From October 13th to December 31st, 2011, La Galerie Particulière will present a two-part retrospective of the work of Byung-Hun Min (b. 1955 in Seoul). The photographer’s portraits and nudes will be on display from October 13th to November 20th, followed by his landscapes, from November 24th to December 31st.

With previous exhibitions in large museums across the world (Seoul, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Paris), Min’s photographs, “have constituted for the last thirty years a singular body of work which reveals what he considers to be the very essence of his country: simplicity and silence.”

These are the motifs apparent throughout the retrospective’s different series. The photographs have been printed on carefully selected paper in order to emphasize the unique visual texture of his work.

The first half of the retrospective will be dedicated to the human body, and will feature recent portraits from 2008 to 2010. The second half will present images from several of his landscape and nature series of the past twenty years: Weeds, Deep Fog, Snow Land, Sky, Tree, and Flowers, including his latest ocean series, Sea.

As the philosopher and art critic, Yves Michaud, wrote in the catalogue for the 2011 Deep Fog exhibit at the Hanmi Photography Museum, “the landscapes of Byung-Hun Min border on the abstract, the beaches a delicate, almost monochrome black and gray... In the contemplation of the artist’s photographs, we are drawn into a very delicate mystery, a kind of serious game in which we pass from what makes little sense to us, to something that, suddenly, makes sense within us.”

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

RÉTROSPECTIVE

Byung-Hun MIN

Partie I : Portraits et Nus
13 octobre au 20 novembre

Partie II : Paysages
24 novembre au 31 décembre

La Galerie Particulière
16 rue du Perche
75003 Paris
Mardi-samedi: 11-19h
+33.(0)1.48.74.28.40
info@lagalerieparticuliere.com