Eine kleine Nacht

Gyungsu An

July 6 — September 18, 2022
The Museum of Moscow and the Triumph Gallery

The exhibition will bring together more than thirty works from the series of the past five years and will raise the topics of hectic everyday life, the loss of the future and the complex structure of memory.

The Museum of Moscow and the Triumph Gallery present Eine kleine Nacht, a personal project by South Korean artist Gyungsu An. The exhibition will bring together more than thirty works from the series of the past five years and will raise the topics of hectic everyday life, the loss of the future and the complex structure of memory.

Sea-Lake
2019

The Museum of Moscow and the Triumph Gallery present Eine kleine Nacht, a personal project by South Korean artist Gyungsu An. The exhibition will bring together more than thirty works from the series of the past five years and will raise the topics of hectic everyday life, the loss of the future and the complex structure of memory.

The name of the project goes back to the name of Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", which literally means a little night song. Gyungsu An captures the nights as we are used to seeing them — dark, mysterious and a little unsettling. He depicts trivial objects and spaces, fragments of erasing landscapes, places and objects of memory — recognizable and therefore guaranteed to evoke emotions. The artist often photographs scenes of everyday life, trying to convey emotions "mirrored" by air, light, sound, temperature and textures, at the same time isolated and dispersed. "Without realizing it, I seem to be able to see my feelings through the landscape," Gyungsu says.

Fountain
2019

The name of the project goes back to the name of Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", which literally means a little night song. Gyungsu An captures the nights as we are used to seeing them — dark, mysterious and a little unsettling. He depicts trivial objects and spaces, fragments of erasing landscapes, places and objects of memory — recognizable and therefore guaranteed to evoke emotions. The artist often photographs scenes of everyday life, trying to convey emotions "mirrored" by air, light, sound, temperature and textures, at the same time isolated and dispersed. "Without realizing it, I seem to be able to see my feelings through the landscape," Gyungsu says.

The new project is based on chamber and even intimate works, parts of fragmented landscapes. They will be complemented by a huge composite canvas "Windy Day", typical of Gyungsu An scale. A special place at the exhibition will be occupied by a series of miniature "portraits" of light bulbs. Written in complete darkness, they became a concentration of artist’s experienced emotions. Gyungsu captures the elusive, disturbing everyday life and the associated fear of change, the uncertainty of the future, and the loss of something important.

Sign of
2019

The new project is based on chamber and even intimate works, parts of fragmented landscapes. They will be complemented by a huge composite canvas "Windy Day", typical of Gyungsu An scale. A special place at the exhibition will be occupied by a series of miniature "portraits" of light bulbs. Written in complete darkness, they became a concentration of artist’s experienced emotions. Gyungsu captures the elusive, disturbing everyday life and the associated fear of change, the uncertainty of the future, and the loss of something important.

The architecture and exhibition solution of the project will enhance the atmosphere of the night: the viewer will find himself in complete darkness and will be able to wander between fires, lamps, lanterns and rays of light depicted with photographic accuracy.

Gyungsu An’s first solo exhibition in Moscow was held at the Triumph Gallery in 2017. The exposition at the Museum of Moscow will continue a long-term project, within which the Triumph Gallery, in collaboration with other institutions, presented exhibitions of Korean contemporary art to the Moscow audience.

Curator: Kristina Romanova

Truck
2018

The architecture and exhibition solution of the project will enhance the atmosphere of the night: the viewer will find himself in complete darkness and will be able to wander between fires, lamps, lanterns and rays of light depicted with photographic accuracy.

Gyungsu An’s first solo exhibition in Moscow was held at the Triumph Gallery in 2017. The exposition at the Museum of Moscow will continue a long-term project, within which the Triumph Gallery, in collaboration with other institutions, presented exhibitions of Korean contemporary art to the Moscow audience.

Curator: Kristina Romanova