Avant Garde Asia: Lines of Korean Masters

Avant Garde Asia: Lines of Korean Masters is a huge private selling exhibition of the avant garde movements in Korea.
Featuring more than 50 works, the exhibition offeres an in-depth examination of early experimental Asian art form from the 1950s through to the post-millennium era, showing the most comprehensive, museum-scale retrospective of the Korean Dansaekhwa art movement.

Dansaekhwa literally means ‘monochrome painting’ in Korean, and the term refers to the style of painting that arose during the second half of the 1970s in South Korea. Visually, Dansaekhwa ruptures from tradition and the past, becoming a new stylistic tendency in a significant period of time in Korean socio-political history. Superficially, its characteristics seem to point towards an assimilation and emulation of Western modernism, and a ‘liberation’ from the strict traditions of Korea’s artistic heritage.