The Korea Times
CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong Province — Painter Bang Hai Ja, long celebrated in France as a visionary “painter of light,” is finally receiving a large-scale institutional exhibition in Korea that aims to move her work from the realm of mystical cult favorite into the country’s modern art history. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will open “Bang Hai Ja: Sowing Light Across Heaven and Earth” at its Cheongju venue on Friday, marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and France. The retrospective, the first dedicated to Bang at a Korean national museum, brings together 67 works and about 100 archival materials spanning from her early experiments in the 1960s to the meditative light-filled abstract paintings of her later years. More than half of the works are loans from major French institutions including Centre Pompidou and Musee Cernuschi in Paris, with many being shown in Korea for the first time. “Previous exhibitions (in Korea) were mostly organized while the artist was alive, so there were limits to what would be shown,” curat
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