Alexander Calder changed the course of modern art with his three-dimensional kinetic sculptures, which Marcel Duchamp named “mobiles.” Resonating with tenets of Futurism, Constructivism, and early non-objective painting, Calder’s mobiles consist of boldly colored abstract shapes, which are made from industrial materials and hang in lyrical balance. Calder was an international phenomenon during his lifetime. He won the grand prize for sculpture at the 1952 Venice Biennale, where he represented the United States. He earned the French Legion of Honor and the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, among other honors. Calder has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and the Museo Reina Sofía. His work regularly sells for eight figures on the secondary market. Though Calder is best known for his mobiles, his diverse practice also encompassed standing sculpture, painting, set and costume design, large-scale public installation, and jewelry-making.

Alum Lee uses patterns commonly found in the fashion industry, such as dots, stripes, and checks, to move between flatness and illusion, distorting the screen, and revealing flatness through pictorial traces. Through this, she evokes latent data about space, deconstructing and recombining them once again, overlapping layers to produce complex processes of work.

It is composed mainly of new paintings and object-based works.

Kyukun Kang depicts the narrative in the uncertainty of daily life, which consists of light and darkness. After completing a bachelor's degree in Western painting at Gachon University and a master's degree in Western painting at Sungkyunkwan University, he has continued to draw unpredictable scenarios on canvas. His work, which reflects ordinary daily life and characters, includes clear contrary between light and shadow. Through an anxious, dreamy, and melancholy atmosphere, the artist takes the audience into their inherent stories. As a beginning point for his paintings he uses people's unstable features exposed to an unpredictable future, thereby inspiring people's imagination of events that would occur after the scene. 

Joonun Kim expresses the inherent anxieties in everyday landscapes through painting. Assuming that personal lives are a result influenced by social structures, she documents the strangeness derived from minor aspects. Instead of showcasing anxiety and trauma directly in her works, she subtly captures the landscapes left behind afterward. In this surreal space-time, questioning whether it's reality or a dream, she maintains a sharp perspective by observing her surroundings. To avoid being swept into apathy or making rash judgments about situations, she disciplines himself to maintain a moderate level of objectivity. Her major exhibitions include the solo exhibition "Time Dilation" (2022, Sahngup Gallery), and group exhibitions "And Live" (2021, Art Space Mullae), and "Mind Sculpture" (2021, BGA).

Jo Heejin explores structures of relation and harmony through the repetition and variation of the circle. By joining together small, thin ceramic discs one by one, the artist visualises how each unit’s particular grain and thickness accumulate into an ordered and harmonious whole.
These circular clay elements shift subtly with fingertip pressure and the material’s response; gathered together, those differences produce a surface that seems to breathe like a living organism, forming an organic structure. In Jo’s work, circular repetition is not a mere replication of form but an act that forges relationships by accommodating the other.
At every seam where they meet, a warmth is conveyed—as if the surfaces hold and draw one another in. For Jo, the circle as a “unit” is both an independent entity and the minimal language of coexistence, embracing difference to form a shared landscape.

Sculptor, performer, photographer, architect, curator and blogger, he is known internationally for his provocative and political art. He is an opposition figure to the Chinese government and an emblem of freedom of expression in China, openly criticizing the Chinese government’s position on democracy and human rights. Ai was among the first generation of students to study abroad following China’s reform in 1980, and lived in the United States from 1981 to 1993, attending the Arts Students League of New York, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. OGAY is a street artist from Taiwan, and is a self-proclaimed angry youth filled with love. He has been invited to Japan, China, New York, and more, for graffiti projects. His graffiti art motif mostly features a naked man who is under-dressed. Since stepping into the world of graffiti in 2000, his work has saturated walls all over Taiwan, and he consequently sets the record as the most frequently reported artist in Taiwanese history.


Tat or Nattee Sujithara was born in Bangkok in 1983. He received a Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts in Painting from Chiang Mai University in 2006. After graduation, he opened a solo exhibition ‘Color of Life’ at Neilson Hays Library in Bangkok in 2009. He later took on many portraiture and illustration projects, and also worked on ideas for next exhibitions. With more experiences in an art world, he decided to be a full-time professional artist and opened his second solo exhibition ‘Circle of Thought’ at The Meeting Room Art Gallery in 2019. He received the Triennale Prize in Drawing Category from the 5th Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing Exhibition, at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre in Bangkok. He currently works and resides with his family in Chiang Mai. 


An artist working in Seoul, South Korea. Studied painting and art history at Ewha Womans University and graduated the Graduate school with a master’s and Ph.D. degree as well. Solo exhibitions include ‘Manifesting Blacks 發玄’ (Seongnam Cube Art Museum, 2019), ‘Fire & Waves’ (Cheongju Art Studio, 2020), and ‘Esquisse Symphony’ (Sahng-up Gallery, 2022).” Selected for Arts Council Korea’s The First Application in the Life of an Young Artist (2023) and named ONSO ARTIST by Hyundai-CMK Foundations (2022), Artist-in-residence for the 14th term at the Cheongju Art Studio (2020). Recipient of the Outstanding Thesis Award twice for master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation on own artworks.

Salvo was an Italian Conceptual artist that transitioned from producing austere sculptures to painting richly colored depictions of the Italian countryside. Born Salvatore Mangione on May 22, 1947 in Leonforte, Italy, he became associated with artists of the Arte Povera movement during the late 1960s, meeting Alighiero Boetti, Mario Merz, Gilberto Zorio, and Guiseppe Penone, while living in Turin. Originally achieving recognition for his text-based works—which consisted of his name or a tombstone for himself—Salvo began painting in 1973. Characterized by simplified forms reminiscent of the early Modern avant-garde. These dream-like scenes like are reminiscent of the Italian Metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico. In 1977, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany gave the artist his first retrospective. He died in Turin, Italy on September 12, 2015 at the age of 68.

Bae Bien U(b. 1950) holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hongik University's School of Applied Art, and has remained internationally active since his first solo exhibition in 1982. In 2006, he was the first Asian photographer to hold a solo exhibition at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Spain, and was commissioned by the Spanish government to film the garden of the Alhambra(Granada, Spain), a world heritage site, for two years. Bae continued to hold large-scale solo exhibitions at venues that range from the Gwangju Museum of Art(2015), the Musée d'art moderne de Saint-etienne(France, 2015), and the Château de Chambord(France, 2015~2016) to the Wilmotte Foundation(Venice, Italy, 2022). He was awarded Lee Jung-sub Arts Award in 2016 and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts & Lettres from the French government in 2017.

Jojo Anavim is an American contemporary artist recognized for transforming the language of consumer culture and brand imagery into a distinctive artistic vocabulary. Drawing from his background in graphic design and marketing, Anavim incorporates familiar logos, advertising icons, and cultural symbols into his work, reassembling them with expressive brushwork and layered textures. His paintings capture both nostalgia and critique, reflecting on how mass media and consumer goods shape collective memory and personal identity. By merging commercial aesthetics with painterly gestures, Anavim situates his practice at the intersection of popular culture and fine art, continuing the legacy of contemporary pop art while infusing it with his own autobiographical narratives.

Seung Eui Hyun, who majored in Oriental painting at Seoul National University, has continued to explore nature and space. Born and raised in Jeju Island, the artist reconstructs the tourism industry, the non-verbalized romanticism it incites, and the narratives hidden beneath the surface with a cynical perspective. She reveals the logic of capital operating beyond idealized landscapes and addresses environmental and social issues through her dense paintings. By presenting today's scenery as multi-layered images, the artist exposes the anxiety at the point where reality and romanticism intersect and collide. By depicting various phenomena within this gap, she lays bare the emptiness of the saturated modern world.

Molly Greene is an American painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Before devoting herself to art, she spent ten years studying. In 2013, she received a Master of Environmental Science (MESc) degree from Yale University. In 2019, she completed a PhD in American Studies, also at Yale University. During her many years of study, she focused on a variety of topics such as gender and sexuality, post-humanism or animal studies, among others.
She began exhibiting her work as an artist in 2018 in the United States.


 Artist MAWZ has been drawn to Disney animation films and cartoons since childhood. While studying Fine Arts at Chung-ang University, the artist created a character to represent himself and painted the world through its eyes. The artist’s artistic stage name, MAWZ, is named after the character from his early work. His birth dream of sharks and the movie <JAWS> inspired its naming. 

 

The artist's work explores surrealism and symbolism, conveying messages of reality's absurdity, personal concerns, social situations, and aspirations. His work conveys social, cultural, and personal concerns through the use of symbolic imagery, featuring poetic symbolism and animated expressions. The symbols used include envelopes, ribbons, and eagles, and their meanings can be interpreted in different ways based on the viewer's perspective. His recent work revolves around exploring the absurdity of reality and social issues. He continuously experiments with new materials and conducts thorough research on the subject's background or history to add more depth to his work. 

 

The artist’s defining characteristic is his use of Matière, which is conveyed through simple and implicit expressions with cheerful colors and thick brushstrokes of paint. Before starting any artwork, the artist meticulously documents the content or stories he intends to convey. He draws inspiration and motivation from his imagination, surroundings, and personal experiences to depict his unique perspective in his work. His recent work emphasizes background and three-dimensional elements over characters and icons from his earlier pieces, adding depth and highlighting the message. His animated style and expressions capture deep concerns across diverse subjects and allow for varied interpretations among viewers.

 

The artist is experimenting with various mediums to refine and develop his style and expressed a desire to expand into creating more three-dimensional work, in addition to his current focus on two-dimensional paintings. The artist previously collaborated with various brands, including McDonald's, Volkswagen, Cass, and SM Entertainment, to communicate with the public. MAWZ uses the process of creating art as a means to illustrate his personal exploration of the future unknown. He seeks to share his journey with the audience to spread positive energy and convey optimistic promises of life. 

I am constantly in search of people and places that bring me a sense of stability. In life, I am always confronted with certain thresholds where I long for steadiness. At those boundaries, I find myself seeking environments and situations that help me maintain a calm emotional state. Most of these are familiar to me: my family, my home, my room, and the surroundings that have held me for a long time. When I ask myself where the process of being filled and forming a sense of self first began, I cannot leave out home and family. I hold close to my heart the softness and warmth of these things, and the precious moments at home where I can express my feelings honestly. In doing so, I try to preserve a quiet emotional balance. It was only natural, then, that the act of painting and the choice of what to paint began with what was closest to me. As I step into the home and room marked by my own traces, I find myself covering over the unstable emotions I could not express outside, and recovering a sense of calm and peace. I capture in my paintings the blue wallpaper close to my body, the scattered blue clothes, the blue blankets and pillows—objects that bear the touch of my hand. Along with them, I try to hold within the painting the tactile sensations of these things against the skin, as well as the emotions of those moments: the comfort, warmth, and tenderness that arise from familiarity.

The feeling of fur brushing between my toes,
the rush of air when my father lifts the blanket high and lets it fall while I am lying down,
the snug warmth of tucking the blanket tightly around my body,
the feeling of touching the cool temperature that has settled into the pillow because of the wind outside,
the soft texture of an old blanket worn thin with holes,
a pair of socks turned inside out on the floor,
the faint sunlight slipping through the blinds,
the sunlight and brightness that reach me as I lie down,
the moon visible through the window before sleep...

I gather these emotions and sensations from my own place and wrap them together, trying to paint their atmosphere and energy. In the process of expression, the act of applying materials softly onto hanji, or tearing its surface to reveal its delicate fibres, has itself become a process through which I find emotional calm. Through the repeated gestures of laying down thick layers of paint and scraping them away, or raising the surface of the hanji, I attempt to convey indirectly a kind of fluffy, tender warmth even through the material surface itself.
Ultimately, I hope that a painting, shaped by the attitude revealed in both the subject I look at and the process of making, can become a bearer of warmth—something held close at one’s side—and that the scope of this warmth may gradually expand.

Rizal Hasan
b.1992, Gresik, Indonesia

Graduated from Indonesia Institute Of The Arts Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is currently based in Sewon, Bantul, D.I Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Artist selected solo exhibition: “POP Script : Encoding The Everyday” 2021 Indie Art House Yogyakarta; Special Art Project with Jogja Affordable Art at Jogja Art Gallery, 2022; ARTJOG 2022; ARTJAKARTA 2022.

Haafiz Shahimi (b.1986) known as APIS, whose interdisciplinary work spans through printmaking and performance art. APIS began exploring pyrography print in 2014, developing a unique style rooted in Malaysian print and textile traditions. Inspired by batik printing, he created metal matrices depicting cultural and mythological imagery, heated and applied to surfaces like canvas and jute. His experimental approach to temperature variations led him to explore new pyrographic techniques, blending art with scientific principles of thermodynamics. APIS’s work often delves into dualities—science and mythology, East and West, physics and philosophy—establishing him as a boundary-pushing figure in contemporary Malaysian art.

Through his innovative techniques, including pyrography, inverted burn, and direct chemical and petrol burns, APIS has introduced a unique fusion of traditional and industrial materials to his practice. Recently, he combined automotive paint with pyrographic methods to produce vibrant, reflective pieces for Art Central Hong Kong, creating visuals with accidental markings and intentional deconstruction. After a decade, he also returned to the meticulous process of rod-based pyrography to evoke the appearance of charcoal lines, as seen in his recent work, "Desire", which showcases the culmination of his 13-year journey. APIS's impact lies in his transformative approach, which continues to challenge conventional art practices and redefine the scope of Malaysian contemporary art.

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