his birth, this highly focused survey unpacks Van Gogh’s distinctive vision of the commanding cypress trees. A once-in-a-lifetime gathering of works presents both an overview and an intimate glimpse of his creative process, challenging prevailing notions with fresh insights.”
Juxtaposing landmark paintings with precious drawings and illustrated letters—many rarely, if ever, lent or exhibited together—this tightly conceived thematic exhibition offers an extraordinary opportunity to appreciate anew some of Van Gogh’s most celebrated works in a context that reveals the backstory of their invention for the first time.
Anchored by The Met’s Wheat Field with Cypressesand Cypresses, highlights of the exhibition includes The Starry Night(Museum of Modern Art, New York), A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (The National Gallery, London), and Country Road in Provence by Night (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo), as well as drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Susan Alyson Stein, Engelhard Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Painting at The Met, added: “To an extent that has gone unrecognized, Van Gogh brought his trademark ambition, determination, and a rare degree of consideration—and reconsideration—to giving signature form to the storied cypresses in works as striking for their originality as for their continuity of vision.”
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The Met presents the first exhibition to focus on Van Gogh’s Cypresses
From May 22 to August 27, 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “Van Gogh’s Cypresses”, the first show to focus on Vincent van Gogh’s Cypresses, one of the most famous motifs in modern art.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art · Image: Vincent van Gogh, “Starry Night”, 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The approximately 40 works including in the exhibition illuminates the extent of Van Gogh’s fascination with the region’s flamelike evergreens as they successively sparked, fueled, and stoked his imagination over the course of two years in the South of France: from his initial sightings of the “tall and dark” trees in Arles to realizing their full evocative potential (“as I see them”) at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. Iconic paintings such as Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night take their place as the centerpiece of this historic exhibition, which is only presented at The Met.
“The show is a dream come true,” said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. “Marking the 170th-anniversary year of his birth, this highly focused survey unpacks Van Gogh’s distinctive vision of the commanding cypress trees. A once-in-a-lifetime gathering of works presents both an overview and an intimate glimpse of his creative process, challenging prevailing notions with fresh insights.”
Juxtaposing landmark paintings with precious drawings and illustrated letters—many rarely, if ever, lent or exhibited together—this tightly conceived thematic exhibition offers an extraordinary opportunity to appreciate anew some of Van Gogh’s most celebrated works in a context that reveals the backstory of their invention for the first time.
Anchored by The Met’s Wheat Field with Cypressesand Cypresses, highlights of the exhibition includes The Starry Night(Museum of Modern Art, New York), A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (The National Gallery, London), and Country Road in Provence by Night (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo), as well as drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Susan Alyson Stein, Engelhard Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Painting at The Met, added: “To an extent that has gone unrecognized, Van Gogh brought his trademark ambition, determination, and a rare degree of consideration—and reconsideration—to giving signature form to the storied cypresses in works as striking for their originality as for their continuity of vision.”
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