Swiss artist Nicolas Party has unveiled a new solo exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul. As his first show in Korea, the show will present a wide survey of work, spanning painting, sculpture and the site-specific installations that Party has come to be known for over the past decade.
Dust is centered around themes of longevity and the existential threats facing nature and civilization. Party is revered for blending tropes from art history through a surreal vernacular that he achieves through pungent oil pastels, often recreating entire exhibition halls into fantastical worlds that radiate with a mysterious and often beguiling charm. His latest show will comprise of 48 existing works, including 20 new paintings and five large scale pastel murals alongside Leeum’s permanent collection.
The climate emergency has become a poignant conversation across all sectors and certainly one ruminated on by Party, from his first museum solo in Germany to a recent exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York. “We believe, and we feel, that we are at the end of our human path as global warming brings us to ecological crisis, but this feeling has been almost a constant, from Noah’s Ark and various apocalyptic tales in the Bible to the nuclear bombings of World War II,” Party previously said.
Dust will open on August 31 and be on view in Seoul until January 19, 2025.
Leeum Museum of Art
60-16 Itaewon-ro 55-gil,
Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea
