Date: November 30th, 2025 to March 3rd, 2026

Venue: Hall 14, 4F, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan)

Organizer: Guangdong Museum of Art

Exhibition Producer: Wang Shaoqiang

Curator: Park Chul Hee [KR]

 

 

Latent Images: Hidden Truths — Abstract Art from China, Japan and South Korea illuminates the deep logic and spiritual core of East Asian abstraction within the tension of time and the unseen. Rather than presenting only terminal forms, the exhibition foregrounds processes of emergence: color answering void, matter colliding with chance at the threshold, and the body intersecting time to generate meaning. Abstraction thus exceeds immediate visual pleasure to become a path of praxis and reflection.

Bringing together works by fifteen artists from China, Japan and South Korea, the exhibition spans from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. From the abstraction of landscape structures and traces of writing, to the deployment of symbols and grids, to water-drop imagery and the repeated layering and polishing of paper and burlap fibres, wood and lacquer, the participating artists explore, through diverse media and pathways, how abstraction can bear the weight of time, memory and spiritual density.

 

 

Wu Guanzhong

Spring and Autumn   

Ink on paper    

147cm × 190cm

1986

Collection of GDMoA    

 

Tan Ping

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas

120cm × 100cm

2023-2025

 

Yang Liming

2023 No2w.200cm×150cm

Oil on canvas

200cm × 150cm

2023

 

Lee Ufan

From Point

Oil on canvas

145cm × 112.6cm

1982

Ha Jung-woong Collection, Gwangju Museum of Art

 

Kim Tschang-Yeul    

Water Drop

Acrylic and oil on canvas

195cm × 160cm

2013

Collection of Gwangju Museum of Art

 

Kim Deok-Han

Overlaid Series No.22-180-03

East Asian lacquer on panel 

240cm × 170cm × 5cm

2022

 

Tsuyoshi Maekawa

Untitled 150302

Oil and burlap on canvas

227.3cm × 181.8cm

1987-2013, 2015    

Courtesy of the artist and Whitestone Gallery