Reading art with Na Hee-duk and Kim Yeon-su... Sehwa Museum of Art to host “The Eye That Sees in Reverse”

[Financial News] A lecture exploring art through the perspectives of poet Na Hee-duk and novelist Kim Yeon-su will be held. The program will also include an exhibition tour, a film screening and a photography workshop.
On the 21st, according to Sehwa Museum of Art, operated by the Taekwang Group’s Sehwa Arts and Culture Foundation, the program “The Eye That Sees in Reverse,” accompanying the “Georg Baselitz” exhibition, will run from the 24th through November 28. It consists of 12 classes over six weeks.
On the first day, participants will tour the exhibition with a docent and then attend art historian Yoon Hee-kyung’s lecture, “Turning Painting Upside Down: The Unsettling Beauty of Baselitz’s Art.” On the 31st, following a lecture by Kwon Geun-young, a culture desk reporter at the JoongAng Ilbo, participants will watch the film “Georg Baselitz” at Cinecube.
On November 21, Na Hee-duk will explore the relationship between art and literature in a talk titled “The Artistic and the Poetic.” On November 28, Kim Yeon-su will give a lecture on “The Cicada That Flew Out of the Painting.”
The participatory program includes a November 7 workshop, “The Eye of Today,” with visual artist Eom Ji-eun. Participants will take photographs using disposable film cameras. Other lectures will cover topics including images and museums, disaster imagery, and collecting contemporary art.
Since 1969, German artist Baselitz has painted figures and landscapes upside down in an effort to focus on painting itself rather than the stories within the paintings. The retrospective at Sehwa Museum of Art in Jongno-gu, Seoul, highlights about 60 years of his work through 46 paintings, sculptures and drawings, and runs through December 27.
A museum representative said, “We hope this will give participants an opportunity to step outside their familiar perspectives and discover and appreciate art in their own way.”
The program runs every Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m., and tuition for the full course is 200,000 won. The museum is accepting 30 adults on a first-come, first-served basis online. Applications are being accepted on the museum’s website through the 23rd.

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