Jan 16, 2025 03:04 PM IST
Artists Hyungmee Lee, Hyunwook Park, Jain Gu and Youngbin Lee from South Korea are on their debut go to to India with the agenda to advertise Korean artwork.
4 artists from South Korea are on their debut go to to India with the agenda to advertise Korean artwork. Hyungmee Lee, Hyunwook Park, Jain Gu and Youngbin Lee are holding portray exhibition Saranghae at Kala Srot Artwork Gallery right here.
Hyungmee Lee, Hyunwook Park, Jain Gu and Youngbin Lee from South Korea with chief visitor Jai Kishan Agarwal
“K-pop and K-dramas are very popular in India. So, we hope that K-art will also catch up soon. Art lovers were very interested in our art form. There are many similarities in our hearts and minds, only the landscape and streets are different,” says Jain Gu, 30.
“I have paintings that I made in Korea and here in India. I painted cows on the ghats of Varanasi and people in a marketplace of Lucknow. We have many elements of India in our paintings.”
Park, 40, says, “I have done exhibitions in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and France… We were also in Varanasi and our paintings show the aspects of the ghats there and of Lucknow.”
The youngest of the 4, Youngben, says, “We are all from Seoul and got together after we were selected for a month-long residency programme.” Hyungmee Lee says that the essence of life and dying that she noticed on the cremation grounds in Varanasi left a terrific impression on her.
Famend artist and former principal of Faculty of Arts and Craft Prof JK Agarwal inaugur-ated the exhibition within the presence of different artwork lovers.
Mansi Didwania of the artwork gallery says, “Rather than focusing on monuments, these artists captured the finer aspects of life and other essence of the city.”
The exhibition will finish on January 17.
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