Jongsuk Yoon - Encounter of two worlds

In the large-format paintings of the Korean-born, Düsseldorf-based artist, the tradition of European landscape painting meets the Asian style of painting in a rich contrast. The color fields, which sometimes overlap in transparent lightness, are sometimes applied smoothly, sometimes with clearly visible brushstrokes, creating dreamlike landscapes that have no content other than themselves and thus tell no story. In Jongsuk Yoon's paintings, time stands still, making them a places to linger. Three landscape paintings have now been purchased for the Viehof Collection, including the work entitled "Kumgangsan", which is named after a mountainous region within the Taebaek Mountains on the east coast of North Korea and the border with South Korea and refers specifically to the artist's roots.

 

Meuser

The Viehof Collection, to which around 1,500 works are currently affiliated, continues to pursue the continuous expansion. In doing so, the collector family aims not only to acquire artists on a one-off basis, but also to follow up on their oeuvre and to add to earlier works and fill gaps as required.

In addition to the first acquisition of works by artists such as Sarah Morris and Jongsuk Yoon, the Meuser portfolio was also supplemented with a current work at the beginning of 2024. The first acquisitions of Meuser's works took place in the early 2000s. The existing 10 artworks has now been expanded to include the work "Windhose" from 2020.

 

A new position for the Viehof Collection

More than 20 works by Dieter Nuhr are now in the private possession of the Viehof family. This konvolut, which has been expanded over the past few years and finely selected from various groups of works, will now officially be made available to the collection.

Dieter Nuhr has long been one of Germany's best-known satirists. In contrast, probably only a few people know that after studying art with a focus on painting, he devoted himself to photography. The works are created on his travels through remote and exotic places around the world, which Nuhr captures in an almost archival manner.

"In the course of my exploration of living space while traveling, I make a picture of the world. To look around, to see, to experience, to archive, there is the meaning of traveling as of life. We move through time and space, experience, act and remember," says Dieter Nuhr.

But Nuhr's photographs are more than snapshots of places and objects. Through subjectively chosen cropping and image composition, the artist creates independent images, detached from the material context, that seem closer to abstract painting than to photography. Nuhr refers to this transformation as "digital painting." The photographic work becomes more than a mere image. Poetically charged, Nuhr's images combine what is seen with subjective memories and ideas. Image of reality, real materiality and intangible unreal interact.

The artist explains, "A picture is a reflection surface. The image of the landscape is the occasion for conscious perception and association. What the viewer takes away from the picture and what thoughts he develops is up to him. Art is always just a suggestion."

 

 

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