Opening time：September 12, 5 P.M
Duration: 2012.09.12 -- 2012.10.07
Location: Exhibition Hall 2, 2nd Floor

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea, the Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea and the Today Art Museum in Beijing, China have jointly planned the exhibition, Mudeung Tales which is of an omnibus storyline akin to that of a movie plot. Gwangju, Korea's cradle of the arts, possesses many important traces of its nation's turbulent modern and post-modern history, and Damyang and Hwasun of Jeonnam province had produced the Chosun dynasty's most prominent tradition of lyrical literature and pavilion culture, offering a distinctly stylish culture of classical scholars and innumerable stories of the common folk embraced by and hidden in their beautiful fields and mountains.

     Korea has many breathtaking mountains as some 70% of its land mass is mountainous. Of them, Mt.Mudeungis a great Korean mountain that crosses into Gwangju, Damyang and Hwasun and, possessing the roots of a long history and diverse cultural and artistic activities, has tucked away countless stories in changing with the times to this day. Among them are many stories, such as myths, legends, folk tales, etc., that have been passed down since a distant time ago.

      Those things are in progress, passing through the past and present, and will continue to produce new tales in the future as well. They will possess the historic and social qualities of an era and are sometimes an important resource for scholarship. The arts can be said to ultimately evolve through the application of, and contact with, such things as these.

      The <Mudeung Tales> exhibition becomes a gathering of nine precious stories from around Mt.Mudeung, thus being of three acts- the stories of Gwangju, Damyang and Hwasun- and coalesce into one theme of Mudeung within a larger frame to complete the exhibition. Participating artists capture the past or produce new fictions through a liberal arts approach, investigation or interpretation. 11 artists will representKoreain the exhibition and display various works including those of painting, video and installation, etc. which promise to be an example of truly fine contemporary Korean art.

Han Chang-yun, Zheng Yan.

Lee Lee Nam Chung Woonhak Jo Gwangik Kim Sangyeon Son Bongchae Choi Jaeyoung Park Sungtae Shin Hoyoon Jin Siyon Park Sobin Lee Jeonglok