From Wednesday, 26 March on, galerie son is showing both two North Korean artists - SIM Kwang Chol and PAK Hyon Chol - and three South Korean artists - Kwang LEE, Junggeun OH and KWUN Sun Cheol. This extraordinary exhibition gives you the opportunity to compare artists from a divided country, united by a common past and traditions but having been trained and living and working in totally different ways.
Although looking at first sight very different, these painters have some similarities in their approaches: the heightened sensibility regarding atmosphere created by light in the landscape, the ambiguity between the real and the imagined and the subtle questioning of the role of architecture. These artists tackle borders of different kinds as their subject matter.
