About the work
Kŭmgangsan, in German "Diamond Mountain", is a mountain region within the Taebaeck Mountains on the east coast of North Korea and the border with South Korea. What makes the region special is that various rock formations have emerged through erosion. Its beauty has been famous for centuries and is a tourist attraction.
About the artist
born 1965 in Onyang, Korea
lives and works in Duesseldorf and Seoul
Jongsuk Yoon, who has lived in Europe since 1995, studied at the Kunstakademie Münster, the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf als well as at the Chelsea College of Art in London.
Stylistically, Jongsuk Yoon belongs to the new Abstract Expressionism. In her monumental, colourful paintings, the artist blends the traditions of Asian formal language and aesthetics with European painting traditions. Through overlapping, interpenetrating colour forms and different colour textures that allow the painting process to be understood, poetic, light-flooded landscapes full of tranquillity and gentleness emerge before the viewer's eye.