Latest Events in Yongin-si(September Updated)

The Hoam Art Museum presents Dust, the largest survey exhibition to date of Swiss artist Nicolas Fatty's oeuvre. The exhibition presents 48 of the artist's existing paintings and sculptures, 20 new paintings, and five pastel murals created specifically for the exhibition, alongside works from the Rijksmuseum's antiquities collection. Party graffitied from an early age, studied film, graphic design, and 3D animation in college, and formed an artist collective to create exhibitions and performances that fused art, music, and performance. While his work has since centered on painting, this multidisciplinary experience informs his practice, which encompasses murals, painted sculpture, and holistic installation and exhibition curation. For Nicolas Party, art history is an invaluable treasure trove and archive for inspiration, and he freely references a wide range of artists, motifs, styles, and materials from ancient to modern and contemporary art history to create his own unique imagery. In particular, he reinterprets traditional genres of painting such as landscape, still life, and portraiture by invoking pastel painting, which has been forgotten since its popularity in Europe in the 18th century. With vivid colors, simple forms, and unfamiliar imagery, his work is at once familiar and elusive, oscillating between lightness and profundity, humor and seriousness. The exhibition's title, “Dust,” connects to Party's work, which embraces the inherent qualities of pastel as a primary mode and subject of painterly representation. Easily dispersed into the air, “like the dust on a butterfly's wing,” pastel is an extremely fragile and ephemeral material. For Party, pastel painting is a 'mask of dust', an illusion, like makeup, and the giant pastel murals he paints directly on the walls of museums are destined to exist only for the duration of the exhibition and then disappear. He extends this ontological instability of pastels to reflections on the endurance and disappearance of human and non-human species, civilization and nature.

Hoam Museum of Art presents Dust, the largest survey exhibition of Swiss artist Nicolas Party's oeuvre to date. Showcasing 48 of the artist's existing paintings and sculptures and 20 new paintings, the exhibition also includes five large scale pastel murals created especially for the occasion, alongside key works from the Leeum Museum of Art's collection of traditional art and antiquities. Immersing himself in the world of graffiti since his childhood, and studying film, graphic design, and 3D animation in college, Party even once formed an artist collective that organized exhibitions and engagements fusing art, music and performance. Though the majority of his work has centered around painting since then, his multidisciplinary background informs his practice overall, ranging from murals, painted sculptures, total installations to exhibition curation.

Everland will open Blood City, a horror-themed area created in collaboration with global entertainment streaming service Netflix, on September 6. At Blood City in Everland, which runs for two months until November 17, you can immerse yourself in popular Netflix series such as Our School Now and Stranger Things through a variety of five-sensory experiences. Although Netflix Experience Zones have long been operated in Korea as pop-up stores featuring new works, it is the first time that a complex experience zone integrating space production, performances, events, and dining has been presented as a comprehensive experience zone integrating space production, performances, events, and dining, and that merchandise is sold in a large outdoor venue such as Everland using multiple TV series IPs. First launched in 2017, Blood City is a large outdoor theme area that represents the autumn season of Everland, and has become a mecca for horror experiences for the MZ generation by introducing new stories and unique collaborations every year. Blood City 8 is entering its eighth season this year, adding collaborations with multinational companies such as Netflix and Samsung Electronics to the horror tradition accumulated over the years to provide a more intuitive and story-based customer experience. To this end, Everland has vividly created a bloody city covering an area of ​​approximately 10,000 square meters, with a scale reminiscent of a movie set, so that customers can immerse themselves in Netflix's popular IPs such as "Jiwoohak" and "Stranger Things". In addition to the overwhelming scale of the design production that triggers a desire for sample sheets, there are also a variety of experience projects that allow customers to experience Netflix IPs as immersively as the protagonists of the drama. The special stage hosts the eponymous performance "Now Our School is LIVE" every night, recreating the Netflix original story about the students of Hyosan High School escaping the spread of the zombie virus. This is the first live performance in Korea inside Blood City. In Blood City, you can not only dress up as a zombie in the Hyosan High School uniform, but also taste the special menu at Netflix IP concept restaurants such as the Hyosan High School cafeteria (Jiwoohak) and the Scoops Ahoy ice cream truck (Stranger Things) and various collaboration goods can also be seen.

The author's works express the inner and complex emotions of human beings and raise questions about human nature. The author explores the various emotions and inner world that modern people value most through the instinctive "feelings" of the subconscious. The new series "Portraits" presented in this exhibition breaks away from traditional forms, emphasizes surreal expressions and dark colors, and expresses human emotions through distorted faces and eyes. In people's lives, emotions are mostly conveyed through the eyes, but in his works, the eyes appear as an indescribable focus. The author's inner heart and sincere emotions are revealed, seeking comfort in emptiness and silence. His emotions come from a special state of self-awareness, which makes us face our lost nature and the duality of life. These distortions of reality make us think deeply about the complexity of human nature, help us understand the inner aspects of life, and bring the audience into the unconscious world expressed through emotions. I hope that through this exhibition, everyone can feel the contradictory emotions in the subconscious that the artist talks about.

The painting world of Jeong Sun (1676-1759), who is known as a representative painter in the history of Korean painting and a master of true landscape painting, will be presented in a large-scale special exhibition at the Hoam Art Museum. This exhibition displays about 165 representative works of Jeong Sun, covering landscape painting, figure painting, flower and bird feather painting and other themes, fully demonstrating his colorful and diverse artistic style.