In Dialog is Sorol Art Museum’s project exhibition planned to illuminate the art historical context of Korean art and global art. In this exhibition, the artistic dialog between the works of Agnes Martin and Chung Sang-Hwa.

Chung Sang-Hwa is a representative of Korea’s monochrome abstract painting movement, Dansaekhwa, and his body of work makes a worthy companion to Agnes Martin’s. Agnes Martin was expressing her inspiration from meditation in a painterly language full of poetic sensitivity. Around the same time, monochrome abstract painting was building an important movement in Korea alongside experimental art.

Having spent much of his life in Japan and France, Chung was one of the leading abstract painters in Korean contemporary art scene. He actively engaged in the avant-garde movement and rebellious artistic experimentation of the 1960s. By the 1970s, he had developed the white geometric abstractions that distilled and concentrated his oeuvre on canvas. This exhibition presents a selection of Chung’s most restrained and refined white abstractions as a way of exploring his work and its aesthetic relationship with Agnes Martin’s.