This piece originates from an accidental glitch encountered during the pixel art creation process. Traditionally, pixels are expected to be symmetrical, with clearly defined front and side perspectives. However, this work challenges that convention, seeking to expand the boundaries of pixel art expression. Despite its distorted forms, the piece retains a deep affection for the artist’s muse—‘Moha, the cat from home.’ Embracing unexpected transformations, it explores new possibilities within the realm of pixel art while celebrating the unique beauty that emerges from serendipity.

The Same ‘Moha’ 3

Artist Statement (Excerpt from 2023-24 Artist Notebook)

As an artist in a modern society accustomed to digital screens and colors, I have been deeply immersed in exploring how to express landscapes through digital and painting mediums.

In <Landscape Elements>, each natural object can be seen as an extreme expression of atmospheric colors, light materials like clouds, dense foliage, or the dawn. My perspective is to show a two-dimensional expression and space, which is intuitively reflected when I first sketch out my composition. In the refining process, I focus on creating natural objects and landscapes that are as simple and two-dimensional as possible, while still evoking a sense of three-dimensional form.

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Landscape Elements

SoYeong Kim has been constructing illusionary images through an expressive painterly style that maximizes the effects of light. In her work, darkness deepens in response to illumination, while the gaze emerges with heightened clarity. The areas of light, rendered as empty spaces within the composition, possess a translucent, screen-like texture—prompting viewers to reconsider the very nature of the image.
By sensitively capturing the boundary between the image projected onto fragmented elements and the image generated by light itself, Kim seeks to illuminate the essence of visual experience and the moment an image comes into being.

Overload Image

“Morning has dawned” expresses the change in perspective that reproduces the insect's sight is resurrected as dreamlike and uncanny images that transcend both flat and three-dimensional space. The artist works in a manner that composes a short story with curiosity about mundane life. The artist represents the moment when all scenes become unstable by imagining the vision of insects that are repeatedly the creation and extinction. In this process, she investigates the physical properties and brushwork of materials and attempts various visual experiments by dividing the canvas surface in organic relation. Through the unfamiliar perception of familiar materials and the alteration and exaggeration of unique hues and shapes, the audience might perceive the object of their gaze as an active component of the environment. 

Morning has dawned

This limited edition by Philippe Parreno is a unique object consisting of a custom-made plexiglass box, a special, clothbound edition of the Revue and its accompanying booklet and a double-sided print of Parreno’s Iceman (2020), 2023, in two stages.

Cahiers d'Art

Philippe Parreno, Limited edition including original artwork

Luke Park creates a new beauty through the aesthetics of imperfection and minimal expression on an empty canvas. The artist, who majored in Business at Hongik University and received a master's degree in Arts and Cultural Management from the graduate institution, is claimed to have been interested in traditional Japanese culture for a long time. In particular, the Japanese dry garden culture, known as Zen Garden, influenced his current style of painting. Instead of incorporating incidental components in his works, he attempts to convey the meaning solely through the flow of brushstrokes. Exploring the true nature of life, the artist reveals via his works the necessary approach to life in our materialistic society. 

Nights of Seasons

Bac Jungwon is an artist who continually captures and reflects on extraordinary moments found within repetitive daily life through her paintings. She frequently paints watercolors focusing on the theme of 'withering flower vases', capturing the ephemeral moment when a perfectly poised flower starts to lose its original color and vitality. Beyond a simple still life, this imagery becomes a metaphor for the frailty of human life. Following the painter's destiny of capturing fleeting moments, she becomes an observer of everyday life and documents this process. 'Lonely flower' serves as a continuation of these works, narrating the tale of a flower that, while graceful, is in its most grotesque stage as it withers. Park captures the frail, twisted shape of the flower, reminiscent of thin, long fingers, and the faded hue of its petals on a large canvas, exaggerating and boldly representing it. She pours, rubs, wipes, and scrapes paint on the canvas, utilizing a technique that conveys the beauty and simultaneous dread of the notion of death.

Lonely flower

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Trésor, Now, 보물, 지금

RCB Experimental Art Lab

Simulation Field

Passionate about prints, Lee Ufan had, for many years, the desire to succeed in creating an extremely long etching. He wanted to push horizontality to its limits. It was at Michael Woolworth’s studio that he was able to realize this dream. Confronting himself, with all his physical strength, to the hardness of the steel plates and the vastness of their length, he created two different works as two ways to explore an infinite trajectory. Together an artistic, physical and technical feat, these impressive etchings are the result of a very intense cooperation between the artist and the entire workshop team.

Untitled (II)

Artist Park Younghwan continues a painting practice that merges imagination with architectural composition, rooted in the tradition of East Asian landscape painting. Through variations of ink, hanji (traditional Korean paper), blue ink, and dense black ink, he layers subtle tonalities onto a monochromatic surface, juxtaposing nature with geometric forms, and figures with symbolic elements within a single pictorial space.
Within these landscapes appear perfect black spheres, modernist Western buildings, entangled branches, and figures drawn from memory — together constructing an imagined order that coexists with the artist’s personal sense of temporality.
The sphere, Park’s fundamental unit, serves as the most symbolic element within his compositions. Each varies in size and depth of ink, tracing the passage of time across the canvas. The spheres embody both the artist’s presence within multiple moments and spaces of his life’s journey, and the visible traces of his continual pursuit toward an ideal form of existence.

Gallery Kabinett

When I Sank Down

Gyubin Seong draws her paintings based on the fun, interest, and curiosity about the neighbors she meets in her daily life and their surroundings. She adds her imagination to memorable events to reconstruct images. She creates stories that include not only what can be observed visually but also clues from other senses like hearing and smell. She looks at each object in detail and aims to observe and depict them carefully, so that the touch and memories of the objects can be conveyed to the viewer. However, she tries to deliver the form, atmosphere, and texture she felt by fumbling through her memories, even if the perspective collapses and the shape distorts, rather than using a stereotyped description method.

Light a candle

오토니엘에게 꽃은 자연의 경이로움을 넘어 살아있음을 일깨우는 매개체입니다. 꽃의 의미와 상징을 반영해 세상을 새롭게 바라보는 통로로 삼는 그의 작업은 많은 이들의 공감과 사랑을 받아 왔습니다. 아투에서 만나는 “더 문 로즈(The Moon Rose)”는 2019년, 파리 루브르박물관이 영구 소장을 결정한 그의 회화 연작 〈루브르의 장미〉를 모티브로 해 그 의미를 더합니다. 순수하고 영원한 사랑, 그 꽃말처럼 자신의 정열을 만개하는 장미는 보름달 모양 거울에 담겨 서정적인 분위기를 자아냅니다.

For Jean-Michel Othoniel, flowers are not just natural wonders but also mediums awakening the essence of life. His work, which reflects the meanings and symbols of flowers, offers a fresh perspective on the world and has garnered widespread empathy and love. "The Moon Rose" at Artue is inspired by his series "La Rose du Louvre," a collection permanently housed at the Louvre Museum since 2019, adding depth to its significance. It captures the essence of pure and eternal love, symbolized by the rose in full bloom, set against the backdrop of a full-moon-shaped mirror, creating a poetic harmony.

The Moon Rose

This issue presents unpublished photographs of Picasso’s studio by big names in photography, and personal photographs from private collections. It focuses on the different techniques used by the artist through seven chapters: sculpture, drawing, ceramics, painting, tapestry, printmaking, and monumental sculpture. Scientific direction provided by Cécile Godefroy and Vérane Tasseau. Each chapter is accompanied by an interview with a contemporary artist highlighting the links between their practice and that of Picasso: Miquel Barceló, George Condo, Sheila Hicks, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, and Tatiane Trouvé.

Picasso in the Studio, Special issue Revue

Framing: Prints can be ordered float-mounted in oak-painted wood.

The Orbit of a Red Comet

<Twin Occurrences> is a piece from the project "Habitat," which signifies a study of the way flat paintings are displayed and their expansion into space. It represents an attempt to expand the domain of painting by applying the connection and method between the artist's current work and living in the same space and reconfiguring and relocating it to new spaces around them. The project centers on flat paintings and includes the surrounding living area and elements that influence them in the exhibition layout. By connecting with environmental elements, it amplifies emotions and often provides clues for conceptualizing future works through installation activities.

아르투(Artue)는 동시대 예술 현장의 역동성을 자양분으로 삼은 역량 있는 예술가들의 작품을 엄선하여 생동감 넘치는 미술의 본질을 세계에 알리는 데 헌신하고 있습니다. 예술가들을 위한 플랫폼 구축은 갤러리, 컬렉터 및 미술 애호가들을 연결해 지리적, 물리적 경계를 넘어선 총체적 경험을 제공하려는 아투의 핵심 미션과 연결됩니다. 아투를 통해 매력적인 미술의 세계를 발견하고 그 어디에서도 만날 수 없는 기회를 경험해 보시기 바랍니다. 

Artue is dedicated to bringing the vibrant essence of art to the world stage, presenting a curated selection of works by talented artists who embody dynamic contemporary scenes. By creating a platform for these artists, we foster connections among galleries, collectors, and art enthusiasts, offering an immersive experience that transcends geographical boundaries. Discover the captivating world of contemporary art through Artue and unlock unparalleled opportunities for growth, exposure, and success. Join us in celebrating the diverse and remarkable contributions of artists to the global art community.

Twin Occurrences

Space776 exhibits early to mid-career artists who work in a variety of mediums ranging from live multimedia performance art to traditional oil painting. The gallery accommodates artists from around the globe, taking their works to local and international art fairs such as Volta New York, Volta Basel, Art Miami, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and Art Busan. 
Space776 was founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2013. In 2020, the gallery relocated to its current residence at 37-39 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Space776 also opened a location in Seoul, South Korea in 2020 in accordance with the gallery’s mission to promote the international exchange between local New York artists and the Korean artistic sphere. 

우리는 여기서 반짝

Embrace the beauty within your imperfections.

RCB Experimental Art Lab, an innovative project by River City Bangkok, is more than just a gallery—it’s a dynamic space where artistic boundaries are pushed, and new horizons are explored. We encourage a variety of artists, both new and experienced, to "Explore" unexplored creativity, "Experiment" with ideas and stories from various art media, and "Exchange" conversations between Thai and international artists to spark new creativity. We also intend to provide a platform where artists, viewers, and collectors may share ideas and support. The talented artists ; Art Jeeno, Chonnapas Yokyai, FAHFAHS, Munins, Phichai Keawvichit, Tuagomstudio, Tum Ulit, and WAL, have all shown their work with us.

Piece of Me

Artist JaeBum Joo is a leading figure in the realm of pixel art in South Korea, garnering international acclaim for his distinctive vision. He has collaborated with an array of prestigious global brands, including Google, Starbucks, Nexon, Gentle Monster, Adobe, Uniqlo, Hypebeast, and entertainment giants such as SM, YG, and JYP. Through these partnerships, he has firmly established himself as a singular force in the world of illustration, all while pursuing his personal artistic endeavours with unwavering curiosity and innovation.

His work is deeply rooted in personal experience and perception. Having discovered his artistic identity through the 8-bit graphics of the cartoons and animations he grew up with, he has seamlessly woven nostalgia with contemporary technology to cultivate a style uniquely his own. For him, pixels are not merely a nod to retro aesthetics; they serve as a bridge between digital interfaces—such as animation and gaming—and the language of traditional painting, unlocking new dimensions of expression. In his hands, pixels transcend their conventional role as the smallest unit of a screen, becoming colour, form, and a sensory experience in their own right.

Jina Jung creates paintings and new media art that alter the invisible properties of changing water, wind and other elements in nature. She completed master's degree in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) MPS at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The artist takes photos of nature or collects such images from the web and stores of VR and 3D space software, then renders them into unrealistic sceneries in VR or video works. She then reassembles the flattened objects, or the visible and penetrable scenes seen in the virtual space on a canvas as a painting. Through the process of transforming and capturing a space that actually exists into an unfamiliar image, she provides an opportunity to consider the logic of subverted nature.

SoYeong Kim reflects on urban life through photos taken in daily life, capturing fleeting moments that evoke a sense of both illusion and emptiness. Her work is characterized by creating illusionary scenes by adding painterly ambiguity to real landscapes. She paints by repeatedly layering vertical strokes of acrylic paint on traditional Korean paper (Jangji). The unique textures created from the combination of Jangji and acrylic form the depth and richness of her works. The warm texture of Jangji contrasts with the cold, artificial texture of acrylic, and through the brushstrokes, these elements merge to create a dualistic atmosphere in her compositions.

AhHyeon Lee materializes the unreal world created from the perspective of insects into physical space. After receiving her bachelor's degree in Painting from Kyung Hee University, she continued a master's degree in Painting at a graduate institution. She has communicated with the public through her works with shifting gaze and dreamlike colours that transcend the two-dimensional and three-dimensional since her graduation. The artist began her work by considering the invisible or unrecognized vision in today's visual environment and raises the issue of the incompleteness of 'seeing' as we perceive its contents. She eliminates the human subject and creates a symbolic representation of the insect's gaze through painting, crossing the tension that results from the world of insects being repeatedly created and destroyed by others, as well as the feelings of disgust and dread of insects from a human perspective. In her investigation of insect traces, she examined and experimented with the physical characteristics of mediums and invited viewers to enter an imaginary environment.

Philippe Parreno is a French Artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s, earning critical acclaim for his work that spans a diversity of media, including film, sculpture, drawing, and text. Parreno’s work redefined the exhibition experience by taking it as a medium, placing its construction at the heart of his process.
Parreno has exhibited extensively and has work in major institutions worldwide. His presentation at Cahiers d’Art inaugurates a year of major exhibitions and projects, including solo presentations at the Leeum Museum in Seoul, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, and an important project at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.

Seasonal Night 1

Bac Jungwon has drawn compositional paintings that express the invisible emotions and minds of humans through various scenes encountered in daily life. After receiving a bachelor's and master's degree in Fine Arts from Kookmin University, she painted unusual, dreamlike, and dramatic situations, but in her mid-30s, she began to paint natural objects and everyday landscapes. Her paintings reveal the fragile psychology and feelings of contemporary people, which are concealed beneath the solid shell of civilization. The artist portrays difficult-to-express psychological levels through a variety of painting mediums, including sketching, watercolor, and oil painting. It defines creation as the discovery of remarkable moments in the repetition of her previous everyday existence and the transformation of the meaning into a material known as painting and reconstructs a daily life from her own unique perspective.

Sangnam Park has long pursued a practice that traverses painting, installation, and object-making,
tracing the “residues of emotion.” Through repetitive brushwork and layered surfaces on canvas and
found materials, he constructs what may be called the topography of the inner self. His works
balance spontaneous gestures with delicate materiality, creating a visual language where light,
texture, and emotion coexist in harmony.

Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, Chonnapas Yokyai (ฺBorn in 2000) is an artist graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, majoring in Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking at Silpakorn University. Her works are symbolic and transcendental paintings. Fueled by her interest in everyday life from a feminist perspective, her art endeavors to explore the answers with the societal framework she confronts. Through vibrant and surrealistic paintings and subtly veiled figurines, she casts a spell, inviting viewers to interpret and explore through their own personal experiences. Her art portrays a peculiar and twisted scape, inviting people to interpret and explore through their own personal experiences. 

Chonnapas became well-known among collectors from the group exhibition ‘Utopia’ (2024) at River City Bangkok and the group exhibition ‘Perplexa Scenario’ (2024) at Joyman Gallery.


Lee Ufan is a South Korean artist and art critic born in 1936 in Haman-gun on the southern Korean peninsula, then part of the Japanese empire. He moved to Japan when he was 20 years old, and developed a practice anchored in an Eastern understanding of the nature of materials together with an appreciation of modern European phenomenology. In 2009, the Japanese government honored Lee by conferring the Order of the Rising Sun for “contributing to the development of contemporary art in Japan.” In 2010 the Lee Ufan Museum, designed by Tadao Ando, opened at Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan. Lee has had major exhibitions worldwide, including a retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 2011. In 2014, he was selected for the contemporary art program of the Palais de Versailles, and in 2019 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC commissioned a site-specific installation for the museum’s plaza. Lee divides his time between Kamakura, Japan and Paris.

Ed. 7/10, 4AP, 3HC

Ed. 6/10, 4AP, 3HC

Park Younghwan has sustained a painting practice grounded in the tradition of East Asian landscape painting, combining imagination with architectural composition. Through variations of ink on hanji including cheongmeok (bluish ink) and dameok (dense, fully-loaded ink) he lends subtle chromatic strata to black-and-white surfaces, juxtaposing nature and geometric form, figures and symbols, within a single scene. Perfect black spheres, Western buildings in modern styles, tangled stands of trees, and figures recalled from memory all find their place on the picture plane, where a fictive order and the artist’s personal temporality are realised simultaneously within the landscape.
The sphere (gu), the artist’s basic unit, appears as the most emblematic object in the work, distributed across the surface in differing sizes and gradations of ink as though tracing the arc of elapsed time. It becomes, at once, the artist himself present in the many times and spaces of a life’s journey and the record of a process moving toward the most ideal form of living to which he aspires.

Gyubin Seong’s work is based on his everyday joy, interest, and curiosity about his neighbours. She is developing his potential through various artistic endeavours while studying for a degree in fine art at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology. She finds comfort and love in the insignificant moments of daily life, reconstructing them with his mind. Instead of a formal description, she frequently transforms shapes to capture the mood and feelings of the moment. She brings warm memories to the audience through sensitive observation and expression that evokes the senses of sight, hearing, and scent.

장 미셸 오토니엘은 프랑스를 대표하는 현대미술가로서, 그의 예술 작품은 주로 설치미술, 사진, 조각 등 여러 매체를 통해 표현된다. 삶에서 이뤄지는 다양한 만남과 문화에서 끊임없는 영감을 받는 그는 80년대 후반부터 이를 자신의 개인적 경험과 결합해 왔다. 특히 주재료 유리를 이용한 독특한 작업 방식으로 유명한데, 다채로운 색상과 크기, 투명성, 반짝임 등을 활용해 인간 존재와 관념, 삶의 의미를 다룬다. 영롱한 그의 유리구슬은 수공 과정에서 생긴 일부 흠집들과 공존하며 깨지기 쉬운 유리의 본래 속성을 동시에 연상시킨다. 오토니엘은 이를 인간 삶과 연결해 현재를 살아가는 모든 이들이 상처와 고통을 극복하고 세상과 마주할 수 있는 희망을 전한다.

오토니엘은 1992년 제9회 카셀 도큐멘타 초대작가로 주목받았으며, 2000년 파리 지하철역 개통 100주년 기념 프로젝트로 세계적 명성을 얻었다. 최근인 2019년 루브르(Louvre)의 요청으로 작업한 회화 작업이 미술관에 영구 소장 되었고, 올해 문화 발전의 공로를 인정받아 프랑스 최고 영예인 레지옹 도뇌르 훈장을 수상했다. 한편 그의 작품은 미국 뉴욕 MoMA, 뉴욕 브루클린 미술관, 파리 퐁피두 센터, 파리시립 현대미술관, 까르띠에 현대미술재단, 이탈리아 베니스 페기 구겐하임 컬렉션, 서울 삼성미술관 리움 등에 소장되어 있다. 

Jean-Michel Othoniel, a prominent contemporary French artist, is renowned for his works spanning various mediums including installation, photography, and sculpture. Drawing continuous inspiration from diverse encounters and cultural experiences since the late 1980s, he blends these influences with his personal experiences. Othoniel is particularly acclaimed for his unique approach using glass as his primary material, employing a spectrum of colors, sizes, transparency, and shimmer to explore themes of human existence, concepts, and the essence of life. His luminous glass beads, coexisting with imperfections from the handcrafting process, reflect the fragile nature of glass, symbolizing hope for all to overcome life's challenges and pain.

Othoniel gained international recognition as an invited artist at the 9th Documenta in Kassel in 1992 and furthered his reputation with a major project commemorating the centenary of the Paris Metro in 2000. His recent achievements include permanent inclusion of his painting series by the Louvre in 2019 and receiving France's highest honor, the Légion d’honneur, for his contribution to cultural development. His works are housed in numerous renowned collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, and the Louvre Museum Paris; Museum of Modern Art and New York Public Library, New York; Boghossian Foundation, Brussels; Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Budi Tek-Yuz Museum, Shanghai; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art. Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles. Exceptionally prolific throughout his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

Heejoon Lee creates abstract paintings from images of the natural world. In 2012, he earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Sculpture from Hongik University, and a master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Glasgow School of Art in 2014. In this way, the artist collects, edits, and brushes the accumulated experiences and daily images obtained from travels from close surrounding to distinct locations, and incorporated them into geometric shapes. The composed instant images add the texture and time of the accumulated paint to generate a new space on the canvas. In addition to the photo collage and thick matière geometric shapes in <The Tourist> in 2020, the artist shifts his focus from minor objects to the surrounding landscape and extends the visual experience beyond abstract painting to the experience of space in which architecture and painting coexist.

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Based on an interest in 'how a wishing heart manifests in daily life,' Seokwoo Chung visualizes the energy emitted when a being strives toward something. He is fascinated by the flow of consciousness formed from cause and effect, and by the culture of wishes permeating the mundane. Drawing inspiration from the fundamental cultures of various religions, his current work extends the realm of the canvas by basing it on painting and incorporating installations in space. He implements a device that amplifies the characteristics of each, by going through various processes with painting works that correspond to the nature of specific spaces or places.

Drawing the organic form of plants in nature with a detailed sense.

Peachful, an artist and storyteller whose delicate linework evokes the warmth of childhood fairytales and offers a gentle embrace to every feeling you’ve ever ticked away.

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